My Darling Cristina....A Treasure so Very Rare

My darling Cristina

Today you've become a young lady

You're becoming a woman

Here on your 13th birthday


I want you to know

That the beauty I see in you

Is that beauty that is IN you

And I love so much about you


What's on the outside will never compare

To the treasure so very rare

Of the person radiating their inner beauty

And brightening the world by allowing it to shine out freely


We all have great inner beauty, honey, including you. I love you for yours, now and forever. And I promise to always see you as your most beautiful self.

- Love Dad




From: Odyssey Spirit ~~Chris tina~~
Date: Sep 18, 2007 5:37 AM


BEAUTIFUL

Each one of us has certain measurements to beauty. Each one of perceives beauty in a different way according to your values and according to your beliefs. Some people value looks and think it is what gives beauty to a person. Others think its morals which makes a person beautiful. Others will argue that beauty is in wisdom and they might be right too. Yet real beauty is inner beauty. It is your inside that counts not your outside. Have u ever met someone who you thought was super hot or very attractive but after a couple of times where you had to communicate with that person you no longer found them attractive or they lost the charisma they had in the beginning? It is because you got to know a bit of the real person in front of you. Their inner self that is not as attractive as how they look. On the other hand have you ever met someone who you thought was ugly when you saw them but after getting to know them you found they were truly attractive and beautiful? This is because the inner beauty of this person is shining out covering their flaws that might have made you think they were ugly earlier. When judging beauty look inside. Not everyone can see inner beauty and that is why you should always wait and make the right judgment. Most beautiful things in the world are unseen. This is why we always have our eyes closed when we dream when we cry when we kiss and when we imagine! All these beautiful things come from WITHIN...Inner beauty is the only beauty that exists and outer beauty is just something that helps and sometimes misleads. So look within and you'll discover beauty you never knew before...


chowk

posted by odyssey spirit~have a wonderful day~hugs

Hilarious Student Bloopers

These are actual student mistakes, unintentional ones, collected by Richard Lederer, a high school English teacher. These make me laugh, and then I remember this is the future of our country, and start to cry :-) (Just kidding. When things are wrong....DO SOMETHING TO MAKE THEM RIGHT.)

Don't sit around and complain, anyone can do that. But, can you go about fixing the problem with a sense of humor? That not only makes the problem more likely to be solved, but much, much more enjoyable. I have had enough near-death experiences to appreciate the opportunity to wake up and say, "I'm still here? Cool!"

This great appreciation for life today has helped me to care less about what people think of me, and more about how I can help people think more of themselves, while I am here. My greatest concern being my children and my students. It's a pretty cool way to live.

The History of The World (from 8th grade through the college level)

Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies, and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation.

The pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain. The Egyptians built the pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube.

The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?"

God asked Abraham to sacrifice Issac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Issac, stole his brother's birthmark. Jacob was a patriarch who brought up his 12 sons to be patriarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.

Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

....Well, back to working on my thesis, which is on education. I'll post more when I take another break. Till then, keep laughing, or crying. The US emerged as the world's greatest power just a short 60 years ago after World War II. China is predicted to take our place in as little as 30 years. India might surprise us all and beat them to it (greater democracy and faster growth to compensate for China's greater numbers).

Half our economy comes from the math, science, and engineering fields. After kicking out and keeping out many foreigners contributing to this part of our GDP after 911, it seems as if the real terrorism of that event is just beginning.

And with fewer and fewer American students entering the math and science fields because they don't "get it" and therefore don't find it interesting, it's as if we're throwing away this incredible freedom we've gained via economic prosperity and burying our heads in the sand in ignorance.

Hence, another example of where I just don't see ignorance as being bliss. What you, I and especially our children don't know, harms us all. "A's" in school don't mean a thing if that knowledge cannot be broken down and used to solve open-ended problems.

The world is full of problems, and we need heroes to solve them. The longer I teach the more important I see my job. When someone now asks me what I do for a living, with a Bruce Willis-like smile on my face I say, "I wake up grateful that I'm alive, get on my motorcycle, and go make heroes."

"The gods favor the bold." - Ovid

Make a hero today. Go believe in someone.

- Adam Stuart