Please don't mistake

Please don’t mistake my difficulties for defeat, my kindness for weakness, my silence for emptiness, my confidence for arrogance, my prayerfulness for conceit, or my lack of height for lack of heart

Invictus Writers

So this is a video made last year about the project I will be apart of this year. So excited! Its kind of weird because not only for this project, but in so many ways and places I have been told to write about myself lately. And I don't usually like writing (or talking) about myself. Being pushed to do so is good.

Don't get me started on what it means to be alive

If you aren’t outraged

If you aren’t wondering why the constellations under your skin don’t match the ones in the sky

If you haven’t tried to put peaces of a tattered hearts back together

If you aren’t searching desperately for truth and sharing everything about it that you’ve found.

Then you aren’t paying attention

Keshia Smith News Scholars Bio- for class

Keshia Smith

News Journalism Major, Creative Writing Minor

Keshia Smith originally got interested in journalism in high school when she joined Y-press, a youth news organization that writes a bi-weekly article for The Indianapolis Star. After also getting involved with JAWS, a similar program through The Indianapolis Recorder, she knew she wanted to major in journalism.

Though she specializes in writing, during her time at Ball State she has enjoyed learning to use multiple forms of media to tell a story. She has taken classes on photojournalism and video editing to increase these skills.

During her years at Ball State she has been a features reporter for the Ball State Daily News, a graphic designer for BallBearingsOnline.com, a member of The Writers Community and a member of the Black Media Association, Ball States chapter of the National Association of Black Journalist. Recently, she had gotten involved with the The Invictus Writers (Theinvictuswriters.com), a small group of Ball State students who are attempting to write a publish a non-fiction book.

During the summer of 2011, Keshia accepted a summer internship with The Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper that allowed her to apply the things she was taught in class to the real world. Covering issues such as education and events such as Indiana Black Expo, she had 25 articles and six photos published in The Indianapolis Recorder. During the Summer of 2010, she volunteered to spend ten weeks in Chicago with the not-for-profit origination Imagine Your Impact, when she helped create website fliers and advertisements.

Keshia aims to use the storytelling skills she learned as a journalism major and creative writing minor to make a positive influence on the world. She lives by Albert Einstein’s quote, “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”

"The Boy Least Likely To" and "Sleeping at Last"

On a less somber note, I have found another strange music obsession in 'The Boy Least Likely To' Listen, It will make you smile.







And, Sleeping at Last makes beautiful music as well. Just listen

Troy Anthony Davis Death Penalty

Am I the only one who thinks it’s odd that Casy Anthony, who was clearly guilty, was declared not guilty because there “wasn’t enough evidence”?

And then on the other side of the spectrum you have Troy Anthony Davis, who may very well be innocent, and he’s being executed tonight, even though there isn’t enough evidence to prove his guilt.

People do not know everything and will not get it right all the time. I don’t believe a person should be the judge over another persons life and death for any reason. I am forever and always against the death penalty, no matter what.

Thoughts

I can never find a box that I fit in just right. Maybe that why I don’t want to share these words with you. I am not marketable. Words need an audience to matter, and you’ll tell me these don’t belong anywhere at all.

I am 21-years-old and only 5 feet tall. I am a Christian and I believe that gay people should be able to get married. I am black and I listen to “white” music, apparently. I am a democrat and I am pro-life. I am an introvert and I’m not shy.

I feel too much. I dream too much. I know too much and I know nothing at all. I think to much and I don't write enought and I try to find God everywhere.

But my words hide inside my mind, refusing to sick to paper where they’d be exposed.