Combating Shades of Light

The sun parts the shade and rays of light rest peacefully on my cheek. The glint and shimmer of the light echoes all around and breaks the darkness of shadows and gloom. They shout with joy and dance and illuminate and set the world ABLAZE. The mellifluous expressions of happiness lasted only for a moment. Time shifted, the light danced away and fathoms upon fathoms of darkness overcame the light - overwhelming the place where golden beams had once resided.

-- Spontaneously decided to write this down. I have this spot on my deck where I like to do my homework JUSt about at 3:30ish until around 5ish. Its all shadowy before then but as the sun shifts, the light filters in and seemingly invades the darkness...until darkness falls everywhere, and I have to go inside.

Hope you like it! :)
Michele

aspirations and ambitions

Today I was doing somethinking and I wondered (quite randomely) how many miles he average person walks in a lifetime...well I looked it up and found out that he average person (given that they started walking at about the age of one and lived until they were 80 years old) would have taken around 2,000,000 steps (thats a heck of alot of steps. Think about that number for a few minutes) and therefore (assuming that the person in question takes has an average stride) they would have walked around 108,131 miles in a lifetime.

Now, I gave that statistic a little thought and I challenged myself to walk across the Usa or maybe around the entire earth just walking and speaking the gospel to everyone and anyone I encounter. I mean, wouldn't that be soo awesome to just put all responsibilities and worries of everyday life aside and just walk and travel and preach? To live for and by Christs provision with your every waking breath. It just sounds amazing to me. It would take a lot of faith but everyday you would be living for Christ with your whole existence.

I've decided I'm going to do that one Day. Ill just drop everything and just go.

Posting - Summer Ambitions/Bucket List

Below is a list of things I want to do this summer.... but in a sense its my bucket list.... no I'm not planning on dying this year, I just want to do all these things as soon as I can :)

learn pottery making
press flowers for art and notecards
learn to play the drums
learn how to blow glass
get hunting license hunt with my cousin (Hunter is his name ;) in the duck blind
go to the rifle range with my uncle
go to nyc
Learn how to sail a sail boat by myself
Learn how to surf
Go to canada again
go to lake michagan again ( i wanna camp out there ;)
get colored contacts
re-decorate room
get polaroid film for my camera

go to charleston (i wanna go and work and live there with my cousin for the summer)
watch wizard of oz
go to savannah in the summer and do photo shoot!
go to grand canyon
see presidents faces in rock at mt. rushmore

i REALLLLLLLY hope i get all these things done. :) its a longggg running list. haha

Stats

The world's oldest rose is located Hildeshiem Cathedral in Germany and is thought to be over 1,000 years old. (I wanna go see that! The gardener must have an amazing green thumb. I can't even keep my roses alive for more than a week!)

Every year in New York City, 1,600 people are bitten by other humans. (go figure...o.0)

Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make. (Ironic, eh? I didn't really think about how it costs money to make money!)

Currently....

My life is in utter chaos. After the weekend, school hit me HARDDDDD. I wasn't exactly...prepared for how much homework I needed to do. At first, I thought "I only have 2 subjects to get done on Monday, I should be fine"...little did I know that one of the assignments I needed to accomplish included writing a 2-4 page ESSAY!..by Tuesday. Well, it was a rough draft, but......still. I woke up early at 5 in the morning on Monday in order to get my Chemistry done. The rest of the day I read.....and read....and read...and read and read and read Frankenstein until late at night. I didnt finish until 6 in the morning.... And did I mention that this week I have drama rehearsals every day from 6-9???? That's when I get the majority of my homework done.. hehe.

Anyways. This is pretty much just a post to complain about how unfortunate it is that I had a midterm last week, essays this week, three drama performances and tons more rehearsals and a 25-lines poem recitation due next week.

Hope you're all coping better than I am. :/

AnaMichele

C.R.E.A.M

Below are some of my favorite C.R.E.A.M quotes. :) Enjoy!

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
by Dr. Suess - an example of contrast

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring - an example of rhyme

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
by Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go! - another example of rhyme

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
by Maya Angelou - an example of echo

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone- an example of alliteration

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
by Charles Chaplin - an example of metaphor