Always Smile...
Smiles are contagious. Help someone in a bad mood and simply smile at them. You will never ever know how much you have touched them with just a smile.
And not only a smile but any action at all could touch someone.
Personal story...
I was at Fry's with my mom shopping... and the entrance has potted flowers for sell around it inside... like right as you walk in...
So one of the pots was on its side and I stopped and picked it up and placed it upright... then got up and walked quickly to my mom... Well this guy walked past me as I was picking up the flower and he smiled. Big smile.
It just struck me... I honestly didn't think picking up the flower pot was that big of a deal and anyone could be affected by it... It just surprised me to see him smiling at me because I picked it up... or at least thats what it seemed like to me...
I'm sharing this because you never really know how your actions will affects others... and some people don't think about it, but I am asking you to think about how what you do affects those around you.
Spread Peace
Brooke
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The Host
The Host by Stephenie Meyer has been my latest book discovery. I have just finished chapter 5 and I couldn't go on until I said something about this one paragraph. It was the kind of paragraph you re-read at least 3 times because it is like "BAM!" it hit home. It truly is the most honest true thing about human lives today in one paragraph I have EVER read.
I haven't read it all the way through and already I am in love with this book. I want to share this one paragraph, but first I think you need a tiny tiny bit of plot. The host is a human body the parasite is an alien. So far this book has touched so much on the value of life itself. I am simply amazed. The paragraph that has amazed me comes from the alien inside this woman's body, it is the alien's thoughts. By the way it's page 47 if you wanted to look for yourself.
"But we were not wasteful. We did make whatever we took better, more peaceful and beautiful. And the humans were brutish and ungovernable. They had killed one another so frequently that murder had been an accepted part of life. The various tortures they devised over the few millennia they'd lasted had been too much for me; I hadn't been able to bear even the dry official overviews. Wars had raged over the face of nearly every continent. Sanctioned murder, ordered and viciously effective. Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their doorstep. There was no equality to the distribution of the planet's bounteous resources. Most vile yet, their offspring - the next generation, which my mind nearly worshiped for their promise- had all too often been victims of heinous crimes. And not just at the hands of strangers, but at the hands of the caretakers they were entrusted to. Even the huge sphere of the planet had been put into jeopardy through their careless greedy mistakes. No one could compare what had been and what was now and not to admit that Earth was a better place thanks to us."
I haven't read it all the way through and already I am in love with this book. I want to share this one paragraph, but first I think you need a tiny tiny bit of plot. The host is a human body the parasite is an alien. So far this book has touched so much on the value of life itself. I am simply amazed. The paragraph that has amazed me comes from the alien inside this woman's body, it is the alien's thoughts. By the way it's page 47 if you wanted to look for yourself.
"But we were not wasteful. We did make whatever we took better, more peaceful and beautiful. And the humans were brutish and ungovernable. They had killed one another so frequently that murder had been an accepted part of life. The various tortures they devised over the few millennia they'd lasted had been too much for me; I hadn't been able to bear even the dry official overviews. Wars had raged over the face of nearly every continent. Sanctioned murder, ordered and viciously effective. Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their doorstep. There was no equality to the distribution of the planet's bounteous resources. Most vile yet, their offspring - the next generation, which my mind nearly worshiped for their promise- had all too often been victims of heinous crimes. And not just at the hands of strangers, but at the hands of the caretakers they were entrusted to. Even the huge sphere of the planet had been put into jeopardy through their careless greedy mistakes. No one could compare what had been and what was now and not to admit that Earth was a better place thanks to us."
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Chambers of a Human Heart
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It’s all the same, in the chambers of a human heart
In the chambers of the human heart we hide our deepest fears.
In the chambers of a human heart we tear ourselves apart.
In the chambers of human heart does hatred fill.
In the chambers of a human heart is where the pain resides.
In the chambers of a human heart is where our sorrow lie.
In the chambers of the human heart is where the most could ever go wrong.
In the deepest chamber of the human heart resides an emotion, so strong it can conquer any other pain that traps our heart within.
We only have to try and find it beneath the chambers of pain.
We need to release this emotion that’s hardly seen anymore.
Love is needed by this world.
(I'm a poet, kinda. I write poetry a lot. I just gotta share once in a while. Enjoy
Brooke)
It’s all the same, in the chambers of a human heart
In the chambers of the human heart we hide our deepest fears.
In the chambers of a human heart we tear ourselves apart.
In the chambers of human heart does hatred fill.
In the chambers of a human heart is where the pain resides.
In the chambers of a human heart is where our sorrow lie.
In the chambers of the human heart is where the most could ever go wrong.
In the deepest chamber of the human heart resides an emotion, so strong it can conquer any other pain that traps our heart within.
We only have to try and find it beneath the chambers of pain.
We need to release this emotion that’s hardly seen anymore.
Love is needed by this world.
(I'm a poet, kinda. I write poetry a lot. I just gotta share once in a while. Enjoy
Brooke)
Friday, July 4, 2008
Failure
It's okay to cry especially when you fail, male or female, remember that. Life is too tuff not to cry. Cry and get it all out. And always be sure to know that no matter who you are someone loves you and you can talk to them anytime. holding back emotions can hurt yourself. It really can. Honestly I think everyone should take a self improvement class. I seriously do. Try to improve who are everyday. Set goals, write them down, succeed. I know anyone can succeed as long as they try. The impossible won't always be impossible. So never quit.
I have an idea I would like you to think about, as small toddlers we had to learn to walk. We would try and try so hard but always fall. we weren't born walking. We had to learn it. And we failed. Every single human being failed at least once at walking. We fell hard sometimes because we couldn't walk. I want to say congratulations to everyone who can walk or talk you didn't give up. You failed and failed but learned from those failures to succeed. Just imagine how much mankind wouldn't be able to do if we all just gave up on if it was too hard.
We were born to fail, and then to learn from those failures.
So a quote from ALexander Graham Bell, the claimed inventor of the telephone,
"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Don't let your failures get in the way. They really are a learning exprience. When you "fail" it's more like you learned how not to do something. =)
Just remember failures are good if you learn from them and do better next time.
Peace and love always
Brooke
I have an idea I would like you to think about, as small toddlers we had to learn to walk. We would try and try so hard but always fall. we weren't born walking. We had to learn it. And we failed. Every single human being failed at least once at walking. We fell hard sometimes because we couldn't walk. I want to say congratulations to everyone who can walk or talk you didn't give up. You failed and failed but learned from those failures to succeed. Just imagine how much mankind wouldn't be able to do if we all just gave up on if it was too hard.
We were born to fail, and then to learn from those failures.
So a quote from ALexander Graham Bell, the claimed inventor of the telephone,
"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Don't let your failures get in the way. They really are a learning exprience. When you "fail" it's more like you learned how not to do something. =)
Just remember failures are good if you learn from them and do better next time.
Peace and love always
Brooke
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
YOU CAN'T
Honestly the words "you can't" have been ringing in my ears. After a fight, everything seemed to crash down. Last night was awful, however this blog is not about me. So I won't go into any details, but I do need to say something.
When you are told "you can't" do something, DON'T believe it. never give up on your dreams. So many many people truged through life aimlessly. THey get up go to school/work, home, eat, sleep and then repeat. No purpose, get food on the table, do what they are told because they don't know any different. All around them people telling them "you can't!"
Well guess what I CAN!!! I am not and never will give up on my dreams. Impossible dream, maybe; but I want my dream so bad I'm willing to work forever for that impossible thing. You want to know my dream, my dream is that mankind as a whole gets more accepting, we don't judge others and there is the closet thing to peace in this world. THere will be NO murders, no rapes, no sexual molestation of any kind, nothing bad. Imposible it may seem so but I have to try to do something to fix the awful problems in this world. I have to, I live here and my family lives here and my friends and people I don't even know live on this planet. I can't let it go on how it is continually suffuring, people murdered, people miserable. I hate the pain in this world and I am going to try my hardest to make a difference. I have to.
When you are told "you can't" do something, DON'T believe it. never give up on your dreams. So many many people truged through life aimlessly. THey get up go to school/work, home, eat, sleep and then repeat. No purpose, get food on the table, do what they are told because they don't know any different. All around them people telling them "you can't!"
Well guess what I CAN!!! I am not and never will give up on my dreams. Impossible dream, maybe; but I want my dream so bad I'm willing to work forever for that impossible thing. You want to know my dream, my dream is that mankind as a whole gets more accepting, we don't judge others and there is the closet thing to peace in this world. THere will be NO murders, no rapes, no sexual molestation of any kind, nothing bad. Imposible it may seem so but I have to try to do something to fix the awful problems in this world. I have to, I live here and my family lives here and my friends and people I don't even know live on this planet. I can't let it go on how it is continually suffuring, people murdered, people miserable. I hate the pain in this world and I am going to try my hardest to make a difference. I have to.
A truth that affects us all
People don't want to see the pain the world is suffering. Global warming is real. It’s a real, awful truth and what’s being done about it? Absolutely nothing. Maybe people are unaware of the increasing climate, or some believe it will be a good climate change for the world, or perhaps they have given up hope because it’s pointless to be the only one fixing the problem that seems impossible to fix in the first place. Whatever the reason may be, efforts to relieve global warming are minimal.
It’s not an issue for most people living on the planet that is rapidly changing for the bad. According to Darren K. Clarkson’s survey called “Concern About Environmental Problems” that was taken in 2002-2003, only twenty six percent of the people surveyed thought that Global Warming or the greenhouse effect was a problem that was “a great deal.” Well, to inform the other 74 percent, Global Warming causes a climate shift with the entire planet that could be devastating. It’s a global problem, that effects anyone living on this planet, that you need to learn. Also for those who say the climate shift would actually be beneficial, as the earth gets warmer the ice in the North Pole and South Pole regions melt. The water from the ice has to go somewhere and that somewhere would be flooding low sea level towns where people live.
However, of that 26 percent who thought it was “a great deal,” it didn’t say how many were doing something about this issue. So who knows what’s being done from just the citizens?
The real cause of global warming is the gases that are polluted into the air mostly by factories and cars. So instead of reducing these gases, Matthew L. Wald suggests, in The New York Times Article, “Running in Circles Over Carbon”, that these gases be stored and reused elsewhere. “Emissions from coal-fired power plants already account for about 27 percent of American greenhouse emissions…” This would eliminate a lot of the pollution being spread into our planets atmosphere causing the global warming. The problem with this is the initial cost for the technology to be put in place is too much for companies to spend.
Other suggestions, like using solar or wind powered energy to cut down the carbon being polluted by coal burning energy source, are also too expensive. So companies are not doing anything about this problem.
Citizens are not concerned with this issue for the most part. Companies, that are primarily causing the problem, are also unconcerned. So again nothing is being done for the environment that is being warmed.
The problem will simply continue, as the people concerned about it continue to write out columns no one reads, as scientists research the subject, as people argue if it’s even happening or not. The facts are there, there is no denying it. However there is not a simple way to fix it.
While all the debate is going on about what to do to fix this problem, it’s only getting worse. The longer we put off this problem the more serious it will be. So now the only question about global warming anyone can ask is; “Do you care about your planet enough to do something to fix this devastating problem?” I wouldn’t simply answer this question, but prove it.
It’s not an issue for most people living on the planet that is rapidly changing for the bad. According to Darren K. Clarkson’s survey called “Concern About Environmental Problems” that was taken in 2002-2003, only twenty six percent of the people surveyed thought that Global Warming or the greenhouse effect was a problem that was “a great deal.” Well, to inform the other 74 percent, Global Warming causes a climate shift with the entire planet that could be devastating. It’s a global problem, that effects anyone living on this planet, that you need to learn. Also for those who say the climate shift would actually be beneficial, as the earth gets warmer the ice in the North Pole and South Pole regions melt. The water from the ice has to go somewhere and that somewhere would be flooding low sea level towns where people live.
However, of that 26 percent who thought it was “a great deal,” it didn’t say how many were doing something about this issue. So who knows what’s being done from just the citizens?
The real cause of global warming is the gases that are polluted into the air mostly by factories and cars. So instead of reducing these gases, Matthew L. Wald suggests, in The New York Times Article, “Running in Circles Over Carbon”, that these gases be stored and reused elsewhere. “Emissions from coal-fired power plants already account for about 27 percent of American greenhouse emissions…” This would eliminate a lot of the pollution being spread into our planets atmosphere causing the global warming. The problem with this is the initial cost for the technology to be put in place is too much for companies to spend.
Other suggestions, like using solar or wind powered energy to cut down the carbon being polluted by coal burning energy source, are also too expensive. So companies are not doing anything about this problem.
Citizens are not concerned with this issue for the most part. Companies, that are primarily causing the problem, are also unconcerned. So again nothing is being done for the environment that is being warmed.
The problem will simply continue, as the people concerned about it continue to write out columns no one reads, as scientists research the subject, as people argue if it’s even happening or not. The facts are there, there is no denying it. However there is not a simple way to fix it.
While all the debate is going on about what to do to fix this problem, it’s only getting worse. The longer we put off this problem the more serious it will be. So now the only question about global warming anyone can ask is; “Do you care about your planet enough to do something to fix this devastating problem?” I wouldn’t simply answer this question, but prove it.
Monday, June 30, 2008
A truth thats frightening
"According to Charles Keating of Citizens for Decency Through Law, research reveals that 77% of child molesters of boys and 87% of child molesters of girls admitted imitating the sexual behavior they had seen in pornography they had watched. Roughly 33% of girls and 14% of boys are molested before the age of 18, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Nearly 2/3 of all sexual assaults reported involved minors and roughly 1/3 involved children under the age of 12. In most cases, however, child molestation goes unreported. Estimates are that only 35% of sexual abuse is reported. Kids can be frightened or embarrassed and many times do not say anything." (http://www.childmolestationvictim.com/statistics.html)
I was doing some research on this subject and honestly what I found frightened me. It's a scary thought. Honestly I believe rape in so so many ways is worse than ending a person’s life. You know afterwards it ends for the molester but it never ends for that child. They have to live with the fact they couldn’t or didn’t protect themselves because they were afraid. So if you’re reading this and you have molested someone… fix it as best as you can now. I know there is not much to be done but you do whatever you can to make sure it DOESN’T happen again. That is my advice.
On the other hand, if you have been a victim, you need to speak. DO something talk, scream, yell, cry, sleep next to your mother at night even if you’re 26. If you need that do it. Talk to someone. Talk to someone who you can trust. Just talk. That is honestly the best thing in the world. Talk to someone and then move from there. That is only a first step and I’m sure it’s not the hardest one. (Honestly if you feel you have no where to turn you can email me and I will be glad to talk to you, even if I don’t even know you I will help as much as I can. However I encourage you to talk to someone who is family or even your best friend. But talk please talk. Holding it in can kill.)
Parents… this life is so crazy and honestly there is so much evil everywhere. Sometimes you can’t protect your children. I know it’s awful to say that. I know you feel responsible to make sure they grow up safe and they become good people and that’s your job as a parent: but honestly sometimes you just can’t. You’re a human being; you can never face the evils of the entire world on your own. Honestly I say it’s better not to. Also sounds bad but life is about learning from struggles to find the happiness. It’s there just sometimes it hides. And I am not saying cause struggles, by no means cause more struggles. I’m saying if they happen, they happen: just help your child learn from them and learn from it yourself. Do what you can to protect them, they are so precious. Children really are so precious. They are only a child once. Teach them to love and not hate. Hate only causes you to give power to the person you do hate. Let go of anger. Find joy. Spend every time you have with your child they will need it. find peace even in the bad find peace. One last thing if you find out your child has been molested, help them. Don’t blame yourself for not being able to protect them when it happened. Protect them now. Help them, cry with them, talk with them, tell them you love them, be proud they have the courage to speak and tell them that, just help them. Ask them what they need. They might say “I don’t know” but you tell them if they need anything they can ask. Talk to them always, and hug them tight, it will help them to know you love them. It really will. And talk to them about rape and molestation before it even happens to help them understand it’s wrong. Also helps them know if it happens they need to tell. Talk to your children and always help them. They are vulnerable because they don’t know a lot of things about the world. Sadly people take advantage of that. Help your kids.
Even something as bad as this can have a good outcome. I know that sounds bad too. However everything has a purpose in life. Don’t stress so much live life, find joy. And most importantly help those when they reach out but more important help them when they don’t too.
I was doing some research on this subject and honestly what I found frightened me. It's a scary thought. Honestly I believe rape in so so many ways is worse than ending a person’s life. You know afterwards it ends for the molester but it never ends for that child. They have to live with the fact they couldn’t or didn’t protect themselves because they were afraid. So if you’re reading this and you have molested someone… fix it as best as you can now. I know there is not much to be done but you do whatever you can to make sure it DOESN’T happen again. That is my advice.
On the other hand, if you have been a victim, you need to speak. DO something talk, scream, yell, cry, sleep next to your mother at night even if you’re 26. If you need that do it. Talk to someone. Talk to someone who you can trust. Just talk. That is honestly the best thing in the world. Talk to someone and then move from there. That is only a first step and I’m sure it’s not the hardest one. (Honestly if you feel you have no where to turn you can email me and I will be glad to talk to you, even if I don’t even know you I will help as much as I can. However I encourage you to talk to someone who is family or even your best friend. But talk please talk. Holding it in can kill.)
Parents… this life is so crazy and honestly there is so much evil everywhere. Sometimes you can’t protect your children. I know it’s awful to say that. I know you feel responsible to make sure they grow up safe and they become good people and that’s your job as a parent: but honestly sometimes you just can’t. You’re a human being; you can never face the evils of the entire world on your own. Honestly I say it’s better not to. Also sounds bad but life is about learning from struggles to find the happiness. It’s there just sometimes it hides. And I am not saying cause struggles, by no means cause more struggles. I’m saying if they happen, they happen: just help your child learn from them and learn from it yourself. Do what you can to protect them, they are so precious. Children really are so precious. They are only a child once. Teach them to love and not hate. Hate only causes you to give power to the person you do hate. Let go of anger. Find joy. Spend every time you have with your child they will need it. find peace even in the bad find peace. One last thing if you find out your child has been molested, help them. Don’t blame yourself for not being able to protect them when it happened. Protect them now. Help them, cry with them, talk with them, tell them you love them, be proud they have the courage to speak and tell them that, just help them. Ask them what they need. They might say “I don’t know” but you tell them if they need anything they can ask. Talk to them always, and hug them tight, it will help them to know you love them. It really will. And talk to them about rape and molestation before it even happens to help them understand it’s wrong. Also helps them know if it happens they need to tell. Talk to your children and always help them. They are vulnerable because they don’t know a lot of things about the world. Sadly people take advantage of that. Help your kids.
Even something as bad as this can have a good outcome. I know that sounds bad too. However everything has a purpose in life. Don’t stress so much live life, find joy. And most importantly help those when they reach out but more important help them when they don’t too.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Tolerance Verses Acceptance
The meaning of each word in the dictionary...
Tolerance: the act of putting up with somebody or something irritating or otherwise unpleasant
Acceptance: willingness to treat somebody as a member of a group or social circle
I think many people are tolerant, which is better than not being tolerant at all (however a lot of people are not tolerant at all), but I think to learn acceptance will truly change this world.
BE friendly. Actually talk to your neighbors and learn acceptance.
AGREE TO DISAGREE!!!
and most importantly Serve others.
Tolerance: the act of putting up with somebody or something irritating or otherwise unpleasant
Acceptance: willingness to treat somebody as a member of a group or social circle
I think many people are tolerant, which is better than not being tolerant at all (however a lot of people are not tolerant at all), but I think to learn acceptance will truly change this world.
BE friendly. Actually talk to your neighbors and learn acceptance.
AGREE TO DISAGREE!!!
and most importantly Serve others.
Gunga Din...
SO I have a challenge for everyone. Challenge is to be like Gunga Din. Most of you have no idea what I'm talking about however I'll tell you.
Today in my English 101 class I learned about the man who wrote the Jungle Book. His name is Rudyard Kipling. He also wrote a poem called Gunga Din. It's amazing. I love it. Thought I would share it because it gives an amazing message about human value. And one thing to remember when reading it is; that when it was written in the 1880's it was common thinking that white people where superior. So for this to be published back then it's even more amazing. No it's not racist. It's the opposite actually. Well enjoy reading the poem.
"YOU may talk o' gin an' beer
When you're quartered safe out 'ere,
An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it;
But if it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water,
An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
Now in Injia's sunny clime,
Where I used to spend my time
A-servin' of 'Er Majesty the Queen,
Of all them black-faced crew
The finest man I knew
Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din.
It was "Din! Din! Din!
You limping lump o' brick-dust, Gunga Din!
Hi! slippy hitherao!
Water, get it! Panee lao!
You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din!"
The uniform 'e wore
Was nothin' much before,
An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind,
For a twisty piece o' rag
An' a goatskin water-bag
Was all the field-equipment 'e could find.
When the sweatin' troop-train lay
In a sidin' through the day,
Where the 'eat would make your bloomin' eyebrows crawl,
We shouted "Harry By!"
Till our throats were bricky-dry,
Then we wopped 'im 'cause 'e couldn't serve us all.
It was "Din! Din! Din!
You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been?
You put some juldee in it,
Or I'll marrow you this minute,
If you don't fill up my helmet, Gunga Din!"
'E would dot an' carry one
Till the longest day was done,
An' 'e didn't seem to know the use o' fear.
If we charged or broke or cut,
You could bet your bloomin' nut,
'E'd be waitin' fifty paces right flank rear.
With 'is mussick on 'is back,
'E would skip with our attack,
An' watch us till the bugles made "Retire."
An' for all 'is dirty 'ide,
'E was white, clear white, inside
When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire!
It was "Din! Din! Din!"
With the bullets kickin' dust-spots on the green.
When the cartridges ran out,
You could 'ear the front-files shout:
"Hi! ammunition-mules an' Gunga Din!"
I sha'n't forgit the night
When I dropped be'ind the fight
With a bullet where my belt-plate should 'a' been.
I was chokin' mad with thirst,
An' the man that spied me first
Was our good old grinnin', gruntin' Gunga Din.
'E lifted up my 'ead,
An' 'e plugged me where I bled,
An' 'e guv me 'arf-a-pint o' water—green;
It was crawlin' an' it stunk,
But of all the drinks I've drunk,
I'm gratefullest to one from Gunga Din.
It was "Din! Din! Din!
'Ere's a beggar with a bullet through 'is spleen;
'E's chawin' up the ground an' 'e's kickin' all around:
For Gawd's sake, git the water, Gunga Din!"
'E carried me away
To where a dooli lay,
An' a bullet come an' drilled the beggar clean.
'E put me safe inside,
An' just before 'e died:
"I 'ope you liked your drink," sez Gunga Din.
So I'll meet 'im later on
In the place where 'e is gone—
Where it's always double drill and no canteen;
'E'll be squattin' on the coals
Givin' drink to pore damned souls,
An' I'll get a swig in Hell from Gunga Din!
Din! Din! Din!
You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din"
I LOVE IT!!!
Peace
Brooke
Today in my English 101 class I learned about the man who wrote the Jungle Book. His name is Rudyard Kipling. He also wrote a poem called Gunga Din. It's amazing. I love it. Thought I would share it because it gives an amazing message about human value. And one thing to remember when reading it is; that when it was written in the 1880's it was common thinking that white people where superior. So for this to be published back then it's even more amazing. No it's not racist. It's the opposite actually. Well enjoy reading the poem.
"YOU may talk o' gin an' beer
When you're quartered safe out 'ere,
An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it;
But if it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water,
An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
Now in Injia's sunny clime,
Where I used to spend my time
A-servin' of 'Er Majesty the Queen,
Of all them black-faced crew
The finest man I knew
Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din.
It was "Din! Din! Din!
You limping lump o' brick-dust, Gunga Din!
Hi! slippy hitherao!
Water, get it! Panee lao!
You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din!"
The uniform 'e wore
Was nothin' much before,
An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind,
For a twisty piece o' rag
An' a goatskin water-bag
Was all the field-equipment 'e could find.
When the sweatin' troop-train lay
In a sidin' through the day,
Where the 'eat would make your bloomin' eyebrows crawl,
We shouted "Harry By!"
Till our throats were bricky-dry,
Then we wopped 'im 'cause 'e couldn't serve us all.
It was "Din! Din! Din!
You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been?
You put some juldee in it,
Or I'll marrow you this minute,
If you don't fill up my helmet, Gunga Din!"
'E would dot an' carry one
Till the longest day was done,
An' 'e didn't seem to know the use o' fear.
If we charged or broke or cut,
You could bet your bloomin' nut,
'E'd be waitin' fifty paces right flank rear.
With 'is mussick on 'is back,
'E would skip with our attack,
An' watch us till the bugles made "Retire."
An' for all 'is dirty 'ide,
'E was white, clear white, inside
When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire!
It was "Din! Din! Din!"
With the bullets kickin' dust-spots on the green.
When the cartridges ran out,
You could 'ear the front-files shout:
"Hi! ammunition-mules an' Gunga Din!"
I sha'n't forgit the night
When I dropped be'ind the fight
With a bullet where my belt-plate should 'a' been.
I was chokin' mad with thirst,
An' the man that spied me first
Was our good old grinnin', gruntin' Gunga Din.
'E lifted up my 'ead,
An' 'e plugged me where I bled,
An' 'e guv me 'arf-a-pint o' water—green;
It was crawlin' an' it stunk,
But of all the drinks I've drunk,
I'm gratefullest to one from Gunga Din.
It was "Din! Din! Din!
'Ere's a beggar with a bullet through 'is spleen;
'E's chawin' up the ground an' 'e's kickin' all around:
For Gawd's sake, git the water, Gunga Din!"
'E carried me away
To where a dooli lay,
An' a bullet come an' drilled the beggar clean.
'E put me safe inside,
An' just before 'e died:
"I 'ope you liked your drink," sez Gunga Din.
So I'll meet 'im later on
In the place where 'e is gone—
Where it's always double drill and no canteen;
'E'll be squattin' on the coals
Givin' drink to pore damned souls,
An' I'll get a swig in Hell from Gunga Din!
Din! Din! Din!
You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din"
I LOVE IT!!!
Peace
Brooke
Saturday, June 21, 2008
SO...about HEIFER!!!
alright time to talk about heifer... I've been meaning to just... haven't. ALright so Heifer is an amazing org. That focuses on ending world hunger. AMAZING ORG!!! lol. Heifer allows people to buy animals of all sorts that go to communities/people all over the world. Heifer also teaches the people who recieve these animals, how to care for them and how to gain food from them. Heifer does so so much and honestly I don't even know all that they do but you guys should check out their cite and if you would like to donate to heifer that's awesome!!! I'm thinking about some kind of fundraiser... I was thinking about putting on a talent show... but I don't have a location to hold it... and there is just problems with that. But I'm still thinking. Hey if anyone has any cool managable ideas please let me know. I'm excited to hear about that.
ALso I'm going to start a heifer team soon... and well I would love for anyone to join. I'll keep you posted about the heifer info. Keep reading the blog...
Oh I added a list of links to charities I've mentioned. I hope you look at them... =) Heifer is on there.
SO... get involved somehow with any org. Well I just suggest that... You'll have my support on it! =)
Smile today is a beautiful wonderful FANTASTIC day!!!
ALso I'm going to start a heifer team soon... and well I would love for anyone to join. I'll keep you posted about the heifer info. Keep reading the blog...
Oh I added a list of links to charities I've mentioned. I hope you look at them... =) Heifer is on there.
SO... get involved somehow with any org. Well I just suggest that... You'll have my support on it! =)
Smile today is a beautiful wonderful FANTASTIC day!!!
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