Gratitude

I feel so blessed. Today has been a wonderful day.

I have an awesome family.
Mom, Megan, Rebecca, Logan, Dad
And Extended Family
I have a great home.
I have so many blessings
I have excellent/ wonderful teachers and leaders.
Dr. Barlow, Frau Melluish, Mr. Christensen, Brother Carter, Mr. Cahoon, Mrs. Fosse, Ms. Sidwell, and Mrs. Martinez
My Sunday school teacher, Young Women leaders, the Priesthood holders
 My Friends and Examples
 And All others who have impacted my life ) past and present.
I have a great name. 
I have direction and I have purpose. I have a mission.
I have a engaging and enjoyable high school called Karl G. Maeser.
I have wonderful education.
I live in a wonderful land and I am a citizen of a great nation.
I live in safety. I live in peace. I live in freedom.
I live near the mountains.
I love to do service.
I love my school's 'Socratic' discussions.
I love books.
I like being me.
I ;ove modesty.
  I love my school's uniform.
     It helps people be more appraochable.
     It brings a unity that wouldn't be there without it.
     Everyone can be comfortable around others.
I love the mountains, the sky, the stars, the sun.
I appreciate my bed.
I appreciate my worthwhile homework
I appreciate the help I've been given and been getting to prepare for the next phase of my life.


Special Notes:
Thank You Mrs. Fosse. The current art project where we are making a display from a news article in groups of 3 with a director, producer, and publicist has been amazing for me. (Ours [Emily, Sabrina, and I] is about the man who used a bionic leg to climb the highest skyscraper in Chicago)
Thank you Emily and Sabrina for helping us get our project going. This could have been just another project, but it's not. I feel inspired and empowered from it in becoming a leader by having the role of the director. Thank you for strengthening and building me up--not unto pride but in confidence to start becoming a better leader.
I feel like I've made progress in my journey through this life. So thank you.


Thank you, Heavenly Father for these gifts. Thank you for this wonderful life.
Thank you, Jesus Christ for your atonement and sacrifice. Thank you for making peace and the plan of Happiness possible.

It's another school year

I am so... terrible at blogging. Maybe, and I say this with skepticism, I'll be better this year. (The first term is already long gone. This year is flying with hardly a chance to catch my breath.

Notes to self

http://www.artandwriting.org/
look this up

http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/Contest
I submited a piece...so I need to keep tabs.

Semester finals are nearly done! For the Language Arts final, I submited an essay to http://billofrightsinstitute.org/Contest Everything went somewhat smoothly, everything considered.
I haven't posted in a while because I have busy preparing for these tough finals.

Fun

Already?

It seems when one is truly dedicated to do something, time flies. The end of the school week is here and I actually found myself disappointed that there is not school tomorrow. I'm trying to make an effort to go above and beyond what is required in the steps of learning that I might yield my education to my advantage. I used to limit my knowledge in the realm of books, well because I wanted fun books, I was uninterested in the realm in the classics. That has changed now - I am willing to read such books that contain so much knowledge to learn to understand. I'm trying to study classics now that I might become a better scholar, a better person.

Books....

Oh this is life written
That these pages shared
Contain true education

Little poem that just sparked that is written above.
I recently read How to Read a Book The Cure for the Common Education by Oliver DeMille and Brad Bolon. I would strongly recommend reading it for the scholar of any age or education. It might seem a cheesy title but within those pages writ is advice and the guide to learning of statesmanship. It's a really useful tool as well as being well written words to keep you from dieing of boredom that a long dull textbook might invoke.

The sprouting tree of education

School is here again and currently I am in the first week of limbo, but I cannot help anticipating the knowledge and understanding that I will gain through dedication. School will calm down after the first few days, already the quest for true knowledge and true understanding otherwise known as education is on...

I can't wait.