Imprints in the Sand

“In order to leave footprints in the sands of time, you have to actually get up and do something. After all, who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time?”

~ Anonymous

I regret that I don’t know who wrote this quote, but I came across it while surfing the web several years ago and I still remember laughing so hard while trying to repeat it to my cousin that I couldn’t stand up straight. She thought I’d gone crazy. But really, there’s just something about the image of “butt prints in the sands of time” that just cracks me up. And it’s not only the fact that the quote was funny that made it stick in my head. It was the fact that, when you get down to it, it seems so true. Because no matter what we choose to do with our lives, the fact is that we all affect the people around us in some way whether it’s for better or for worse. Time isn’t just sand because we always seem to be running out of it, but also because we all leave our impressions in it as we go. It’s just our choice what kind of impressions we want those to be.

On that note, welcome to our blog. As aspiring writers and artists, I thought it was high time that my twin and I started one of these. But of course, as it is with most things, it was a lot easier to think about than it was to get up and do. I had to think long and hard about just what it was I wanted to write about. I told myself that it had to be fun but meaningful, something I could write often about, something more than my everyday life (which can really only be so interesting from one day to the next)—and the more requirements I added to the list, the harder it became to get started until it finally hit me. Thinking back, even before I started writing my own stories, I started collecting quotes. Usually, these would come from books that I read or listened to (being legally blind), but over the years I’ve expanded to the shows that we watch, lectures that we attend, or even just the things that people around me everyday have said. What better to write about than one of the most powerful tools in the world? Words.

Stories are created, relationships built and broken, and our perspectives on the world are shaped by words. In order to understand ourselves and one another, we need a language in which we can not only express ourselves but think about how that can be done. What we say and read and hear—all of it can affect us in unexpected ways. And so this blog will be focused around the words I have collected that have changed me, made me wonder, made me think, inspired me, or just made me laugh. I hope that as we go, you will also find something in these words to inspire or—at least—amuse you.