Sometimes, I wonder if the green I see is orange. No, for realzies. I could be looking at the deepest, most vivid emerald and understand why it is beautiful. You could see something flat, pale, or just different. Yet we have both been taught to call this color “green” and agree on its beauty, so we must be viewing the same color, right? But, I wonder, what if my green is your orange and we've simply learned to see differently?...

Being healthy. This is an action that has been boiled down to diet, exercise, and hydration (always more water). Through social media and the news, the idea of health is now something of strictly superficial value, with one body, one face, one gender, and one race dominating the definition of this health. My friend is one of the healthiest people I know; she eats clean, exercises, and consumes more water than a fish. Yet she has struggled all her life...

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Three words most are taught at a young age to explain being good samaritans to the Earth. As we grow up, we learn repeatedly that humanity has been anything but good to our planet; she is weak from all the materials taken from her, weighed down by the waste humans spit back out, overheating from the burden of it all. The overwhelming issues plaguing our earth make those three little words seem almost meaningless. I know they...