"I have an agenda..."

This was a statement made to me by a friend tonight, over wine and the delicious treat of wheat thins and hummus. We were talking about everything and anything really, and he discussed one of the small agendas on his list. An agenda that had the possibility to create change in a person.

As he left, I went to my computer and began watching a few shows on hulu (as is the case with my life) and afterwards I stepped outside into the soon to be Fall filled air, and I began thinking, "What is my agenda?"

We all are there, right? Wondering what our purpose is in life? (Though I will say to this, I have apparently found the individual who has--as he puts it--cracked this code (literally 50,000 lines of code) and can apparently answer the large question of: What am I doing here? Another blog to come, once I've had my reading with him). But anyhooo.... back to the agenda.

I have wanted to do many things in my life. In high school I knew I was going to be a concert promoter. In the early beginnings of college, I intended on owning my own business. I have wanted to be a baker, an actress, a photographer, a writer, an editor, an oral historian... the list goes on.

I have wanted to do...

But really, the question should be... what do I do naturally? What am I good at? What do I enjoy? What are the things that inspire? What is my agenda for change?

The answer is really quite simple when I break it down... I collect stories (memories or moments to be exact). I listen and I write them down. My agenda is collecting and sharing these stories with others.

This blog has gone through many changes from when I first started it. It has progressed from those few photographs with a sentence of explanation, to a girl who will write about anything that goes on in her day or her mind (i.e. telling people about my odd and macabre dreams). To a combination of my writing and baking skills. I use it as a way to document my thoughts, but also to work on my writing/storytelling.

Currently, I bring small snippets of daily tales that I find intriguing (or somehow connect with the odd life I find myself living). Tonight though, I would like to ask for your help with my agenda of collecting stories.

If you could ever be so kind as to leave a comment attached to this post of a story I could write about, I would be so ever grateful. I don't care if it's a memory you have with me, a story you like that I tell and for some reason I haven't posted here, or something I need to spend a bit of time doing research to write about. Whatever it might be, post it here and I will write more. I will collect more stories. I will abide by my agenda.