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dia87 24, Female, Oregon, USA - 13 entries

12

May 2009
3:10 AM PDT

sigh.....

so i thought i found a good guy...he kept sayin i wanna see you...i wishu live closer blah blah blah...well we havent seen eachother we havent hung out...we havent done shit...why why why...i feel like i shouldnt even b around anymore...i feel like everyone is talkin shit behind my back n really dont like me..i dont kno what to do...i wanna get away n start fresh as the new Dianna...not the thick girl that can dance well, or the one who allows everyone to talk all over her. I am confident in some ways but some im not..i feel as if im not need nor wanted anymore...

Jocelyn 41, Female, Taiwan - 13 entries

26

Jun 2007
5:49 PM EDT

The last two days before the summer vacation begins, I only feel more depressed. The thinking of flying to San Jose makes me quiver. Chill down to the spine. And why's that? Well, it's full of unknown, and unpreditible and terrifying what's possibly to happen....don't know. OK, to be honest, I don't want to meet with them, that's all. sighs....

ixypix23 28, Female, Indiana, USA - 13 entries

06

Nov 2006
8:05 AM PDT

LOVE RULES ALL... acctually pherimones are the strongest force on the face of the earth, well at least in my opinon they are that magnetic force that drives all living matter. they are the magnet of our existance.

milagros 23, Female, California, USA - 13 entries

21

Jan 2007
8:48 PM EDT

i think that qoute is true because when you try to get something you already loose or had theres no way to get it back so that why i think we should always think first about the consecuences before doing something.and thats why i think is the worst thing that a person can do.

mourningcloak 56, Female, New York, USA - 13 entries

05

Apr 2011
11:25 AM

Clermont

I love it here. It's new and young and active. I think I will feel happy and content. I will paint and do videos and get involved an lose weight and LOVE life. Yes, that's what I will do. Lots to plan and figure out. Life is Good!

RonPrice 66, Male, Canada - 13 entries

25

Feb 2012
8:28 PM EST

FOOTY and BASEBALL

On the ninth day of spring, just yesterday, I attended the first footy game in a big stadium in Australia-at York Park in Launceston. I had lived in Australia for 36 years and two months--nearly 60 per cent of my life; I had watched parts of several games on small ovals across Australia and, of course, seen dozens of parts of games on TV. But I don’t think I had ever watched an entire game. I was married to a big football fan and having a son and two step-daughters who also enjoyed the game, it was difficult to escape its regular sound in our home for six months of the year, especially at the weekend. Given the centrality of this game to the Aussie ethos, I felt my attendance and what it involved deserved a prose-poem to mark the occasion even though I only watched part of the game and even though it was only for the under 14s. But the game was a grand final in the NTJFL, the northern Tasmania Junior Football League, my 14 year old step-grandson, Tobias Wells, was playing and my wife saw that it was an essential part of my grandfatherly role to attend.-Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 10 September 2007.

Back in what many saw as the quiet fifties, my attention, my spiritual and physical resources, my curiosity, was channelled into sport, school and an emerging interest in the opposite sex. The energies of this young child and adolescent who had just begun the long race of life were, indeed, stretched to the full during those halcyon days by activities having little to no connection with any organized religion. Organized religion in any form has not been a popular activity in Australia and Canada, at least in the places where I have lived all my life, although certain evangelical-fundamentalist groups did attracted large followings.

The following poem tells a little about one of the sports, baseball, its context in my life, in modern history and this new Faith whose connection with my life was a largely peripheral one during the years of my childhood and early to mid-adolescence. I wrote the following poem six weeks before leaving the classroom and retiring from employment as a teacher at the age of 55 in 1999. So often in life I felt strongly that I just could not stay any longer in a place—a town or a city--in a work situation, in a marriage or in any one of the multitude of other relationships one can have in life. For one reason or another I just had to go, had to split, as we used to say colloquially. Sometimes the reason was obvious; sometimes it was inexplicable; sometimes the choice was not mine.

In 1953/4 I felt strongly that I had to leave softball for hardball and third base for the mound, the role of pitcher. In 1950 I had to leave our house in RR#1 Burlington. The former was my choice; the latter had nothing to do with me. Such is part of the nature of fate, determinism and free will. In August 1962, at the age of 18, I played my last game of hardball in the juvenile league for the Burlington All-Stars. I pitched a full nine innings in that game and in the bottom of the ninth I was hit for three runs and we lost the game 3 to 1. The next week my family moved to another town and the next summer I worked for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company to make money to go to university and did not play another game of baseball until I was 39 and lived in Katherine, Northern Territory, where is was so hot that after a few innings in one game I gave it up with an excess of sweat on my brow as a lost cause.

When a series of programs about baseball, a series called The Big Picture, began to unfold on television, I quickly came to realize the remarkable similarity between the story of baseball and the story of the Baha’i Faith, both of which grew up in the modern age. The game of baseball was born in America in the 1840s as a new activity for sporting fraternities and a new way for communities to develop a more defined identity.¹ Indeed, there are many organizations, activities, interests which were born and developed in this modern age, say, since the French and the American revolutions. The points of comparison and contrast between the great charismatic Force which gave birth to the Baha’i Faith and its progressive institutionalization on the one hand, and the origin and development of other movements and organizations on the other, is interesting to observe. I wrote the poem which follows about seven weeks before teaching my last class as a full-time Tafe teacher in Australia. -Ron Price with thanks to Ken Burns, “The Big Picture: Part Two,” ABC TV, 18 February 1999; and ¹John Nagy, “The Survival of Professional Baseball in Lynchburg Virginia: 1950s-1990s,” Rethinking History, Vol.37.

They both grew slowly
through forces and processes,
events and realities
in the late eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries:
baseball and the Baha’i Faith
along their stony and tortuous paths,
the latter out of the Shaykhi School
of the Ithna’Ashariyyih Sect
of Shi’ah Islam.

And it would be many years
before the Baha’i Faith would climb
to the heights of popularity
that baseball had achieved
quite early in its history.

Baseball was a game
whose time had come,
a hybrid invention,
a growth out of diverse roots,
the fields and sandlots of America,
as American as apple pie.

And the Baha’i Faith was an idea
whose time had come, would come,
slowly, it would seem, quite slowly
in the fields, the lounge rooms,
the minds and hearts
of a burgeoning humanity
caught, as it was, as we all were,
in the tentacles of a tempest
that threatened to blow it--
and us--apart.

Ron Price
17 February 1999

A second poem about baseball, written about a year after retiring from full-time teaching to Tasmania, where I lived in its oldest town, George Town---also conveys something of the flavour of those ‘warm-up days until I was 18 when my curiosity about this new religion was exceeded by curiosity about other things.

A BASEBALL-CRAZY KID

In October 1956 Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the only perfect game in post-season baseball. Yogi Berra was the catcher.¹ That same month and year R. Rabbani advised Mariette Bolton of Orange Australia, in the extended PS of her letter, that it was “much better for the friends to give up saying “Amen.”² The following year Shoghi Effendi died and Jackie Robinson, the first Negro to play professional baseball, retired. I was completing grades 7 and 8 when all of this took place and, even at this early age, was in love with at least three girls and possibly four in my class: Carol Ingham, Judy Simpson, Karen Jackson and Susan Gregory. I found them all so very beautiful. Karen was the first girl I kissed.³ -Ron Price with appreciation to:¹"The Opening of the World Series: 2000," ABC TV; ²Messages to the Antipodes, Shoghi Effendi, editor, Graham Hassall, Baha’i Publications Australia, 1997, p.419; and ³Ron Price, Journal: Canada: To 1971: 1.1, Photograph Number 102.

I was just starting grade seven
and still saying amen
occasionally when I went
to that Anglican Church
on the Guelph Line
in Burlington Ontario
with my mother and father
and saying grace
just as occasionally.

I watched the World Series,
a highlight of autumn
for a twelve year old
baseball-crazy kid, back then.
And I passed the half-way point
of my pre-youth days¹
when I was the only kid
with any connection
with this new world Faith
in these, the very early days
of the growth of a Cause
in the Dominion of Canada,²
a Cause that contained the seed
for a future world civilization.

¹ 1953 to 1959: my pre-youth days.
² In 1956 there were only about 600 Baha’is in Canada. The 400 Baha’is that started the Ten Year Crusade in 1953 in Canada became 800 by the time I became a Baha’i in 1959. In southern Ontario, from, say, Oakville to Niagara Falls and Windsor, to several points north of Lakes Ontario and Erie in 1956 I was the only pre-youth whom I then knew, or later came to know. There may have been other pre-youth but at this early stage of the growth of the Cause in Canada, year fifty-eight of its history, I was not aware of them.—See Canada’s Six Year Plan: 1986-1992, NSA of the Baha’is of Canada, 1987, p.46.

Ron Price
23 October 2000
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gwen 66, Female, California, USA - 13 entries

07

Jan 2010
2:09 AM PDT

I think I have figured out the puzzle. The patron was under the impression that Los Angeles Library for the Blind was suggesting he get materials from other than them -- a participating library near him. I think that the Los Angeles Library sent the brochure to the patron for his selection of items and that he is to return it to the Los Angeles address for fulfillment. I found a website where one can look up "participating libraries" in your state. The libraries in California are Los Angeles, Sacramento, Fresno, and San Francisco. I have retrieved the letter I prepared to the Florida address and am contacting the patron about submitting the request to Los Angeles.

Tags: audiocassettes, babyboomers, Large Print

redshotlizard 23, Female, California, USA - 12 entries

26

Apr 2010
6:46 PM HNT

let me see... I brag about how awesome my boyfriend is because he treats me well. There aren't many couple like us, our relationship is true. I actually have never met a couple like us and just when I though for sure I did.. I was wrong because it turned out to be a break up. I brag that my boyfriend treats me right, takes me places, calls me his princess, tells me he loves me, always kisses me in public, and respects me and everything. I am not really a bragger of anything much but when I see something awesome.. I can't help but show it off. Oh And let me not forget.. GOD is definitely something to brag about. God is awesome and He is the reason for everything. He makes everything possible and He helps us all through it. God is the Awesome one. Without him nothing would be possible so he is definitely worth bragging about :)

Miss1 32, Female, Kentucky, USA - 12 entries

23

Nov 2006
12:52 PM EDT

Happy Thanksgiving. actually I think it's going to be a pretty good one for us. We are just having dinner together at home, just the 3 of us. well, i'm sure I told you about my boss, mel. She was supposed to be putting her two weeks in as soon as her mom's house sold. Well it sold and now she's saying she's not leaving till she finds another job! That is ridiculous. So I'm thinking that--basically--she isn't going nowhere. She fuckin' lied to me. It doesn't matter anymore though cause Claire, the GM came and told me to look for an increase in my pay on next pay period. So i'm excited about that because either way it goes I'm getting a raise. HA HA and Mel hates it. OH WELL. I can't wait until she is finally gone! Later for now---I have Thanksgiving dinner to make.

dave 36, Male, Arizona, USA - 12 entries

06

Dec 2006
5:13 AM EDT

Why is the pain still ther after all she has put me through. I can't believe she si doing drugs after all the great things she could me and the kids holy shit...I don't miss her but I mis the person she used to be. We all do. I wish that one of these days she will be back to the person we all know. even the kids notice a differance. God be with her and me. I love lisa so much. Every day I am with you a become more and more in love with you and who you have made me. All I want is to be with Lisa and the kids. God please look over us and make sure we are safe. Thank you!

laulau-goteborg 27, Female, Finland - 12 entries

05

Feb 2008
5:14 AM CET

blogini on muuttanut!

osoite on:

http://laulau-goteborg.livejournal.com

sinnepä siis allihopa!

nava 20, Male, California, USA - 12 entries

28

Jan 2007
4:54 AM PDT

No matter what you have makes you a genius or your imagination if they were both combined it it does't make a soul's genius.

vabronxboogie 32, Female, Virginia, USA - 12 entries

02

Mar 2008
5:20 PM PST

March 2, 2008 We met each other's family

Blair was up when i got home and his whole agenda was for me to meet his mom. I was nervous and excited. We went to flea market to drop off laptop at the kernal's. We then went to petersburg and he was pissed cuz we had to have his tire fixed cuz he done messed up the rim. It got fixed but he blamed it on potholes in richmond. lol His mom was really nice. Blair and I are gonna be moving with each other and Im excited about that as well. We gon make this work! We then went to pick up my car and my laptop and shot to my uncle's house and i went to see curuchi and tito who live across from each other. We also got to see my twin cousins stephany and her sis. Stephany likes to travel and even went to chicago, holla. Nano was there. We were asked to stay for dinner but I thought Blair wasnt up for it so I said I had to go to work which was true. Blair actually wanted to stay! Poorcommunication on my part. Well at home, I put Blair to cook. He made this steaks that came out really good. Ihad the rice and beans. His plate was spic and span. I'm glad he enjoyed it cus boy is he picky. We went to sleep till I had to get up and he basically dragged me off the bed so i can wake up. lol

Bioprana 37, Female, Chile - 12 entries

12

Jun 2008
7:31 PM PST

CARE ABOUT OTHER AND DO SOMETHING TO HELP THE OTHER THAT IS THE HIGE DEMOSTRATION OF INTEGRITY, THAT WILL HELPOTHER AND YOU SOUL

jtomina 27, Female, Michigan, USA - 12 entries

18

Nov 2011
6:11 PM CDT

Personal Interest Statement-MSW

Jennifer Tomina
Personal Interest Statement
November 18, 2011

             My name is Jennifer Tomina and I live the dream. For years I have envisioned myself studying social work as a profession. For years I have seen myself getting a degree which I will be utilizing in my every day professional realm. The reasons cannot be counted of why I chose to study social work as a profession, but some can still be named.
            I chose social work as a profession because I became sick of just being a client receiving mental health services. I became tired of being constantly assisted by social workers and constantly going to appointments and constantly being involved at that end of the system. Basically, I had been assisted but I wanted to assist too. So, I chose to study social work.
            My career objectives with an MSW degree are limitless, bountiful, and basically abundant. There is so much that can be done with an MSW degree and there is so much that I want to do. My first career objective with an MSW degree is to advance from the BSW degree so I can obtain higher positions than only being employed in positions such as case manager positions.
            Another of my career objectives is to one day work in a mental health setting. I would like to be a therapist one day down the line and again be able to assist others instead of always being assisted by others as I was in the past. I hope to conduct individual and group therapy. I hope to work in settings such as mental health facilities or institutions of higher education providing these types of therapies.
            A third objective would be to one day work in a school and also a hospital setting. I can truly see myself being a school social worker and assisting youth and I can see myself working in a hospital assisting the gravely ill and those needing the most support. Obviously these career tracks will not be accomplished in the same time, but I feel that with the profession I am studying, that I can undoubtedly keep my options open. It all starts with obtaining the mighty MSW in social work.
            I must say that my BSW education greatly prepared me for my intended field of practice. In my education I was able to write comprehensive papers, and learn about social work ethics, and I was able to sign up for and take classes that taught me about social justice and oppression, about research, about practice methods, and about social work policy.
In the classroom I learned so much and through my BSW education I learned a vast amount outside of the classroom as well. This is because I was able to obtain two remarkable and fulfilling internships. My first internship was at the Educational Opportunity Center on the campus of Wayne State University. I was able to assist prospective college students in filling out online and paper admissions applications and also in filling out the FAFSA for students. My other internship is currently at the Matrix Human Services Youth Assistance Program in Detroit, MI, where I assist with youth in danger of entering the juvenile justice system. At YAP, I assist with group counseling and tutoring. In my BSW field education practicums I can say that I have learned to work with both the adult and children population and it gives me great pride to be able to admit this.
I conceptualize the practice of social work with client systems to be a practice dedicated to assisting individual clients and systems by using comprehensive, succinct, and reliable methods. In relation to methods, I conceptualize the practice of social work with client systems to be a practice that uses individualized methods for individual client systems. I conceptualize methods being used which pertain to individual client systems and which do not always pertain uniformly to all clients. I do not feel it is possible for a particular treatment method to be the answer for any and every client system.
            That being said, I conceptualize my personal interaction s with client systems to be based on who exactly I am working with. If I am working with those with mental illness than I would hope to be utilizing methods of treatment related to those with mental illness. In a hospital I would utilize methods of treatment related to those with general and severe illnesses. In a school I would adopt methods implemented for students. I would use the methods that fit the population or populations which I was working with.
            My life experiences have had a hundred percent bearing on my potential for the social work profession. For seven years I have lived with a mental illness and for seven years of having this illness, I have not given up on my dream of finishing my education and I have not given up on being able to help others as I have been helped. . My potential for the social work profession has become that much more abundant for this reason. If I had not had my life experiences, than I feel I would be less equipped to help those who are suffering. My suffering in my life led to hope and I am sure my life experiences will lead to positive interactions in the employment realm. Therefore, my experiences have had a positive bearing on my potential for the social work profession.
            My strengths for social work practice are that I will become employed having the ability to work with different client populations due to my internship experience. My strengths are also that I will be able to assist others needing help as clients with precise expertise, and a strong and profound knowledge-base. Finally, my strengths are that I have grown so much through studying social work and I know that I will gain strength in the ability of exceeding personal growth because social workers are always learning long after the classroom. My limitation for social work practice is that I may want to show overwhelming compassion but I must at the same time leave everything to be at a professional level as to maintain the client/social worker acceptable and professional relationship.
            I can clearly say that I have a large concern for social problems. I see the sadness that this world is filled with. I see that in 2011 there is so much suffering and I see that in years to come there will be suffering as well. I know that so many social problems exist such as those of crime, poverty, and mental illness, and I am going into a profession where I will be able to assist others in ways such as helping people to not enter the criminal justice system, helping people obtain food benefits and amenities such as housing vouchers, and helping people obtain the correct medications in order to stay healthy.
            My attitude towards people with different values, life styles, cultures, and/ or religious values of mine is an attitude of acceptance. I would never have studied social work in the first place if I did not have an attitude of acceptance. People have individual minds and there is not always uniformity. Not everyone has to agree with a person’s values, life styles, culture, and/or religion but I feel the least that can be done is to accept people for who they really and truly are and give the same acceptance that one would want for himself or herself.
            In describing my capacity to be self-critical and ability to benefit from the feedback of others, I can say my internship experiences have allowed me these moments. In my internships I have become self-critical. Also in my internships I have had to rely on feedback because I know I am at internship to learn and benefit from supervisor and other worker feedback.
            I also feel that my internships have given me the ability to think, learn, and work under pressure. I have had to meet deadlines at internship just like I will have to meet deadlines at my place of employment. I have had pressures of entering case notes into paper and computer based systems and I know that as a social worker I will be doing this as well. That all being said, I truly believe my internships have given me the ability to work with others. I have also worked with others in group projects in the classroom.
            I see myself coping with the demands of graduate studies at Wayne State University by setting aside adequate study time each and every day. I see myself coping by making utmost use of the Purdy/Kresge graduate library. I see myself using the online library system to the fullest as well in obtaining articles. I also see myself working in more demanding internship facilities and I see myself asking questions whenever I do not understand any directions given to myself.
            My plans for financial my graduate education at Wayne State University are to fill out the FAFSA first and foremost. I plan to take out needed loans. I also plan to apply for scholarships through the School of Social Work.
            I, Jennifer Tomina, needed to be accepted to the Bachelors in Social Work program and I was. I needed to study social work in hopes of assisting and not just being assisted and I am well on my way to being able to do so. I now apply for acceptance into the Masters of Social Work program and I hopefully will be as one door will close while another waits patiently to be opened.

sky 20, Female, Pennsylvania, USA - 12 entries

12

May 2007
7:59 PM EDT

today was ok. tommorow i have to go to a family picnic ...and everyone knows how fun that is...hahHhaaaaaaaaaaaa...not!

kris89 23, Male, California, USA - 12 entries

15

Jan 2007
11:38 AM PST

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Racquelc6 33, Female, New York, USA - 12 entries

30

Apr 2012
8:53 AM

Josias' Diet

On 4/29/12 Josias was sitting eating rice, beans and chicken. Josias stopped midway through his meal and threw up. Earlier he had had homemade p

babygirl0608 24, Female, Pennsylvania, USA - 12 entries

04

Nov 2009
5:16 PM EDT

starting it like im writing to my boyfriend

Hey baby,

How was your day? Mine was good just bored now. I like my job but wish I had more time to see you and the kids. I am so tired of not being able to see you guys like I used to. I just wish that I would of saved money awhile ago and we could of got a place sooner then me having to live all the way out here. I hope that I can start driving some more so soon I can get my license so I can come and see you more then I do already. I also hate working this 12:30 till 9 shit because I can't really do anything because of the shit that I have to come straight home after work because my mom picks me up. I get so bored out here and when I am not with you all I do is think about you. Thinking about you don't help like it does when I see you.

When Ashley came in today and told me that she saw you on trick or treat and you told her that we weren't together that really did hurt me because I have had that happen to me before but I talked to you about it and atleast it didn't start a fight and that you still are talking to me. I thought about it before I started flipping out because one I should be able to believe you over anyone and two if I would of started a fight we wouldn't of talked for a week because that is normally what happends. I am just surprised that your ex doesn't come in and say shit like I thought she would.

well baby I love you and going to go I will talk to you in a little bit.

amiejotrotter 37, Female, Louisiana, USA - 12 entries

04

May 2009
5:10 PM CST

Get my finances in order so that I can go to school and work at the same time.

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