christmas. :)

http://www.xmasclock.com/
copy and paste that link into the top bar thing where the website address is... and you will feel christmasy all over. :)

nutcrackers are christmasy too. just so ya know. :)

dance

dance is great. if you don't do it, try it. some people think it's  dumb. but it's not. so do it. you'll love it.

half day

today's great. REALLY great. :)

half day of school, you can never really go wrong with that. fact is, i take the bus so i wasted like 2 hrs of my day on it. but oh well. on normal days i'd still be at school. and as everyone says: be thankful.

hey. i'm back.

so yahhhh. sorry bout that. i haven't written in a while. 
i think i've gotten over the fact that summer left, because i know it'll come back. school's not the best, but it's not rotten. it's actually cool, i get to see my friends like every single day. cha-ching.

really cool picture. i think. :)

“If in the morning when you wake, If the sun does not appear, I will be here. If in the dark we lose sight of love, Hold my hand and have no fear, I will be here. I will be here, When you feel like being quiet, When you need to speak your mind I will list” -Steven Curtis Chapman

school

tomorrow is school. yuck. ew. gross. blah.

first day of highschool for me. fun timez.

well have a great first day of school tomorrow.

bye summer. 

i love to dance

dance can't be described by anything but dance

Cause He Always Hears

Everyone wants to be the best

They all want to beat the rest

You know that you’re a cool cat

But they don’t seem to realize that

You don’t really know that both you and they

Are truly models of precious clay

And you were made by the loving hand

Of the guy who is your biggest fan

You may think that your heart is all rock

Try getting drenched in the love of God

In the loudness of the busy world

Where no-one has listening ears

He is the best to talk to 

Your quietest whisper He always hears

So please don’t waste any more of your day

Take a bit of time to know the guy who gave you today

taylor deboer

i think i'm tired

No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees.
- Carole Borges

for the past while there have been random fireworks going of by my house. i don't know why. and i don't even know why i wrote that. i think i'm tired. 

love all your life. dance all your life. sing all your life. smile all your life. play all your life. laugh all your life. trust all your life. pray all your life. live all your life. <3

children tend to be sticky

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.  ~Fran Lebowitz

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
~Angela Schwindt

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million.  ~Walt Streightiff

love

love is patient. love is kind.  it does not envy. it does not boast. it is not proud. it is not rude. it is not self seeking. it is not easily angered. and it keeps no records of wrong. 


1 Corinthians 13:4ish


dude, if we were all exactly like that this world we would be so good. no honking car horns. no school bullies. no green monsters. no feeling less than others. no students yelling at teachers. more sharing. no fist fights. and the last one, 'it keeps no records of wrong'. i mean most of us don't have a journal the writes down every bad thing someone did to us. but we sort of do in our heads. like do you ever get it when you'll have a dream say your brother did something mean to you. then you'll wake up and be mad at him, and get annoyed when you see him. then you're like, wait, what am i mad about again? then you're like, 'oh. nice one. sorry kid but that was a dream'. i think we all have something inside us that reminds us of all those bad things, but why can't we just erase them and forgive. we need more forgiveness. 


really, to put it simple, we all just need more love. but thankfully, we've got this overflowing fountain of it. well more like a saviour who is just covered in this love stuff. it's like oozing out of him and falling on us. seriously, let it soak in nice and good, don't block it with that ugly umbrella named hate. Jesus wants to just cover us in his love, so why not let him?


'all you need is love' -quote a beetles song. God is love. so yes. all we need is love. 

make a trail

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

make your own trail. live your own life. go on an adventure. adventure can be anywhere, so go stake a claim on your own. adventure happens the moment you set foot out of that door of yours. in fact it sometimes happens inside that door.go, live your life, make a trail, and hop onto a ship and sail away to unknown worlds and islands. you never know what may happen.

are you listening?

"God gave us a mouth that closes and ears that don't - which should tell us something." - anonymous  

 sometimes i just don't want to listen to anything at all, except be in my own little world blasting soundtracks from my favourite movie.


usually i don't want to open up my ears to anybody telling me what i have to do and when i have to do it. 


for example:


my parent telling me which chores and why.


my french teacher going on and on in a french class.


feeling the sudden, strong urge to cover my ears when a parent is telling me something i've done wrong.


but there's times when i do want to listen. like when i'm curled up in bed, everything is completely dark, and thunder crashes above me while rain plunks on the roof. the music coming out of my laptop's speakers as i chat to friends or do my math. the funny noises my dog makes that i wish she'd just do over and over, because they're just so funny... being in a mall, and hearing one of your favourite songs start playing, and pausing to listen. that friend of yours who's laugh is amazing. the funny little things that little cousins say in they're squeaky, high voices. the sound of waves lapping up onto shore. the sound of the wind rustling through the leaves then blaring into you and weaving your hair through it's fingers. 


overall i think we should try to plug our ears as little as possible.

run for it

do ya ever get that choky, hot feeling in your throat when you're mad and just need to run? you feel like running would put a new hotness in your body and kick out that old mad  feeling. 

or do you ever get the heart pumps that trigger when you're listening to epic music. the kind of heart pumps that make you feel like you need to run away and be part of an epic battle at sea, or explore an unfound island?

"man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." ~ Andre Gide

i love the sea

me, my mom, and my sister visited the ocean today. it was beautiful. we dashed through it, water soaking our shorts and shirts. it was pure pleasure, and i could have stayed all day.


i love how the next three pictures
are all the same, yet so different.

on the walk home, we talked about how the sea is so cool, because it sounds so strong and the waves can pull you over. but to God, it's just like a little puddle. he can hold it in the palm of his hand. something as powerful as a crashing, roaring wave could never match with God. now i know why Captain Jack Sparrow loves the sea so much. i totally agree with him. it's ultra cool.

feet are so easy to take pictures of. like really. they don't accidentally close their eyes, or make a weird expression. but if you think about it, tuns of the funny pictures in the entire world wouldn't be as funny. think of all the pictures you laughed at because your face is totally distorted. but still, i like this pic. :)

Upside Down

If buttercups buzz'd after the bee

If boats were on land, churches on sea

If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows

And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse

If the mamas sold their babies

To the Gypsies for half a crown

If summer were spring

And the other way 'round

Then all the world would be upside down!

that is a British song that was played when they surrendered to the Americans, i believe. but don't go quoting me. i found it odd, and therefore i liked it. 

but my favourite quote about up and down would have to be this:

'up is down. well that's just maddeningly unhelpful. why are these things never clear?"
-Captain Jack Sparrow

audios. :)

there's always time to dance

dancing is to many things. it can be graceful or pounding. it can be loud or soft. it can be easy or hard. it can be ballet or jazz. lyrical or hip hop. you name it.


there's something special about dancing though. sometimes if you're dancing to just the right song, it sparks up inside of you.


sometimes i'll be sitting, doing school, and i'll just need to do a dance. and it's great.

but the best sort of dance, is a creative dance, for the creator of everything. he is the one who lights the spark that fires inside us, when we do anything for him.

the window watcher

my dog is obsessed with looking out the window. wether it's totally peaceful and the only thing moving is a slight breeze whispering through the trees, or another dog is prancing by. my dog loves looking out the windows. it's as if she signed a contract to protect this house from squirrels when we chose to adopt her from the humane society. at the slightest tap on the window sill, she'll jog on over and hop up. her eyes go wide like a baby's, and she leans over, totally transfixed on the outside world. you'll give her a pat and she'll give you a quick 'i love you glance' but then it's back to being a watch dog. squirrels, birds, dogs, humans... anything really. beware of the window watcher. :)

sometimes

do you sometimes feel you need to drop dead and just stop?

do you ever sometimes feel the sudden urge to get up and do that dance you've been choreographing?

do you ever sometimes feel that lovely peace that surrounds you when you lay in your bed and pray?

do you ever sometimes wonder what comes first, the chicken or the egg. (that one bugs me)

do you ever sometimes feel squeamish when you hear the expression "brain tickling".

sometimes i do.

school

i have a hunch i'll be doing school until the last possible minute today. i am definitely ready for summer. definitely. i miss sand, and water, sun, freeness. 
i'm on 117 of 123 lessons in math. it's a start.

see you soon summer.

imagine

imagine if...


everyone had no sense of smell


everything was in black and white


toothe-paste was chilli-powder flavoured


people had soup for breakfast and cereal for supper 


shoes were never invented


people didn't have names 


i'm a random person.

a photo shoooot

me and my sister decided to do a photoshoot.  a rather fun one. hope you enjoy the pics. :)

lovin' the outfit. and lawn-mower.

hey there

so yah. this is a new blog. it's probably not gonna be the best blog in the world, but i'll try my best. oh, just so yah know, this place is absolutely safe. you're not gonna open something up and be attacked by swear words or anything. :) k? sounds good to me too.