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Don't Let Life Get In The Way Of Your Life

The memories are so very clear. We had just put the final touches; the last giant cubes of marble and concrete were setting in. It didn't matter that they were really big rocks and chunks of dirt and mud on the walls. What a magnificent structure! No Indians, no Cavalry, no Kings Men and no Attila the Hun could storm these walls. My friends and I had built this magnificent fort to withstand any assault from our imaginary enemies. It never occurred to us that this fortress, this pillar of strength could crumble at any moment. It had taken us days to build but they were wonderful days. The sun was blistering hot. July days in southern Ohio would get that way. The Great Miami River sparkled in the distance as we slaved and struggled to build this edifice to engineering. Of course we didn't know that's what we were building but that's what my memory of those days has etched in my dreams. We had built something that nobody else had ever built and we'd defend it to the last man; or 8 year old boy. Life was so exciting back then and this fort represented all that was good. And then the rains came. Two days of torrential rain and the river kept rising and the insurmountable, the un-breachable fort was gone, carried away in the deluge. Dreams were destroyed that week in 1953 but they would appear again. We just didn't realize it at the time. It didn't cross our minds that we were actually learning one of the basics of an adventuresome life. Nothing lasts forever

It's interesting how memories and dreams sustain us as we grow older. Life often becomes what we want it to be based on those dreams of long ago. Sadly, we too often forget to live those dreams and we forget that anything is possible in a dream.

I've always been a bit of a dreamer so those memories of long ago have stayed with me as if they happened yesterday. That doesn't mean it hasn't rained on my forts just a few times. Those memories have helped me rebuild many forts and continue to do so today. Forts though get bigger, stronger and harder to rebuild as we get older but they don't disappear. They just take more work. I've learned over these many years that those rebuilt forts have led to the greatest lessons I've ever experienced. These are the lessons that make life worthwhile, more challenging and satisfying than almost all of the other lessons combined. I like to describe them as just one of many rebirths.

My youngest daughter had just gotten married a few weeks prior to me visiting the Dr. in May of 1998. This wasn't a comfortable visit but it was one where I pretty much knew what the outcome would be. As a runner and avid weight lifter I knew right away the signs of a hernia and thus my visit to the Dr. Little did I know that this visit would change my life and it would never be the same.

Over the next couple of weeks I was told that my kidneys were down to about 25% functioning and I soon required emergency surgery on my hernia. I was forced to delay the original hernia surgery due to the kidney issue. The prognosis I was given set the stage for life altering events that would take me in a direction I had never dreamed. The lessons I would learn would change me in ways that were unimaginable before that day. I would never be the same.My fort was being destroyed by torrents of bad news. My internal fortress was washed away, seemingly to never be found again.

Thus was my introduction to one of the most life altering moments in my fifty plus years and the beginning of a journey that continues even today. It's strange how these forts we build in our lives can crumble overnight. We think we can withstand anything and then the unexpected storm happens and the walls come tumbling down. What we do at that point creates the defining moments in our lives. Who we are and what we are made of screams out at us to make a statement and be heard. Whether we do or not attests to our makeup and sets the stage for making those dreams come true or letting them wash away with the turmoil.

For me it wasn't traumatic or even frightening. It was more like a slap across the face when I wasn't quite ready. Have you ever had a slap like that? A slap that hits you square in the face when you least expect it. It usually happens when we aren't looking with the painfully delivered message that life was changing forever. I had kidney disease and I actually lost my breath. My fort had failed to keep out the enemy. My walls crumbled and the invaders were close at hand. I was facing hand to hand combat and I didn't even have a weapon; or did I?

That was June of 1998 and I had just come through a pretty stressful few months. I lost my mother, mother-in-law and brother-in-law all between the first week in October, 1997 and Christmas. My youngest daughter had just gotten married in May, 1998 and I had just completed one of the most lucrative consulting assignments I'd had since starting my business in 1992. To say my life was turned upside down was an understatement. I almost didn't know what to deal with first, my grief over losing my loved ones, my joy over my daughter's marriage, my elation that my business had finally taken off or the crash of a life altering illness. It was a lot to deal with but as I look back, I realize that this 8 month period of time would define my life from that point forward. I now know why we say, everything happens for a reason. I now truly understand my purpose in life. Kidney disease pushed me over the hump and forced me to see more clearly what I needed to do and that i t was not as difficult or confusing as I had always made it. What I finally found was the direction I'd searched for most of my life and that direction was forward. All the trials and tribulations, all the struggles and setbacks, all the losses and seeming failures in life as well as the victories and happy times were simply a part of life. My fort could be rebuilt just like that one many years earlier. Why hadn't I seen it before?

We all have our forts destroyed at some time in our lives. Many of those forts aren't all that big or strong and some, like mine don't fall so easily but when they do, we need a plan to rebuild. We need to think clearly and rationally and believe in our hearts that it was just a structure. It had a foundation and walls and rooms that were pieces of a life well lived but it didn't have to have a roof. It didn't have to have a ceiling that stopped us. When we realize this, we're on our way to success. So how do we rebuild those forts? We keep our wits and think things through.

We slow down and analyze the problem. Overreaction can be the death of any good plan.

We act. We do something. Procrastination never accomplishes anything.

We logically move forward, one step at a time.

We believe that this is the beginning of a new chapter in life and it may very well be the best one.

I read one time where it's never too late to become what we might have been. Don't let your life get in the way of your life. It's just not all that complicated.

Jim Dineen

Jim Dineen is an author, speaker and writer who has experienced dialysis and transplant and all of its ensuing complications in a not so complicated way. His first book, "Life's Just Not That Complicated" very concisely looks at life's challenges and asks, if it's really as difficult as we make it. He can be contacted through his web site at www.eagledreamer.com or jim@eagledreamer.com.

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Isang pangyayari ang sa buhay ko’y nagtatak ngayung taon. Isang pangyayari na sa buhay ng pamilya ko’y nagdulot ng mga pagbabago, pagbabagong nagudyok sa amin na mabuhay ng ayon sa landas ng panahon.

Enero ng taong kasalukuyan, ang ama ko’y nagpatingin sa doctor dahil sa iniinda nyang karamdaman sa matagal ng panahon. Mga pagbabago sa kanyang katawan na halos nagsanhi ng pagkaputol ng tinatamasang kaligayahan. Minungkahi siya ng doktor na magpablood test para malaman kung ano ang sanhi ng kanyang masamang nararamdaman at kasabay nito ay ang isa pang mungkahi na magpa-admit para siya’y mabantayan.Lumibot kmi sa mga ospital na kung saan may mga bakanteng kwarto na siya ay pwede, ngunit bawat ospitan n mapuntahan namin ay puno na ng mga pasyente. Dahil sa ganitong mga pangyayari, bumalik kami s doktor na inirikomenda siyang magpa-admit. Minungkahi nlang sya na ipagpatuloy nalang ang pagpapalaboratory nya para malaman at malunasan kung sakasakaling may sakit nga siya. Nung araw ding yun nagpunta kmi sa isang ospital para magpapalaboratoryo, na padpad kami sa st. alexus ospital.

Makaraan ng mahigit ng isang lingong paghihintay sa resulta. Pebrero ng kasalukuyang taon ay natanggap na ama ko ang resulta. Nung araw na iyon ako ay nagaaral. Walang kamuwang-muwang sa masamang balita na natanggap ng aking ama, alasingko na ng hapon ng ako’y makauwi, pagkapasok ko ng pinto nabutan ko ang aking amang umiiyak sa may sala. nung una ay hindi ko maintindihan kung ano ang nangyayari at nilalaman ng subre na resulta ng laboratoryo, ngunit sa makailang ulit akong pinagpaliwanagan bago ko tuluyan na maintindihan ng husto. Isang sakit na karaniwan ko ng naririnig, isang sakit na alam kong sadyang dilikado at ito’y malala na. cancer sa atay ang sinasabing sakit ng aking ama at ilan pang komplikasyon dulot ng isa pang sakit, diabetes.

Mahigit isang buwan pagkatapos, marso ng kasalukuyang taon, namatay ang aking ama, isang salita sa kapirasong papel ang nakasulat at nung una ay hindi ko maintindihan ang aking nabasa, ang nakasaad “malignant”, na ang ivig sabihin ay, mabilis na kumakalat. Kumalat sa buong katawan nya ang impiksyon kaya tuluyan na itong bumigay.

Sa huli mo nga mararamdaman kung gaano mo kamahal ang isang tao kung wala na siya, lao pa kung ito ay iyong ama. Maikli lang ang maiitatagal na ating buhay kaya, maha;in na natin ng lubusan ang mga taong sa ating tabi’y nariyan pa.

miguel research

Pacardo, Angelo O.

Bautista, Edgien B.

Malcampo, Bettina B.

This paper discusses Maya Angelou's and leona florentino’s ideas of writing poems. and they points out the fact that their poem is written in free verse, which implies that Angelou and Florentino seeks to emphasize the idea of freedom, liberation and love from traditional norms. The paper then looks at the tone of the poem and how it reflects this idea of their genres and how they both criticizes modern cultural ideas about female beauty and feelings. Next, the paper shows how the poem celebrates the author and the poem characters power over men and emphasizes the narrator's sexuality. The paper concludes that freedom and sensibility is the key to the poem, as is the pride of women in their own nature and qualities.

There are alots of todays events that had shook the world in the different circumstances, these are the factors that brought each people reform there whole lives and personality, such as; environmental, physical psycological and etc. and the empacts of these conditions had reshaped their whole lives totally. Some are trying to manage the new changes in their lives with the kind of actions where as they thought to be the most suitable or most effective one for them. People like maya angelou, she had put all her past and future experience (good or bad) in a form of a literary pieces.

Angelou's autobiographies have been used in narrative and multicultural approaches in teacher education. Jocelyn A. Glazier, a professor at George Washington University, has used I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Gather Together in My Name to train teachers how to "talk about race" in their classrooms. Due to Angelou's use of understatement, self-mockery, humor, and irony, readers of Angelou's autobiographies wonder what she "left out" and are unsure about how to respond to the events Angelou describes. Angelou's depictions of her experiences of racism forced white readers to explore their feelings about race and their own "privileged status". Glazier found that although critics have focused on where Angelou fits within the genre of African-American autobiography and on her literary techniques, readers react to her storytelling with "surprise, particularly when [they] enter the text with certain expectations about the genre of autobiography".

Educator Daniel Challener, in his 1997 book, Stories of Resilience in Childhood, analyzed the events in Caged Bird to illustrate resiliency in children. Challener insisted that Angelou's book provides a "useful framework" for exploring the obstacles many children like Maya face and how a community helps these children succeed as Angelou did. Psychologist Chris Boyatzis has reported using Caged Bird to supplement scientific theory and research in the instruction of child development topics such as the development of self-concept and self-esteem, ego resilience, industry versus inferiority, effects of abuse, parenting styles, sibling and friendship relations, gender issues, cognitive development, puberty, and identity formation in adolescence. He found the book a "highly effective" tool for providing real-life examples of these psychological concepts.

Style and genre

Angelou's use of fiction-writing techniques such as dialogue, characterization, and development of theme, setting, plot, and language has often resulted in the placement of her books into the genre of authobiographical fiction, but Angelou has characterized them as authobiographies. As Lauret has stated, Angelou made a deliberate attempt in her books to challenge the common structure of the autobiography by critiquing, changing, and expanding the genre. Angelou has also recognized that there are fictional aspects to her books. Angelou has acknowledged that she has followed the slave narrative tradition of "speaking in the first-person singular talking about the first-person plural, always saying I meaning 'we”. Hagen places Angelou in the long tradition of African American autobiography, but insists that she has created a unique interpretation of the autobiographical form.

THE PHENOMENAL WOMAN

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Same as with Maya Angelou an filipino poet Leona Florentino wrote poems started with first verses in Ilocano at a young age. Despite her potential, she was not allowed to receive a university education because of her gender. Florentino was instead tutored by her mother, and then a series of private teachers. An educated Ilocano priest taught her advanced Spanish and encouraged her to develop her voice in poetry.

Due to the feminist nature of her writings, Florentino was shunned by her husband and son, and so was forced to live alone in exile and separately from her family.

Her lyrical poetry in Spanish, especially in Ilocano, gained attention with their exhibition in various international forums in Spain, Paris and St. Louis, Missouri. Her literary contributions - particularly 22 preserved poems - were recognized when she was included in the Encyclopedia Internationale des Oeuvres des Femmes (International Encyclopedia of Women’s Works) in 1889. She is believed to be the first Filipino to receive this international recognition, a homage that occurred only after her untimely death.

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philo of ed

In my educational philosophy.

As a future teacher I have some goals that I need or have to achieve for my students, I have the role to mold and made them become a better, motivated and competitive individual so that they can attain worth reputation on whatever profession they might going to choose and want to become for their future. To be able for me to achieve the dreams of what I want to have for my students. An initiative first has to come about not just for me but for all of those who dream my dream and contextualize all the learning I have learned for my future career.

As a future educator, I was prescribed to learn and master all the content of my chosen career, to be a teacher. However, the global context of educational system has changed and it’s rapidly and oftentimes changing and the educational system of the Philippines was based on this global context of education. We are also into it because we want our students to be globally competitive and for be for them to become one the teacher has to teacher and deliver a globally competitive instruction. And me, as soon to become one I have to learn all the most important aspects that required for me grasp and have in mind.

In my philosophy of education, I have my rules and principles that I have to follow. This principle serves as my guide, a light that takes me to the right path of being a good teacher. First, I have to become a effective teacher. To become one I must have my own guide or pattern of being a good teacher, a conduct that I have to perceive inside the classroom situation. First, I must have a self controlled as to the mind, then self control in action, I also has to have tolerance, cheerfulness and lastly confidence. I have come up with this ideology because in an instance that I know myself well and I know these are the things or the aspects that I need to improve well to become a better instructor. These are facts that cannot easily dismantle by those of aspects that could discourage my way of teaching.

As part of my teacher training, I have had experience of teaching my target group in a natural classroom setting. Now as I prepare to take up your new teaching post, I look back on those days and try to list strengths and weaknesses during your teacher training. Did I talk too much and participate in some conducted seminars? Were my lesson plan are considerable enough? Did I capture the attention of the students while in conducting my practice teaching?

These are all questions you can ask yourself as you face your first "proper" classroom of students. If you talked too much, be prepared to ask more questions and allowing the students to have a greater role in the classroom. As such, your role will be as a facilitator, which is what all good teachers are. If your lesson plan goals were unrealistic, look at your lesson plans and try to tailor them to the age and level of the students you will be teaching. A lesson plan does not have to be very detailed to be practical. It simply needs to have a basic outline of what you intend to accomplish during the lesson

the lion makers

Long, long ago, there lived four friends. They were fond of each other and spent much of their time together. Three of them were very learned. They knew so much that they thought there was nothing more to learn. But, for all their learning, they lacked common sense. The fourth friend, on the other hand, was not at all keen to learn, but had a lot of common sense.
One day, the four friends discussed how they could use their learning to earn money and better themselves. One of the learned men said they should travel far and wide, see the world and meet the people of different countries. During their travels, they might win the favour of kings and nobles, and thus amass great wealth. All of them agreed it was a good idea.
The man added, "We three have studied everything and we are sure to do well during our travels. But what about this ignorant fellow? He does not know anything. He will be a burden on us."
The second learned man replied, "Let him stay at home. What shall we gain by taking him?"
But the third said, "That is not the way to treat a friend. It is true he has not learnt anything, but he has been our friend from childhood. We must not leave him behind."
So the four friends set out on a long, long journey and soon they were passing through a dense forest. There they found lying on the ground, the bones of a dead animal. One of the friends said, "Here is a chance to test our knowledge. These are the remains of a dead animal. Let us bring it back to life."
Then the first learned man said, "I know how to put the bones together."
The second said, "I will take care of the skin, flesh, and blood."
And the third said, "I can bring the animal back to life."
So the first one assembled the bones; and the second provided the skin, flesh, and blood.
The third was about to bring the animal back to life, when the fourth shouted, "Stop! It is a lion! Don't bring it back to life!"
"You are just a fool," cried the third learned man. "What do you know about these things? Do you think I can't bring a lion back to life? I can and I shall!"
"Then please wait a minute," said the ignorant fellow and he climbed up a tall tree.
Then the learned man brought the lion back to life. It was huge lion. It stood up and looked at the three men. With a mighty roar, he pounced on them and killed all of them.
When the lion left, the clever man, who was considered a 'fool' by his friends, descended from the tree and went safely home.

I never thought when and or why..
because, it only passes by, and said everything has a purpose to
why such thing to anyone has to feel and go through.
But why? it is still hurting me, even though.
my love isn't that pure to show, but then it is true.
my inside is more than a crystal clear water flowed in the streams.
and as white as snow, unstained, despite of how many dirty feet step on it.
in the 10th of April, he is telling me goodbye, no matter how i tried to tell him, "No"! "not yet and don't go", and even though how hard it is for me to let him go, i know, i have to because he has to. decades have passed since he'd pulling himself to the gravel of all difficulties, and now it's his time to take some time for himself, to enjoy and to rest with all of those he loved and beloved. and i know he will always there watching me, and is always there with someone i know and i can say he's safe. it's been a long while since the last time i kissed him and told him i love you.

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"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

"The world can change in an instant. So can the way you choose to see it. Why not choose to see the good in yourself and others."

"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count."
"The #1 thing that stops people reaching their goals is "procrastination".

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are."

"Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out."

"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit." -Aristotle-

messed up

I am NOBODY!!!!
that is what they make me feel i am!
I always got underestimated, and always got insulted
because of what they think of me!!
insecurities? maybe!!
but it's no way to make me feel that i am a nobody...
maybe its because, i am not what they expected me to be,
and they don't want to meet people like me, a one hell of a messed....
Time after time i am trying to take the best out of me, of making everything alright.
every move that i make, every step that i take
and everything what people want me to do for them, is all turns to be right
trying my best to be like someone else and to be a somebody.
I am also trying my best of somehow people would exempt me
of my disabilities.
trying my best to be part of other peoples world, but only some
are those who allowed me to get in and accept me the way i am.
"Understanding"...yes!! to understand.
is all i want them to feel for me...to understand

memoirs on the racking chair

Everyday i went on the same place to spent the rest of my time alone, remembering past, view my mistakes and the charities i did to the other people.. all my life i dreamed to be a better and a successful person but seems nature won't gonna deal with me to achieve these kind dream.. i know that i need help, I actually been through counseling and talked to different people to come up with a solution but still its in me i supposed to be the one to find an answer for it