blurb.com

Ok, so this started out as a class project for my creative class but now I can't sleep without coming up with more ideas.....

I think this website is such a cool idea (Griffin maybe project 4 for next year?)

There is even a blog book section.


CHECK IT OUT!

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Choices

So much pressure is put on us to make choices. Every day, we make so many choices, from what to wear, to what to eat, to what to priortize. Some days you make bigger choices. Those days when you sign up for classes and declare majors, choose colleges and pick careers, change cities or end relationships. But, how much do all of these choices that we put so much thought and effort and stress into really matter? Is it really like the movie Sliding Doors, where you miss the train and your whole life is changed? Some people like to think that life is laid out from the beginning, that God or some other universal force has a plan for each one of us. Is life more like the movie Serendipity, where you can move and change and think you've taken one path but really you've circled back to where you started because that's where the universe wanted you? It is so hard to tell how much influence we have over our own lives, and how much of our lives is luck and chance. But, I guess that you just have to keep making those choices, continue making your plans, and hope that if the universe is going to have it's own plan for you, that it's a good one.

Worries....

Pakistani’s are getting ready to end Marshall law, which will make it a safer place for my Dad's travel. He is waiting for the end so he can open a new office in Pakistan.

Christmas Time

It Reads that way because IT SELLS!
"It elevates the mood"
And puts one in the frame of mind
The proper attitude..
To lavish guests with wondrous foods
To buy, in spite of COST...
To act as if one knows what he is doing
When he's LOST!!
But Christmas is a frantic time....
For ME, and others too!
The buying gifts, the wrapping...
And all else that we do!!
It starts with DECORATING
The house, outside and in....
My dad strings cascading lights
While I, inside BEGIN...
To open up the boxes
Of my treasures through the years
Life wondering how they fared this time
(I try to quell my fears!!)
My SANTA CLAUS collection
Is such a great surprise!
I swear that HE is really is there...
I see those "TWINKLING EYES"!
Place them just where they should be
The rooms are getting full
Of characters and colors...
So bright where i was dull!
And this is what I LOVE the most.
The way these things appear!
One cannot help but feel god
When the HOLIDAYS are near!!
Of having this GOOD FEELING
With "programs" here...and running there,
We all are just left "reeling"!
And look, instead to CALMER times
When we might just SLOW DOWN
It seems so sad, but WE MISS OUT
On all that is around!!
And, therefore, I will make a PLEDGE
This year that we will start
Not just observing CHRISTMAS
But feeling it in the heart!!
By slowing down our pace a bit...
And SEEING sights around us
And through these basic, little acts...
Our problem will be solved
And what seems insurmountable
Will MAGICALLY dissolve!
I feel good already
Have I left something out?
Or was it just that SIMPLE
To turn this thing about?

- by the issue (finally brave enough)

Teddy

Can you believe a British teacher was arrested in Sudan after allowing her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed". The Muslims finally realized that she meant no insult to their God that they believe in. She is now on her way back to London. But can u believe the ridiculousness of calling a teddy bear anything and millions of people getting upset because of the name of a toy. I hope one day Muslims will understand our Western Ways.