March 2011
5 posts
Blog #6
An Albatross to me is something that is given to us to help us through tough situations and get through hard times, but we take them for granted, push them aside, and then we suffer because of the poor decision we make to ignore it. Some albatrosses that we see in our lives are all around us. Some examples are guidance counselors, coaches, parents, exercise and eating healthy, and studying....
Blog #5
An Ode to Sleep
At the end of a day in which i work
I ache and burn, from toe to eye
My body is a shaking towerÂ
That will soon from from the sky.
As the sun sets in the far east
With a gaze of pink and orange and red
My mind soon will be in a feast
Of dreams and hopes, and books i have not yet read
The ancient old friend of everyone who’s been
They long too meet him at a...
Blog #4
In class we read and commented openly about how being both young and old have their advantages and disadvantages. This discussion was similar to the material we learned in class. We learned about the “lost youths”, children in Uganda who live right in the middle of a war every day of their lives, and life of children in the poetry of William Blake. The “lost youths” was all...
Blog #3
“My Hometown” is a song by Bruce Springsteen about how as a little boy, he cherished the town he grew up in and he took pride in it. As the boy grew up to be a father, he realized that the memories that he had form his childhood were the best memories of his life and that he needed to hold on to those memories for his entire life, even with the modern day changes going on around him....
Blog #2
Everything new seems to be wiredÂ
Phones, T.V.’s, video games, and iPod’s
They glisten in the people’s eyes just like gods.
But these bright new things are soon to expire.
They all are great, but hide a true wonder:
The nature of the world that some hold dear.
Where kids can play and laugh and not have fear,
But new ideas, bury them down under.
We need to come back to the...