Something to think about this weekend.
What kind of ripples are you making?
Video and voice: Elizabeth Jones
Music by: Ronald Jenkees
10 years ago
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Snow more school!
Er... I mean, no more school.
Here in Indiana, we've been hit with quite the snowstorm. In one day, one 24-hour period, we got 14" of snow. Then it went away. Then it came back, more snow!!! Soo for the past 3 days(Wed., Thurs., and Fri.) almost all of the local schools have been closed including mine. Thought I would share this experience with ya'll in the blogging community. Below are some pictures of the Snowstorm of 09'
Here in Indiana, we've been hit with quite the snowstorm. In one day, one 24-hour period, we got 14" of snow. Then it went away. Then it came back, more snow!!! Soo for the past 3 days(Wed., Thurs., and Fri.) almost all of the local schools have been closed including mine. Thought I would share this experience with ya'll in the blogging community. Below are some pictures of the Snowstorm of 09'
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Music Pick Of The Week-#1
This week, I decided on a song that I have been listening to. I had watched the premier of Scrubs a few weeks ago and the closing song got stuck in my head. I couldn't figure out what it was, so I had to look it up. Here it is.
I'll Follow You Into The Dark
by Death Cab For Cutie
I'll Follow You Into The Dark
by Death Cab For Cutie
Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles brusied by a lady in black
And I held my toungue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back
If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
Cause we'll hold each other soon
The blackest of rooms
If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark
I think the song speaks of following this girl into the afterlife, even if no one wants her.
What do you think?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The Fray, Hope, Honesty, and Interpression
I found God on the corner of First in Amistad
Where the west was all but one.
All alone,
Smoking his last cigarette,
I said "Where you been?"
He said, "Ask anything."
Where were you
when everything was falling apart?
All my days,
spent by the telephone.
that never rang.
All i needed was a call
that never came.
The corner of First and Amistad...
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor,
surrounded, surrounded.
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
just a little late...
You found me, you found me
In the end,
everyone ends up alone.
Losing her,
the only one who's ever known
who i am, who im not, who i wanna be.
The way to know
how long she will be next to me...
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me.
Lying on the floor,
surround me, surround me.
why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late,
You found me, you found me.
Early morning,
city breaks.
I've been calling
for years and years and years and years.
You never left me no messages;
you never send me no letters;
you got some kind of nerve
taking all of our love.
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me
L ying on the floor,
Where were you? Where were you?
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me.
lying on the floor,
surround me, surround me.
Why'd you have to wait?
Were were you? Where were you?
Just a little late,
you found me, you found me.
Why'd you have to wait,
To find me?
To find me?
Listen to the song here
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Whoa. You're not supposed to talk to God like that... right?
Maybe it's not that we complain to God, maybe it's what he wants us to. What if He can take it? We all need a shoulder to lean on, why can't ours be God? Maybe God can handle my pain and my questions. Maybe God would prefer the most honest version of me.
I'm not sure what you believe about God, or conversations with God... Perhaps that's a separate conversation. I guess I'm just writing to say that it's okay to be honest, that pain shouldn't stay silent. Questions shouldn't stay silent. We need to say these things out loud. Perhaps hope or healing or even faith, perhaps it begins there, with honesty.
Change begins here, will you join us?
Help is here.
Help is here.
Help is here.
Where the west was all but one.
All alone,
Smoking his last cigarette,
I said "Where you been?"
He said, "Ask anything."
Where were you
when everything was falling apart?
All my days,
spent by the telephone.
that never rang.
All i needed was a call
that never came.
The corner of First and Amistad...
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor,
surrounded, surrounded.
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
just a little late...
You found me, you found me
In the end,
everyone ends up alone.
Losing her,
the only one who's ever known
who i am, who im not, who i wanna be.
The way to know
how long she will be next to me...
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me.
Lying on the floor,
surround me, surround me.
why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late,
You found me, you found me.
Early morning,
city breaks.
I've been calling
for years and years and years and years.
You never left me no messages;
you never send me no letters;
you got some kind of nerve
taking all of our love.
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me
L ying on the floor,
Where were you? Where were you?
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me.
lying on the floor,
surround me, surround me.
Why'd you have to wait?
Were were you? Where were you?
Just a little late,
you found me, you found me.
Why'd you have to wait,
To find me?
To find me?
Listen to the song here
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Whoa. You're not supposed to talk to God like that... right?
Maybe it's not that we complain to God, maybe it's what he wants us to. What if He can take it? We all need a shoulder to lean on, why can't ours be God? Maybe God can handle my pain and my questions. Maybe God would prefer the most honest version of me.
I'm not sure what you believe about God, or conversations with God... Perhaps that's a separate conversation. I guess I'm just writing to say that it's okay to be honest, that pain shouldn't stay silent. Questions shouldn't stay silent. We need to say these things out loud. Perhaps hope or healing or even faith, perhaps it begins there, with honesty.
Change begins here, will you join us?
Help is here.
Help is here.
Help is here.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Making Money on The Rapture?
I saw this and of course I had to stop and look.
http://youvebeenleftbehind.com/
It's a website that you can start a profile and set up messages and emails, so that when you are raptured, it will send emails to your friends and family that have been left behind about the Good News.
Services Overview
We have set up a system to send documents by the email, to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the "Rapture" of the Church. This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail to log in over a 3 day period. Another 3 days are given to fail safe any false triggering of the system.
We give you 150mb of encrypted storage that can be sent to 12 possible email addresses, in Box #1. You up load any documents and choose which documents go to who. You can edit these documents at any time and change the addresses they will be sent to as needed. Box #1 is for your personal private letters to your closest lost friends and relatives.
We give you another 100mb. of unencrypted storage that can be sent to up to 50 email addresses, in Box #2. You can edit the documents and the addresses any time. Box #2 is for more generic documents to lost family & friends.
The cost is $40 for the first year. Re-subscription will be reduced as the number of subscribers increases. Tell your friends about You've Been left behind.
I know you've seen the price tag, and you may be wondering, "Is it worth it?" Here's what you get...
Document storage and "Rapture" triggered email messaging system.
* Store up to 250mb of documents
* Send to up to 62 individual email addresses
* 150Mb encrypted document storage
* 100mb unencrypted document storage
* You can edit documents any time
* Write your own documents or choose from some of ours
Thoughts anyone????
"I am Zane and I am.......relevant."
http://youvebeenleftbehind
It's a website that you can start a profile and set up messages and emails, so that when you are raptured, it will send emails to your friends and family that have been left behind about the Good News.
Services Overview
We have set up a system to send documents by the email, to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the "Rapture" of the Church. This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail to log in over a 3 day period. Another 3 days are given to fail safe any false triggering of the system.
We give you 150mb of encrypted storage that can be sent to 12 possible email addresses, in Box #1. You up load any documents and choose which documents go to who. You can edit these documents at any time and change the addresses they will be sent to as needed. Box #1 is for your personal private letters to your closest lost friends and relatives.
We give you another 100mb. of unencrypted storage that can be sent to up to 50 email addresses, in Box #2. You can edit the documents and the addresses any time. Box #2 is for more generic documents to lost family & friends.
The cost is $40 for the first year. Re-subscription will be reduced as the number of subscribers increases. Tell your friends about You've Been left behind.
I know you've seen the price tag, and you may be wondering, "Is it worth it?" Here's what you get...
Document storage and "Rapture" triggered email messaging system.
* Store up to 250mb of documents
* Send to up to 62 individual email addresses
* 150Mb encrypted document storage
* 100mb unencrypted document storage
* You can edit documents any time
* Write your own documents or choose from some of ours
Thoughts anyone????
"I am Zane and I am.......relevant."
Sunday, January 25, 2009
A collection of thoughts.
This is a collection of thoughts over the past 6 months-1 year that I have compiled for you. I am not a great writer or an author by any means. Understand that I only want to express myself, and I am not trying to publish a book. If I discredit someone or do not use proper grammar, please don’t criticize me, and most of all, please do not discredit me because I do not write as a professional author. Enjoy=)
I recently did a google search on the #1 kids toy and one of the first to come up was one of the Bratz dolls. I went and visited the Bratz website and realized that I found lot of today’s toys to be disgusting. The Bratz website includes a link to a social networking area for kids called BeBratz. This is a website for kids who have just bought a Bratz doll, similar to the Webkins epidemic. The Bratz dolls are all affiliated with fashion, and if you read each dolls biography, you'll see that some of these fictitious girls wish to become fashion designers or models for fashion companies. On the BeBratz website, I have found that every time you log out of the website, it gives you their log-out message including their log-off message "Take care, keep it real, and above all else, be beautiful!" This leaves one to wonder that maybe, they're trying to say that fashion and being beautiful have something to do with each other. Little girls are buying these dolls and dressing like them, in efforts to become "beautiful." Is that what we are teaching our kids when we get them a toy? Now, I see that it is one thing for a kid to have a role model, but it is just sickening that they are trying to force upon our youth of the nation that they have to dress a certain way or act in a certain way to be considered beautiful.
Bratz's leading competitor Barbie, is another one of these dolls that alter our perception. The Barbie doll has always been one of the most liked dolls around the U.S., not to mention the world. But these dolls put out a perception that all people have to look a certain way in order to fit in. Why should someone have to alter the way that they look to be cool?
This is not an isolated incident. Toys are not the only things that have a bead effect on our youth. Hello! Have you ever heard of Disney Channel!?! You know, that thing that your children watch everyday to enjoy their favorite shows. Sure, you could argue that some of these shows are OK, but they should all be OK.
If you live with a girl between the ages of 4 and 17 or are in the range of 5 miles of one then you probably have heard of the Hannah Montana epidemic. Have you ever noticed how she is TWO PEOPLE! One the one hand, she is Miley Stewart, a lame girl at her school with a few friends. And then she changes who she is to become Hannah Montana, a superstar girl with billions of friends and fans. This just further pushes the facade that we have to be rich, famous, or extremely talented to have many friends.
We need to teach our children some good, classic family values. What happened to the days when we were appreciated for being ourselves, and didn’t have to be materialistic, snotty, little brats (no pun intended) just to be friendly? I think that a large portion of this is partly a family’s problem, and maybe an education problem. Oprah Winfrey once said about the American education system, “I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. ... If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod, sneakers, or some money. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.”
We need to have an appreciation for what we have, not for what we want. In the Sheryl Crow song, “Soak Up the Sun,” she writes, “It's not having what you want, It's wanting what you've got” We need to take what we have and use it for a grater good. I’ve got an idea, instead of buying more stuff, why don’t we use what we have? For the past 6 weeks, I have worn a different every day of the week without repeating all 6 weeks. I have worn 42 different shirts in the past week, and I have more to go. I didn’t realize how much I had until I started my anti-poverty protest. Given these are shirts I have accumulated over the past 4 or 5 years, however, it doesn’t change that fact of the matter that I have a lot more materially than I thought. With the exception of a class t-shirt, I have not bought any new clothes in the past 3 months, and I have bought any more than 3 items in the past 9 months. If I can do this materialistically, who’s to say that I don’t discredit myself by not owning up to myself? How do I know I cannot do something, maybe I am just not trying hard enough?
Matt Thiessen, lead singer of Relient K, once wrote, ”I just want to get mugged at knife point, to get cut enough to wake me up, cause I know that I don't want to die, sitting around watching my life go by, and what we take from this is what we'll get and we haven't quite figured it out just yet, because all of us are all too stuck, strapped to a chair watching our lives blow up”. I think that it’s time. We need to wake up. Maybe you don’t understand. WE NEED TO WAKE UP! This is our time, this is our planet, and these are our bodies! We need to use what we have now to better us for the future. We often pass the blame to other people. It is nobody else’s problem. We control what we do. “He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”(Orwell’s 1984) We need to start taking responsibility for our own actions.
In conclusion, all I really have to say is this:
Thank you for taking the time to listen to me. I do not know who you are. I do not know where you are, or what you are like, but I do know this. I know 2 people off the top of my head that love you. I love you. I wish the best for you. I really do. The other is God. God loves you. He loves you just the way you are and wouldn’t have it any other way. He loves you so much, that he sent his only son to die for you. He suffered the same pain as his son did. He did this for everyone in the world. The truth is…He would have done it even if it was only you. That’s how much He loves you. May God bless you in all that you do.
-Zane
"I am Zane and I am.......concerned."
I recently did a google search on the #1 kids toy and one of the first to come up was one of the Bratz dolls. I went and visited the Bratz website and realized that I found lot of today’s toys to be disgusting. The Bratz website includes a link to a social networking area for kids called BeBratz. This is a website for kids who have just bought a Bratz doll, similar to the Webkins epidemic. The Bratz dolls are all affiliated with fashion, and if you read each dolls biography, you'll see that some of these fictitious girls wish to become fashion designers or models for fashion companies. On the BeBratz website, I have found that every time you log out of the website, it gives you their log-out message including their log-off message "Take care, keep it real, and above all else, be beautiful!" This leaves one to wonder that maybe, they're trying to say that fashion and being beautiful have something to do with each other. Little girls are buying these dolls and dressing like them, in efforts to become "beautiful." Is that what we are teaching our kids when we get them a toy? Now, I see that it is one thing for a kid to have a role model, but it is just sickening that they are trying to force upon our youth of the nation that they have to dress a certain way or act in a certain way to be considered beautiful.
Bratz's leading competitor Barbie, is another one of these dolls that alter our perception. The Barbie doll has always been one of the most liked dolls around the U.S., not to mention the world. But these dolls put out a perception that all people have to look a certain way in order to fit in. Why should someone have to alter the way that they look to be cool?
This is not an isolated incident. Toys are not the only things that have a bead effect on our youth. Hello! Have you ever heard of Disney Channel!?! You know, that thing that your children watch everyday to enjoy their favorite shows. Sure, you could argue that some of these shows are OK, but they should all be OK.
If you live with a girl between the ages of 4 and 17 or are in the range of 5 miles of one then you probably have heard of the Hannah Montana epidemic. Have you ever noticed how she is TWO PEOPLE! One the one hand, she is Miley Stewart, a lame girl at her school with a few friends. And then she changes who she is to become Hannah Montana, a superstar girl with billions of friends and fans. This just further pushes the facade that we have to be rich, famous, or extremely talented to have many friends.
We need to teach our children some good, classic family values. What happened to the days when we were appreciated for being ourselves, and didn’t have to be materialistic, snotty, little brats (no pun intended) just to be friendly? I think that a large portion of this is partly a family’s problem, and maybe an education problem. Oprah Winfrey once said about the American education system, “I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. ... If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod, sneakers, or some money. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.”
We need to have an appreciation for what we have, not for what we want. In the Sheryl Crow song, “Soak Up the Sun,” she writes, “It's not having what you want, It's wanting what you've got” We need to take what we have and use it for a grater good. I’ve got an idea, instead of buying more stuff, why don’t we use what we have? For the past 6 weeks, I have worn a different every day of the week without repeating all 6 weeks. I have worn 42 different shirts in the past week, and I have more to go. I didn’t realize how much I had until I started my anti-poverty protest. Given these are shirts I have accumulated over the past 4 or 5 years, however, it doesn’t change that fact of the matter that I have a lot more materially than I thought. With the exception of a class t-shirt, I have not bought any new clothes in the past 3 months, and I have bought any more than 3 items in the past 9 months. If I can do this materialistically, who’s to say that I don’t discredit myself by not owning up to myself? How do I know I cannot do something, maybe I am just not trying hard enough?
Matt Thiessen, lead singer of Relient K, once wrote, ”I just want to get mugged at knife point, to get cut enough to wake me up, cause I know that I don't want to die, sitting around watching my life go by, and what we take from this is what we'll get and we haven't quite figured it out just yet, because all of us are all too stuck, strapped to a chair watching our lives blow up”. I think that it’s time. We need to wake up. Maybe you don’t understand. WE NEED TO WAKE UP! This is our time, this is our planet, and these are our bodies! We need to use what we have now to better us for the future. We often pass the blame to other people. It is nobody else’s problem. We control what we do. “He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”(Orwell’s 1984) We need to start taking responsibility for our own actions.
In conclusion, all I really have to say is this:
- Love people for the way they are, and mean it.
- All you need is, what you want is, all you need is love. Everyday-Dave Matthews
- Appreciate what you have, because you don’t deserve it, but you do have it.
- It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got. -Sheryl Crow
- Take responsibility for your actions. We control what we do, and ultimately, that’s eternal.
- He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. -Winston Smith, Orwell’s 1984
Thank you for taking the time to listen to me. I do not know who you are. I do not know where you are, or what you are like, but I do know this. I know 2 people off the top of my head that love you. I love you. I wish the best for you. I really do. The other is God. God loves you. He loves you just the way you are and wouldn’t have it any other way. He loves you so much, that he sent his only son to die for you. He suffered the same pain as his son did. He did this for everyone in the world. The truth is…He would have done it even if it was only you. That’s how much He loves you. May God bless you in all that you do.
-Zane
"I am Zane and I am.......concerned."
Friday, January 23, 2009
First Post
This is the first post of my new blog. I have wanted a blog for a while now. I have had several reasons, and some of them better than others. I wanted to be able to log in to leave comments on others blogs, and I wanted to be able to share my view with everyone else. I really feel like this blog should be named something more like, "Confessions from someone other than Usher." or "Computer Confessional", because that's really what it is. It's a way for me to express myself in an appropriate matter. One of the things I want to do with this is to be able to talk about things. I also want to post a Music Pick of the week. I also want to work on some other things. I invite you to join me on this journey. Come along, It's gonna be fun.
"I am Zane and I am.....excited."
"I am Zane and I am.....excited."
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