by emma | May 30, 2007 | Faith
This has kinda been floating around in my mind for a week or two now. Don’t know what I think of it, if I even like it, or if it’s finished…. but here it is for now…
When day has turned to night
When nothing else is light
When all seems lost
And I cant find my sight
All I’ve got
To get me through tonight
All I’ve got
To make it seem alright
All I’ve got
To find a joy once known
All I’ve got
To trust your love for me
Open my eyes
Let me view the dawn
When hope returns
Your goodness I shall see
All I’ve got
To get me through tonight
All I’ve got
To make it seem alright
All I’ve got
To find a joy once known
All I’ve got
To trust your love for me
Strengthen my heart
To gaze upon your glory
One glimpse of you
Is all i need, so
Help me
Get me through tonight
Help me
Make it seem alright
Help me
To find a joy once known
Help me
Trust in your love for me
[Emma Boyd, May 2007)
by emma | May 30, 2007 | Uni
Mathematics 1Y this morning. Hard.
Computer Science 1P (Python programming) this afternoon. Pretty good.
Off to my bed to try recover. See you in a while!
by emma | May 29, 2007 | Uni
This is my life right now… my coffee mug says it well… scunnered.
One more day until I’m free…
by emma | May 28, 2007 | Everything Else
I am trying to find a way to purchase one of these. Please help me! Noone seems to have a wide-angle lens that I could borrow (really want it for America in July/Aug) so I am trying to find a way to afford one… without using all my student loan for next year! Anyone got any ideas?
How about buying some of my pictures if you’ve got the cash?? That’d help a student with an expensive hobby (hobby? maybe it’s more than that) out.
by emma | May 27, 2007 | Social Justice, Words
“The American flag stands for the fact that cloth can be very important. It is against the law to let the flag touch the ground or to leave the flag flying when the weather is bad. The flag has to be treated with respect. You can tell just how important this cloth is because when you compare it to people, it gets much better treatment. Nobody cares if a homeless person touches the ground. A homeless person can lie all over the ground all night long without anyone picking him up, folding him neatly and sheltering him from the rain.
School children have to pledge loyalty to this piece of cloth every morning. No one has to pledge loyalty to justice and equality and human decency. No one has to promise that people will get a fair wage, or enough food to eat, or affordable medicine, or clean water, or air free of harmful chemicals. But we all have to promise to love a rectangle of red, white, and blue cloth.
Betsy Ross would be quite surprised to see how successful her creation has become. But Thomas Jefferson would be disappointed to see how little of the flag’s real meaning remains.”
[Charlotte Aldebron, 12 years old]
HT: Trevor
DISCLAIMER: This was written by an American child. That is why the American flag is mentioned. While pledging allegiance to the flag does not happen in the UK, I fully believe that we echo these sentiments in a multitude of other ways. Thus I am not being anti-American!
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