I just thought that I'd post a couple of the poems that I've written for you all to read...
It's About Time
Nov. 26 2006
Watch time fly out the window
Minutes pass as each second goes
Life is a breath you don't want to waste
You get closer to death the more you haste
When you were young all you wanted was to grow up
Now that you're old you want the ageing to stop
Don't waste your time chasing the things you can't get
Or batting a ball that can never be hit
Seconds to minutes
Hours to days
Weeks to months
Years to decades
Time goes so fast
Each day cannot last
Before you know it
A whole year is passed
Each moment you're living
Is a gift God's giving
Don't waste a second
A minute
A day
For time is flying
Flying away
Silver Lining
December 2006
Every dark cloud
Has it's own silver lining
Do don't waste your day
complaining and whining
Think of the good things
Never the bad
Don't covet the things
That can never be had
Ignore all the worries
Don't think about pains
Don't count all your losses
Focus on your gains
Your life may not be perfect
Neither is mine
Think of the good things
Find each dark cloud's silver line
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Homework Go, Homework Come
I FINALLY finished the last school project of the year and am now ***OFICIALLY*** on summer break!
Every year on the first morning of summer break, I'm always sitting around wondering what to do. It's funny how that never fails to happen. I hope for summer break all school year, then when it comes I havent the faintest of ideas what to do with myself. This year I have the answer to that question: More Homework. Yup, that's right. My summer days will be (partially) spent doing homework. It will be kinda fun though because it's homework from a subject that I chose, this time. I'm learning to play the guitar. I just had my first lesson this evening and it was great. My mom thinks that I have a lot of home work to do, but I don't mind. If I'm ever going to get good enough to be able to put all the songs I've written to music, it's the only way to go.
Every year on the first morning of summer break, I'm always sitting around wondering what to do. It's funny how that never fails to happen. I hope for summer break all school year, then when it comes I havent the faintest of ideas what to do with myself. This year I have the answer to that question: More Homework. Yup, that's right. My summer days will be (partially) spent doing homework. It will be kinda fun though because it's homework from a subject that I chose, this time. I'm learning to play the guitar. I just had my first lesson this evening and it was great. My mom thinks that I have a lot of home work to do, but I don't mind. If I'm ever going to get good enough to be able to put all the songs I've written to music, it's the only way to go.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Time & Sunburns
I'm not going to type a whole lot because it's getting late and I have church in the morning. I've got three things to say:
1. If you havent read it, get a hold of a copy of Lucy's report about time and read it. I just finished and it's really an incredible report! The subject of how time started had always ended up confusing me, but she really explains it all extremely well.
2. If you ever go swimming out doors, wear sunscreen. I always hate putting it on 'cause the kind we have is always gooey and greasy and gross, but it's a good idea. Believe me. I might as well be the Red Baron right now!
3. If you havent yet, scroll down and check out the "Camp Pope" video I made...and drop me a comment on it :-)
1. If you havent read it, get a hold of a copy of Lucy's report about time and read it. I just finished and it's really an incredible report! The subject of how time started had always ended up confusing me, but she really explains it all extremely well.
2. If you ever go swimming out doors, wear sunscreen. I always hate putting it on 'cause the kind we have is always gooey and greasy and gross, but it's a good idea. Believe me. I might as well be the Red Baron right now!
3. If you havent yet, scroll down and check out the "Camp Pope" video I made...and drop me a comment on it :-)
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Camp Hope 2007- the video
I just finished making the video/slideshow presentation of Camp Hope. Enjoy!
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
At Work With No Work: The Pics
Me & My Volunteer Partner, Danielle... The Summer Reading Program has a detective theme this year, as you can see.
Here are a couple pics that Danielle took of me.
If you know me at all, you'd know this pose is totally me :)
This pose was purely Danielle's idea o_O
At Work With No Work
I look around at the papers scattered around the desk...Odd, nothing to enter in the computer today. For the first time since June, there is no work to be done at the summer reading table. Typically there were long lists of books that we were to enter into kid's summer reading program accounts. I look over at my friend and volunteer partner, Danielle. She's looking up the last names of random people in her computer. That was something her and I always did when there was a break in work. Strange I know, but it could be rather fun. Especially if you found some one with a really weird last name...Or one that has nearly no vowels in it.
After growing tired of searching the name data base, we just sat there and talked. After what we both thought seemed like quite a while, we looked up at the clock. 2:40 PM. We hadn't even been there a whole hour yet. Over the next hour people came and went, and one actually did provide some work for us to do. Unfortunately, we couldn't log into her account to add in the books that she had read. Later some friends whom I've only met twice came to the desk. Loraine and Talitha. Although I don't really know them very well, I like them a lot. Up until this day, I haven't seen Loraine when she wasn't sopping wet at the water park. So that was different.
You know how weird it is when you see some one out of the place you normally see them in? It's just strange, like seeing the president at the bowling alley or something. That's how it was seeing Loraine outside of the water park.
I talked to them for a few minutes... They wanted to know if I could look up people's phone numbers on there computer there. Apparently there was some cute guy that they know whom they wanted to call up. Sadly for them, I could only get info on people who were in the Asotin Library's reading program. They guy they wanted to know the number of lived in Kamiah.
When it was 4:00, Danielle and I's shift at the reading table was over. So she left and I was there for another hour until my dad came to pick me up. So in that spare time I usually alphabetize my portion of the kid's section (there's another set of volunteers that organizes the kid's section). It turned out that Jeanette (one of those volunteers) had already done my section for me. That was nice of her :) So since that wasn't needing to be done I went a head and worked on laminating flannel-board characters that Mary (children's librarian & my boss) is going to use with story times. That went well and I even got to take a short break to stuff my face with some of Mary's home made blue-berry coffee cake--Yummmm!
All being said and done, it was a great day at my volunteer job- even if there was barely any work!
After growing tired of searching the name data base, we just sat there and talked. After what we both thought seemed like quite a while, we looked up at the clock. 2:40 PM. We hadn't even been there a whole hour yet. Over the next hour people came and went, and one actually did provide some work for us to do. Unfortunately, we couldn't log into her account to add in the books that she had read. Later some friends whom I've only met twice came to the desk. Loraine and Talitha. Although I don't really know them very well, I like them a lot. Up until this day, I haven't seen Loraine when she wasn't sopping wet at the water park. So that was different.
You know how weird it is when you see some one out of the place you normally see them in? It's just strange, like seeing the president at the bowling alley or something. That's how it was seeing Loraine outside of the water park.
I talked to them for a few minutes... They wanted to know if I could look up people's phone numbers on there computer there. Apparently there was some cute guy that they know whom they wanted to call up. Sadly for them, I could only get info on people who were in the Asotin Library's reading program. They guy they wanted to know the number of lived in Kamiah.
When it was 4:00, Danielle and I's shift at the reading table was over. So she left and I was there for another hour until my dad came to pick me up. So in that spare time I usually alphabetize my portion of the kid's section (there's another set of volunteers that organizes the kid's section). It turned out that Jeanette (one of those volunteers) had already done my section for me. That was nice of her :) So since that wasn't needing to be done I went a head and worked on laminating flannel-board characters that Mary (children's librarian & my boss) is going to use with story times. That went well and I even got to take a short break to stuff my face with some of Mary's home made blue-berry coffee cake--Yummmm!
All being said and done, it was a great day at my volunteer job- even if there was barely any work!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
What's There to do at 1:03 AM?
As the girl lay in bed, she looked around the room...darkness. It must not be morning yet. Suddenly blinding light flashes through the room, but only for a second. "What could it have been?" she wondered. She decided to look out the window and see. As she made her way out of bed she happened to glance at her clock radio. 1:03 AM. it read. She looked out her window twards the neighboring town on the other side of the river just in time to see another flash. It was a lightning storm...
And that my friends, is how my morning began.
... She watched the storm until it died down, which was about a half hour later. She even tried to get some footage of it on video, but sadly, her attempts failed. There was something about lightning that she liked very much. It could have been the way the glowing forks of lightning spread over the night sky, perhaps it was the low rumble of the thunder, or maybe it was just for the fact that it was something different from the ordinary. Whatever the reason, she found them quite enjoyable, unlike the dentist appointment that would haunt her later that day.
And that my friends, is how my morning began.
... She watched the storm until it died down, which was about a half hour later. She even tried to get some footage of it on video, but sadly, her attempts failed. There was something about lightning that she liked very much. It could have been the way the glowing forks of lightning spread over the night sky, perhaps it was the low rumble of the thunder, or maybe it was just for the fact that it was something different from the ordinary. Whatever the reason, she found them quite enjoyable, unlike the dentist appointment that would haunt her later that day.
Monday, July 23, 2007
The Saga Begins...
So I thought I'd try my hand at this blogging thing. We'll see how it all works out :) I'll be posting lots of random stuff on here (I didn't name my blog Random Writings for nothing!). I'll probibly be posting some of my poems and songs that I write as well as stories and what ever else happens to pop into my head. For now I shall go and attempt to see what sort of things I can edit on here...
Thus being posted, the first of many Random Writings and the weird & wacky saga has begun.
Thus being posted, the first of many Random Writings and the weird & wacky saga has begun.
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