College essays for BYU application. What have been the most important and valued friendships in your life? To this day there are only a few people in my life who know everything about me. I feel a deep sense of gratitude for friends in my life. These women have been unconditionally supportive, loving and understanding when no one else was.

In San Francisco, a renown Chicana muralist, Patricia Rodriquez, literally shoved a paintbrush in my hand, tucked a mural sketch under my arm, told me to climb the scaffold and said, Paint this. What began with volunteering to paint a white wall, transformed into becoming a community muralist. Working in the streets, painting murals in neighborhoods, we were a motley crew of students, artists, neighbors, men, women, seniors, children, black, white, Latino, gay, straight, left, right.

Hey how you doin lil mama lemme whisper in yo ear. This post sort of changed my life. My self esteem drops faster than my battery life. A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there. One day, whether you.