Explanation...

I keep a regular journal but realize that paper is fragile and the internet is unstoppable so in an effort to insure some of my junk I'm digitizing it. (I'm so modern.) Some of my entries will be posted on this blog.... as you (whoever you are) will find out.

I HAVE A BLOG!

It's true! I do have a blog! You may not believe me... but here we are. I've come a long way since 7th grade. Senior Year at least. I feel ready. I believe it. And I'm excited. High school has been a challenge. Intense, constant, a burden. But just this year. AND I"M OFF INTO LIFE!! I'm terrified! And I'm ecstatic! ....ecstatic....

See, this is my hang up with blogging. Its censored. Because I know there is some chance... however remote that ANYONE can read this I subconsciously am constantly editing. Blogs are insufficient substitutes for journals. I am a big believer in the power of a blank book. Or even a blank page. It is the start of creation. And CREATION! Is what we are and what we do and why we are! It's incredible!

Wow... imagine someone reading this. A reader. That is the power of blogs. People love attention! And they can assume (or hope) that some bored person someone in the world has chanced upon their rambling and found it worthwhile, whether entertaining, profound, or of interest.

What do people even put in blogs?? What a dumb word "BLOG".... one would think that with this incredible system, THE INTERNET, there would be a certain level of sophistication.... Google??? Wiki? YouTube? ....new, catchy, interesting, simple.

After all "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." (Leonardo Da Vinci) A Genius....

Pictures of past summer

<---- This is my sisters, mom and I at a end of the summer party this past summer of ´07.

Other Poems

African City

The sun shines
Brightly
Beating down
On the children
To a school.
Trees line the
Streets providing
A meager
Shade.
Grass grows
Lush in the
Red brown
Earth.
Men walk
In search
Of work.
Flowers and
Birds sing.
They dance
Displaying
the many
colors of
Pretoria.

THE Tree

A place, a thing
Ancient, Old, Wise
And Magnificent.
Standing Strong
Against the Winds
And Currents
Of Time.

Leafy green boughs
Protecting those who
Rest on its arms
Holding gently, protecting
Against the harsh wild
summer sun. A
coolness is found
Here
in
THE tree.

KINDIA poem

KINDIA

KINDIA
OBLIVIOUS, HONEST
DRAW, EXPLORE, WRITE
EXUBERANT, DRAMATIC, CURIOUS, SEARCHING
KINDIA

Junk I like

I love a bunch of stuff and all kind of depends on where I am in my life, but I think that my ultimate favorites would be these.............

~writing - I love to write and create my own stories. As some great quote once said,"Write the story you most desperately want to read." Not word for word but close enough.

~ art - My whole family is really into art. My mom, and Oma are painters and my great Aunt was a great painter in South Africa. I mostly draw right now though because I really don't have the money to go all fancy

~animals - I have always been enchanted by animals, the other creature that we live with, every day. I personally have a dog, a fish and a hamster. My sister has 5 birds, and my other sister has a fish (doesn't everybody). Sadly I am kind of allergic to cats so I can't really get one, but I still love them.

~blue - I love blue! I think its a great color especially dark, dark blue. I also like brown, and green, and red and black, but as I said before it depends on what kind of mood I am in. Or how old I am, I used to be obsessed with BRIGHT red. Now I kind of like more of a darker, deeper red.

~all food practically - especially Mexican, and Italian, but I also really like Indian and Thai. But I'll seriously eat almost anything

~ books - I read a lot, pretty much ever since I could. I mostly like fantasy, though. Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse, and His Dark Materials Trilogy, are just a few things I like to read.

So, yeah.....That's basically it but I'll probably come back with more. bye...