its been over a month since i have been in fresno. i am so homesick right now. i just want to sit down in my big red couch while watching TFC with my mom. i want homemade food that taste bland because my parents are trying to get healthy. i want to play with my fatass dog as he tries to jump onto that green recliner my lolo used to sit on. i want to wake up to my mom's voice because its time to go to church. i want to play on my piano in the living room where no one really can hang out in. i want to see my high school friends and get in n out on the corner of nees and blackstone. i want to walk around riverpark and talk about how much fresno has changed. i would rather drive the 3.5 hours trip home than be here trying to study for a quiz.

inspiration

It's tough to work in community because a lot of times this means that you're not getting paid, everything is 'in kind,' and you're dealing with the positive stress for the sake of seeing something from beginning to end watching it all unfold before you, watching it take root and grow only to come back to learn it's gone deeper and further than you've ever imagined. All in the name of 2 words: NON PROFIT. That means a LOT of it, if not EVERYTHING, comes from your heart, your blood, your sweat, your tears.
- Tina Barlolong