Today I read a new book called ''Lily in full bloom. ''One day tinker bell Made an invention. She didn't tell the name. Soon enough fairies where making inventions. Lily ended up making panglories, but her friend bumble nocked them in a well.
Lily made more. Though her other friend took water and some seeds with her. It made every flower in pixie hollow black and white. Soon they started to grow again. Then every fairy in pixie hollow was happy. Ashleigh
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We must have peace over power. That means don't hit first. It also means peaceful mind. One time my sister did the f sign to me. Lucky me, nobody was there.
So I did it back.That was when Seth was not here, which was a good thing. You must have peace over power every day. Just so you know. Ashleigh On my seventh birthday i got two little toys. From my sister! One is named Blue. The other is named Dumbo. I was so happy.
I still am.Blue is a blue owl. Dumbo is a pink, and purple elephant. I don't know where she got them from. They are so cool. Ashleigh Today is a bad day. It is not because i didn't do all of my schoolwork. It is because grandma is sick. Also because my Aunt left. We also had to get a wheelchair for my Grandma.
It was bad. My sister Maddie agreed. We had a talk about it. Then we texted for a little while. Ashleigh I had a good week. My Aunt came up so I did my work fast. We played Barbie for about 2 hours. Then the dog had a seizure. So we took care of that.
The next day, we went in the basement. While we were down there we brought some of Dad's cars up. We went to Costco later. I ate something that didn't sit well in my tummy and unlucky for me, I threw up. Now my Aunt needs to clean her car. It does not look good. Sorry! Ashleigh Today I read a new book called ''Hattie, Tom, and the Chicken witch.'' One day Hattie Rabbit was walking with Linda Chicken. Then they saw a sign that said ''WANTED DOGS CHICKENS AND PIGS TO ACT IN EASTER PLAY. SEE TOM RABBIT.'' Hattie was mad because there was no Rabbit.
What is a Easter play with no Rabbit she though.So she talked to tom and he said ''Well okay. When the time came to put on the play tom received a message that Linda fell and hurt her leg. Lucky for them Hattie new the story. It was about a pig named Dan that steals all the Chickens eggs to fry because he hated Easter. They told Dan the eggs where for Easter. He din't hear them though. Then one of the hens have an idea. They would call the Chicken witch. So they did and told her the problem. Paint them she said. So they did. It worked. After that Hattie went to see if Linda was okay. She was. Ashleigh Today I read a new book called ''The Story of Jonah.'' One day a man named Jonah heard God calling to him. He told him to go to Ninevah. Jonah didn't. Jonah tried to hide on a boat, but God found him.
God sent a wind. The wind made waves. The captain asked Jonah what to do. He said throw me overboard. So they did. God also sent a big fish to eat him. After three days the fish blew Jonah onto the shore. This time he did go to Ninevah. Then he went back home. Ashleigh Today I read a new book called '' The Talented Clementine.'' One day Clementine herd her teacher talk about putting on a talent show Saturday night. Unluckily for her she din't have any talents. So when she got home she asked her dad if he had noticed any talents lately. No I have not he said.
Finally she found one. It din't work. The tap dancing din't work either. Saturday night came and she sat in a seat and helped everyone. After that they went out to dinner. Ashleigh Last Saturday I went down into the basement. Wall I was down there I found my old toy . IT was not a doll. It wasn't a ball. It was a little toy tree house.
I was so happy. I have not played with it for 2 years. When I found it I did not play with it for 2 days. Now I am playing with it. Ashleigh "Intelligence- not because you think you know everything without question, but because you question everything you know."
I love this quote, as I am someone who aspires to learn something new every day. I believe that no one should ever give up or stop learning- as there are countless things in life to learn or at least improve upon. I think one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone thinks they know everything, and because of this belief refuses to listen to reason. I see so many people do it around me, and I honestly commend my dad for instilling the desire to learn in me from a young age. My dad and mom raised me on the saying "you can learn something new every day", and I try to abide by it. Even if it's something small, I try to absorb SOME sort of knowledge. For example, today I learned how to apply a wristlock from a technique that doesn't usually end in a wristlock! It's a small piece of knowledge, but it was new to me nonetheless. I find that small bits of knowledge often ball together and result in one big discovery at the end of the day, or at least contribute to you learning something a lot bigger. For example, knowing how to apply this wristlock from this move could help me learn a more difficult technique farther along down the line... or on a more serious level, help me in a fight. And so learning is with many other things. Simple math tricks are memorable for when you need to learn something in geometry, or algebra. Shortcuts in baking are applicable to many different recipes. Small bits of online trivia can lead to interesting conversations, and even open up people who know more about obscure topics. A simple trick to read between the lines of a story, can inspire you to want to read deeper into the human mind... so learn everything you can. If someone has wisdom to offer you, accept it... because as my dad always say, "the years teach much that the days never knew". Today, I'm not going to be talking about the quote that titles this post. I just needed a headline that somewhat ties in with what I'm going to be speaking about, and I'm going to be speaking about resolving conflict. My opinion is that if someone actively wants to try and make things better, you should at least give them a chance. If they mess up after you give them a chance, then don't waste your time on them... but be open to the idea of resolution.
My little sister and I get into disputes here and there- she gets on my nerves, I get on hers. I push her buttons, she pushes mine. It gets tiresome. After a particularly long and disruptive argument today, I decided to try and resolve things by spending some time with her. Not only did she straight up turn my offer to spend time with her down, she stomped upstairs saying to "not bother her again". I respected that, but it got me thinking and inspired this blog post. I tried speaking to someone about the issue I was having and was automatically told that I'm the source of the problem. Well, here's a small news flash- friendship is a two way street, even with family. I've spoken about this before when referring to parents and how they raise their kids. It's a two way street. The same applies to siblings. If you constantly don't give your sibling a chance to fix things, chances are that things won't ever get better. Even if your sibling is the cause of the problem (as I was told I was), it doesn't mean they don't deserve a chance to be forgiven. I've stated before that I'm an incredibly forgiving person. In fact, my forgiveness is one of my fatal flaws because sometimes, I'm too forgiving. It can get me into rough situations. This isn't the point. My point is, I don't think I should be told I can't try to fix things... even when I am the problem. I'm not trying to deny that fact or step around it- I'm just asking to be allowed to at least try to fix things. No one should be denied their chance to resolve things... particularly not on the first try. - Maddie Earlier today, I was on tumblr scrolling around and link-surfing. I came across a comic strip while looking, and I thought it conveyed a really deep message... so I wanted to share it (along with my interpretation of it) with readers. The title of the comic is 'We Go Forward', and it comes from (don't laugh) OwlTurd Comics. I saw it through a reblog on Tumblr and I thought it was a great representation of how most parents want more for their children than they had for themselves. The comics show a pixel adventurer, trying to advance in what's assumed to be a platform game. The adventurer finds he can't cross a large gap in the map, and so he sits still where he is and slowly builds a house for himself.
A female adventurer comes along, and then it's shown that the two have a child. In the comic, as the child grows, the father can be seen teaching the child to jump- trying to prepare the child for the gap outside their home when the time comes. The father wants the child to be able to achieve what he could not, and reach the other side of the gap... and continue on. Soon enough, the child is grown... and able to make the jump across the gap. As the child makes the jump, she exclaims that she did it to her parents. Upon landing on the other side of the gap, she realizes that it is impossible to go back. I feel like this is such a great metaphor for life. Your parents encounter struggles within their lives, and then try to best prepare you for those struggles within your own life. They want you to be able to succeed where they could not. You learn to surpass their struggles, but in doing so, you get too caught up within your own life... and then you realize that no matter how much you want to, you can't go back. Even all the preparation in the world cannot make up lost time, and I think that's the message of this comic. It's a representation of the struggles of a parent preparing their kids for life, only to lose them to time... and I think it's pretty damn amazing. - Maddie |
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