Beautiful poem

This poem is written by a fourteen year old girl with cancer. I thought it was so beautiful that I just had to post it.

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids

On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain

Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly`s erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down

Don`t dance so fast

Time is short

The music won`t last.

Do you run through each day

On the fly?

When you ask “How are you?”

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

Running through your head?

You`d better slow down

Don`t dance so fast

Time is short

The music won`t last.

Ever told your child,

We`ll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friend die

Cause you never had time

To call and say “Hi”?

You`d better slow down

Don`t dance so fast

Time is short

The music won`t last.

2010

Happy New Year!

I love the beginning of a new year. I love starting with blank sheets and new motivation. I am going to get excellent grades this year. Here is a list of four things I think I have to do to get better grades in 2010:

- do all my homework (even though my teacher is not suppose to check them)
- prioritize right (school before job and friends)
- Do my homework without watching television and listening to music at the same time
- Be more structured

So, that is the plan anyway. I do not know if I can complete all four of them - but at least I have a plan.

I have chosen what I want to write about for my senior project. A little less then a year ago I developed an interest for the hippie period and especially the hippie fashion. I fell in love with the colors and the political statements on their t-shirts like for example "make love, not war". In the flower power period peace and love was the center of attention. The hippie culture was a youth movement that aroused in the mid 60's as a reaction to the materialistic society. The hippies had a very special fashion style. In my senior project I want to write about hippie fashion in the 60's and 70's with the subheading "political and cultural influence". Why did the hippies wear clothes that were so different from what their parents did and in what grade was culture and politics a part of the new fashion style that developed?