I've no idea how my "what do you know about war" class writing assignment will turn out. After seeing most of the class standing in somewhat of a befuddled circle, I'm really curios about what they write once we get back to class.



Pt1: What do you think/feel/know about war?



My 5min. response -

I try not to think about war, but I listen to NPR too often not to think about it.I like people like the guy portrayed in the movie "Machine Gun Preacher". When I think about war, I think about saving children.

Pt2: After you visit to Veterans Park, what do you think/feel/know about war?



My 15min. response -

The first image shows a memorial with a quote telling us how to end wars. However, I think it's too simple and clear for us to pull it off.


The second image shows a memorial with two blank sides. It is depressing because it stands as a blank slate waiting to be filled with names of those who will lose their lives in future wars. These blank slates accompany to sides with names of soldiers, one each dedicated to our U.S. war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.


War sucks. Now I imagine that if we save all the children from war, we will also save all the people and will not have to use the two blank sides of this memorial.

Opinion...

Parents holding onto leashes attached to children in full upper body harness restraints SCREAM "I have no freaking clue how to raise a human! Please get me help before this child-thing turns 5 and I unleash it into the general population and start sleeping with my door locked!!! I'm an idiot and should've never birthed/adopted/opened that basket left on my doorstep! I'm sorry society; slap me silly and enroll me in a parenting class the next time you see me and my kid-on-a-leash at the mall or anywhere in public!"

Greetings:

Everything about this post is a no-no; however, I accidentally took a nap from about 8:23pm to 11ish and hence I'm awake! After irritating my teenaged daughters with rusty versions of the lullabies they enjoyed in their toddler-hood, I turned to poking around my social media outlets.

Am I glad I did? Yes! I found this wonderful article on linked in about the rising trend of hiring English majors. I posted it on twitter and Facebook then I read the article and was happy me reflexive posting was okay given what I read in the article.

As I read the article, I thought I should post a blog entry about it using my phone even though it only had 13% batter life left (10% now). I liked this challenged even though all aspects if such a writing assignment aggevates my dyslexia... Because the task could potentially tire me enough to go to sleep...and later, after I read what I wrote, I might learn my lesson about taking late evening naps that leave me looking for intellectual stimulation at 2AM.

Click Here for the article.

--summum bonum (my phone now has 4% battery life...goodnight/morning)