You've Got....Love?

Too many people are saying "I hate my life" around this time of year
its not a matter of hating your current situation or not
because frankly, the only reason why someone would hate a part of life is if it doesn't meet up to life's usual standards

It's the fact that it's okay to not hate

We are a generation of "the grass is greener on the other side"
there's always someone out there that has it better
sure

there's always a chance that life won't go the way that you want it to
yes

there's a chance that someone will love you even if you aren't aware of it
always

I guess that's one of the many things that keeps the mystery of love from us..
knowing that it might turn up in unexpected or even familiar places
you just have to glance back behind once in a while

and you'll be able to see that pile of love following you faithfully

No More Tuesdays...

I feel as if one of those phases in your life has come to an end

mainly because:
- it made me feel like a kid again
- i actually felt useful, even adored
- i could see you every week
- i got the weekly update on the "save the music program"
- I could make funny faces and get genuine funny faces back at me

It won't be the same without them
On Tuesdays, I will be asking myself---shouldn't I be going home at this time?
It began to be where I would look forward to them too, out of all the days of my week

I hope the legacy will persist

I've Got a Feeling..

I have a feeling that I am going to discover so much at Costa Rica

FCBOE board meeting

I'm Tired of Fighting

CALL OF DUTY

http://www.petitiononline.com/sokm2010/petition.html

please sign this to help save the fulton county elementary music program

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FULTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING~~~~~~~

WE NEED AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE FOR THE PROTEST!
YOU"LL BE ON TELEVISION IN THE NEWS AND WHATNOT TOO! :]
this is your chance to make a difference

like all those colleges say: we dont really care as much of your AP scores than of the fact that you impacted your community in some way

this is your chance

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1) sign the online petition
please sign this to help save the fulton county elementary music program

get your parents and everyone you know to sign--random people at your school
cuz all you need to sign is a name and an email
if you have multiple accounts--go for it
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2) ATTEND THE BOARD MEETING!!!!!!!
MOST IMPORTANT!!

This Thursday April 22nd,
Dunwoody Springs Elementary 6:30 PM

be there..or be unmusical

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3)we need 10,000 signatures on the petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/sokm2010/petition.html

by this thursday--3000 more...which averages about more than 750 a day

PLEASE HELP!

Yeah..thats right

No more Complacency

okays---so i haven't been focusing much at all on God to be perfectly honest
in other words--i fell into the deepest trap:

complacency & indifference

I read his word for the first time in a while today
and I came to a chapter I had bookmarked earlier in the year

Amos 6: 1-7

Woe to you who are complacent in Zion,
and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria,
you notable men of the foremost nation,
to whom the people of Israel come!

3 You put off the evil day
and bring near a reign of terror.

4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory
and lounge on your couches.
You dine on choice lambs
and fattened calves.

5 You strum away on your harps like David
and improvise on musical instruments.

6 You drink wine by the bowlful
and use the finest lotions,
but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

7 Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile;
your feasting and lounging will end.

i feast, lounge, play, strum, moisturize....not that these things aren't bad
it's because the people in this time period garnered this wealth by cheating the poor

but---i am most definitely one of these overprivileged.
it's amazing how much you realize after only reading seven of God's words
i WAS going to put on here that i'm going to die before this weekend because i have three tests tomm and then a bc final on sat

but then i thought----

there are so many dying in this world
and here i am in an airconditioned, clothed, american dream lifestyle
and what am I doing to change any of that?

I want to make a difference in someone's life right now---
no more complacency
please

Presenting..the MacDonalds

Presenting..the macdonalds--
faith
patrick
&jeremy

If My Heart was a House

If My Heart was a House

home home home home
its never been a house
its been my childhood
my toddler years

my grandfather planted pine trees that were knee high twenty years ago
and now they are thirty feet tall

out of the tulips my parents planted twenty years ago
all have faded away
except for one yellow bloom that surprises us every year
one blink of yellow enveloped in pink azaleas

my bed
so warm

there are lead markings on the doorsills ranging from shuen at age 8: 3'3" to shuen at age 16: 5'3" with an occasional playmate's height thrown in
that nick in the kitchen wall made by our rabbits
the same chair we were rocked to sleep in as babies now in a different corner

every nook and cranny i know the story of
ask me and the stories will evolve every way because there is no end to these tales
hidden until reminded by those markings in the wall

i think that despite all of our shenanigans and cries to be set free
we will always want to return to the nest
yeah, its great that we fly everywhere
explore the world
and want that irrepressible freedom

but to be able to walk into a familiar place is heaven

i've never missed home this much before
home---such a beautiful word

random thoughts of a college roadtripper

Day 1-

drive drive drive...yay!! DC
"shuen, will you sit up and look at the airforce memorial?"
"Baba, you say that everytime we come up..it hasn't changed since thanksgiving"
"well see it again!" x]

reach aunt amy's house..hug cousin stephen..whew we're in for the night

DAY 2

wake up..finish roses for faith&them
eat breakfast with fam plus cassey..another cousin
drive drive drive
...moving at literally 5 miles per hour in connecticut, new jersey, and new york

WHAT??!!!! $9.50 FOR TOLL????!! :OOOOOO
hehe.got a pic of the $8 one too x]

and...the gps is telling us we will arrive in boston at 1 AM...THEREFORE

DAY 3

leave hotel in connecticut
and..visit YALEEEEEE YAYYY
haha my best pick so far...
still hoping god will call me to wherever he wants for me to go

after info and campus tour..eat lunch :9
and REACH BOSTON!!! :DDDD
hehe and eat chinese food
where my oh so lovely macdonald gang is..
spend the whole night talking and being ourselves

DAY 4

Brown---very nice very nice indeed
#3 choice as of now...
eat lunch
dang..all these ivy leagues have HUMONGO buffets *stuffed*

eat dinner @ uno's pizzeria
best..pizza..EVER no joke
me and faith stand outside the bathroom hiding the fact that we're charging the camara battery in the outlet we're hiding hehe x]

faith, patrick, jeremy, me all sleep upstairs in their study

DAY 5
Boston University & Harvard
wow..
did NOT expect to like harvard that much..its #2 as of now
...is god calling me to this school?
i heard so much mention of his name..at the train station, singing amazing grace on the street..

i bought lunch for a homeless person today
but...it seemed like he was lying to me about stuff..

lol..SUCH RANDOM THOUGHTS haha
and...wearing half a facial mask at the moment
BECAUSE we only had one...so we cut it in half hehe
..we look scary..i'll post pics later :]

and...thats my college road trip part 1
ADIOS