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Almost breaking my ankle on a hill in Central Park

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Almost breaking my ankle on a hill in Central Park

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A whitewater rafting trip on Yellowstone River

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A whitewater rafting trip on Yellowstone River

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"Freedom lies in being bold" - Robert Frost

I believe that the only way to be free and to stand apart from the crowd is to be totally and unforgivably bold in everything you do. I believe that I should go with my gut and stick with it always.

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5. The Never Ending and Ever Changing Seasons, a poem by Maggie Nowak

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5. The Never Ending and Ever Changing Seasons, a poem by Maggie Nowak

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Sometimes I think magnificent thoughts and dream spectacular dreams

I am the seasons with colors of green and brown and red whistling by me

I am fall, spreading my message of continuous change

I am winter, embracing the transition and the cold and creating something beautiful

Allowing myself the opportunity to hibernate and fantasize for what is to come

Sometimes I awake and find myself in a world I do not know

I see new life emerging from everywhere around me

I am Spring, bumbling and blossoming with a new beginning

I am Summer, fiery with the fantasy of a thousand midsummer nights

Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer, never ending and ever changing

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"Someway, baby, it's part of me, apart from me"
You're laying waste to Halloween
You f*cked it friend, it's on its head, it struck the street
You're in Milwaukee, off your feet

...And at once I knew I was not magnificent
Strayed above the highway aisle
(Jagged vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles

3rd and Lake it burnt away, the hallway
Was where we learned to celebrate
Automatic bought the years you'd talk for me
That night you played me 'Lip Parade'
Not the needle, nor the thread, the lost decree
Saying nothing, that's enough for me

..And at once I knew I was not magnificent
Hulled far from the highway aisle
(Jagged vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles

Christmas night, it clutched the light, the hallow bright
Above my brother, I and tangled spines
We smoked the screen to make it what it was to be
Now to know it my memory:

...And at once I knew I was not magnificent
High above the highway aisle
(Shake it, fake it, stick with us)
I could see for miles, miles, miles

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I challenge myself to send my verse out and into the world. I have a strong voice that is relentless and unforgiving. I will spread my message of positivity and equality wherever I go, and work to be a positive force. I do not mind being a small, small part of something bigger because I know that by changing a small part makes all the difference to the bigger whole.

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In the poem "O Me! O Life!" Whitman questions his own purpose in life and what his existence means in comparison to the big picture. The poet wonders if his life spent on earth is worthless and if he will have any impact to the world later on, or if he will just fade away into the background noise. Mr. Keating in the movie answers the question Whitman asks himself by preaching that each one of his students that they have a verse to contribute to the world and it and it has the opportunity to be powerful.

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"Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation."

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"For, nature is not always tricked out in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today."

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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."