Our Time

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf,  "and so do all who live to see such times.  But that is not for them to decide.  All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

What is more important than this:  deciding what to do with the time given to us?  Living in the past, wishing we didn't have to do what we need to do, all this is time wasting.  Embrace what you have been given and the trials you have been challenged with and you will be stronger and get the better part in the end.  How have you spent your time?  Will you answer that question with regret?

An Argument For Star Wars

Recently we all celebrated Star Wars day:  May the Fourth be with you!  I hope you all spent the day wondering who you could share that wonderful phrase with (and simultaneously share the fact that you are a complete Star Wars fan!).
So, do you think that Star Wars is applicable to life?  Maybe not, but my little sisters do!  And I would have to agree with them.  Dark Vader is a play character, and not a good guy (can you believe it!).  And you know the theme for the Sith Lord?  Yes, my sisters made sure that they were dun-dun-dun-ing that while playing with this Dark Vader.  Not only does George Lucas have in impact on little children but John Williams creates such awesome music that 3- and 5-year-olds know and remember it!  What awesomeness is Star Wars!?!

"Do or do not, there is no try" -Yoda

Look What I Found!!

  

High Speed Bullet Photography

This is some pretty high-tech photography right here!  A bullet being shot through...I don't even know what!  I Love It!  WOW AMAZING!

Are You Bushy?

Bushiness

One of the wonderful words that exist in the English language.

Reminds me of Gandalf

The Newest Fashion

Everybody will be wearing them!

Braided Grass Ring

Dance and Dance some more

We love to dance.
Here's the proof!
DANCE

I am Victorious!

I have conquered the enemy, a vicious forest full of carnivorous plants that are only defeated by the chopping of their leaves to tiny bits.  It was a hard fight and several times I had to retrace my steps and begin anew.  But their ferocity is diminished and they are no more a threat to our castle that houses the princesses of The Bend.  These young princesses will grow someday to become the queens of the land and they must be protected from the plants that threaten to overwhelm the garden.
But for now, the hero has pushed them back and all the kingdom is safe again.

Toenails And Butterflies

I painted my toenails!  Aren't butterflies the perfect icon for spring?  And pastel purple, green, and pink just epitomize the spring feel!

Learn From Our Lemons

This is so great.  The newspaper article on this video was called making lemonade out of lemons.

Comment

I felt like going to a friend's blog and commenting.

Then I didn't see any recent posts that I had a comment opinion about so I came to my blog to comment here.
Well, I challenge all of you to comment on this comment.  And to make an interesting post out of this comment instead of sitting there, in your chair, keeping your opinion selfishly to yourself.

I wonder who reads the comments anyway?

Do You?

Some Not So Nice Poetry

A Dream Deferred

by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--and then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Some Very Nice Poetry

TO AUTUMN. (John Keats)
                                            1.
    SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
        Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
    Conspiring with him how to load and bless
        With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
    To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
        And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
            To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
    With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
        And still more, later flowers for the bees,
        Until they think warm days will never cease,
            For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
                                            2.
    Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
        Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
    Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
        Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
    Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
        Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
            Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
    And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
        Steady thy laden head across a brook;
        Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
            Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
                                            3.
    Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
        Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
    While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
        And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
    Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
        Among the river sallows, borne aloft
            Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
    And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
        Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
        The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
           And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Riddle

What is the surname of a male descendant of a man named Ray?

I'll give you a hint: he's the son of Ray.

Give up?

Okay, here's the answer! Rayson (raisin)

hehehe!

Scratch

I hear someone
scratching letters,
but I can't hear
the story they tell.
I myself
write down stories
and listen to
the tale they sound.
A new language
spoke by pencils
and mysterious
still to hear.
What new story
might be written
you can hear
but cannot tell.

Silvester

I love that name.

Happy New Year's Eve!! I hope you have the party of your life this evening!

Christmas

Merry Christmas! It is now boxing day and I am wishing you the best.
I had a wonderful Christmas that, though not quite what I expected. It was a great experience and everyone is happy and we all learned something, I think (I hope).
Now we get to look forward to the new year! This is my second blogging Christmas and here I am, looking back at the year and saying that I didn't blog enough but I sure did write in my journal!

Christmas Eve

It is the day before Christmas and all through the house,
Presents are hiding in corners and couches.
Tomorrow the children will all be gathered
and tissue paper, boxes, bags and wrappers
will cover the floor, the tables and chairs
as presents are given, opened, and shared.

Aren't you looking forward to it? No matter how much work it takes to get to that point, it is worth it to see smiles on your family's faces!
I just love Christmas!


Merry Christmas

Christmas Adam

Happy Christmas Adam everyone!!

You don't know what Christmas Adam is, you say?

Well,
Adam came before Eve.

Cheetah Fast

This is just hilarious, as well as kind of clever. I hope you like it!

Art and Shakespeare

Does this make you think of Shakespeare?















I didn't think so, what about indecision?