Diversity is living in Chinatown and having dim sum with my Chinese speaking parents every Sunday morning. Diversity is going to school and having Korean, Bengali and half Dominican and Polish friends. Diversity is eating Halal food from street stands, dining in fancy Italian restaurants and simultaneously enjoying a McDonald’s cheeseburger. But diversity extends far […]
“I love you so much Kerry, how did I get so lucky to have a cousin like you?” The day my cousin Laura said this to me I was reaffirmed at how much this statement is true, yet in regards to her. Laura is beautiful, carefree, excited, and has a disability. In 1968 a healthy […]
My brother has been one of the influential folks in my life. I’ve seemed as much as him as a job mannequin as an individual and as a Christian. He has at all times been somebody that I might discuss to about something and would Help me out with something. It was not till I […]
Seventeen years, two eyes, one coronary heart, one mind. A kaleidoscopic of vehicles whizzes by me as I waltz from my bus cease in downtown Los Angeles to my dwelling, a government-funded house advanced. Seventeen years, two eyes, one coronary heart, one mind. Seventeen years to slay apathy, stockpile verbal ammunition, doubt the established order, […]
This I Imagine “Music is three chords and the reality!” Music expresses your feeling by the phrases and rhythm! I consider that everybody wants music. I don’t assume anybody would have away to precise themselves with out music. Going to a funeral the music expresses largely everybody’s emotions. While you go to a funeral each […]
Swoosh. Splash. The frigid water closes over my head. Sinking into the deep blue-green of Flathead Lake, slowly I turn over and gaze up at the wind-whipped waves that make the sunlight dance on the lake floor. Slowly, I let my breath out and return to the surface. The cold, fresh air hits my face […]
I used to be mad, upset, indignant, confused, harm, and most of all I didn’t know what to do. Dropping a member of the family can actually harm badly. The primary time I misplaced an in depth member of the family was the worst. I’ve had many members of the family go away in my […]
Having breakfast every morning is more important than having a personal relationship with God. This is the way I used to think. My first two years of high school I would make sure I had time to eat breakfast every morning, but I never made time for God. I never prayed, read the bible or […]
“An Escape Room! That’s what we’ll do.” My relationship with my 16-year-old brother is shaped by a tradition we’ve cultivated over the years – homemade gifts. Whether it’s Christmas or Diwali, every year we work together to create special keepsakes or experiences for friends and family. Sometimes the process is more memorable than the result. […]
When my life was shortly falling out of my arms and actuality wasn’t inside attain, I felt helpless. I wanted to discover a method out by some means, somebody or one thing to affect me in a greater method by serving to me out of the most important gap I had dug myself into. All […]
