The 52 Projects

Hello all.

There is a website I want to share with you. It is a website that I could probably only describe as life changing, and in your last year on earth, of course you want everything to be life changing. This website is called http://52projects.com/, and it is basically for what is implied in the title. A guy sometime ago came up with 52 projects that would deepen the appreciation for what you have and expand your horizons. The projects can be as simple as underlining your favorite passages in a book to riding a train to a random place and taking pictures of your destination. All of them provide a somewhat different perspective on things, though. I know I'm definitely planning on trying some of them during the summer when I have more free time. I would challenge you to do the same and see what the projects can do for your life.

Love,

Sarah.

College and Juggling and Poems, Oh My!

Hello everyone!

I’m going to be upfront. Life has been stressful and busy lately. What with graduation coming up and school being that much harder, with all other activities and juggling at the same time personal negatives, it got a bit overwhelming for a while. Nevertheless, I am feeling chipper as ever again and looking forward to getting back on board with my life. It got chaotic and disorganized and I needed to pull myself back together. But here I am again.

College for me has been a big thing lately. Recently, over the weekend, I went to my school, Millersville University, for another open house solely for admitted students. I am looking forward to it. I’m sure most of you have been through this process, and many are going to go through. Experience is the best teacher, I suppose. I wouldn’t be able to do it alone, though. I have many thanks towards those who are helping me get prepared for this step. And a huge step it is!

How was university or graduating secondary school for all of you?

On another note, I got help from a teacher and she taught me to juggle! I know I wrote something like that on here not that long ago, and it was a pretty amazing and rewarding feeling to be able to actually do something I’ve wanted to do for quite some time. I still need consistent practice (I am still not that great, but it is a work in progress), but I am not worried. It was a very basic process. Start with one ball, and throw it from the dominant hand to the other hand. The most important part from early on was to develop a good, easy toss that arced right about eye level. My teacher stressed that the most. Once one ball was down, then naturally two came in the progression. The hint that she gave then was to develop a good rhythm with the balls: when one is at the peak of its arc, throw the other. Even speak out loud if you have to. That part took the most practice, but once you had the rhythm and the easy toss down, getting three balls in wasn’t hard at all. The best part was, none of this took all that much time. She taught me in one class period and by the end of the class I was throwing three balls through a couple cycles. But, as I said, practice is key, so I have to be consistent with that.

Also, something that has been going on this whole month: National Poetry Writing Month, also known as NaPoWriMo or 30/30 (pronounced thirty thirty). Basically what happens the entire month is you write one poem a day. It’s a pretty daunting task, but very worth it once you see all the awesome poems that you can produce by the end of the month. It’s a little late in the month for those of you who haven’t previously heard of this, but there is always next year, and I would highly encourage participation. For those who do, I would love to read your poems! I will post a couple of mine on here some other day, maybe on the last day I will post my favorite. In the mean time, link me to blogs you know of or you like, and I will share them on here and take a look. Here is the  NaPoWriMo website: http://www.napowrimo.net/.

It’s nice to be writing again, I’ve missed all of you.

How have you been?

Adieu,

Sarah.

Summer Is Coming

I love summer.
But even more than I love summer, I desperately love Calvin and Hobbes.
I highly recommend that you read this lovely comic.
It is life changing.
It is good to be back.