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		<title>L: Longing &#8211; What It&#8217;s Really Like</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is part of a series titled, “A-B-Cs – What It’s Really Like”. Each week a new letter and its word will be revealed. Each word’s explanation will illustrate significant personal meaning, application and ultimately demonstrate, What It’s Really Like…  This will only take a second. Usually when you long for something the feeling is often short-lived and temporary. What happens when the longing feeling has been lingering for a long, long time? I’ve been longing for: &#8230;a place where mulch beds outnumber pine straw landscaping &#8230;where the most popular cars are not Mercedes, BMW, and Lexus but instead Ford, Chevy, and Barely Runs &#8230;places where I don’t primarily need GPS to help me find a destination &#8230;a place where 12 mile drives aren’t 45-60 minute commutes &#8230;a family get together not requiring 6-months of planning &#8230;Grandparent visits &#8230;small town diners with placemats that advertise businesses I recognize &#8230;a profession in which you are respected and appreciated &#8230;an occupation with clear, reachable directives not moving targets unattainable of achieving &#8230;outdoor spaces for my sons to play that aren’t the size of postage stamps and restricted by uniform picket fences &#8230;“running to town” &#8230;seasons &#8230;start to finish rainy days &#8230;the smell of fresh cut hay &#8230;summer fires &#8230;autumn leaves &#8230;hoodies and sweatshirts &#8230;homegrown friendships &#8230;the beautiful struggle of rural living &#8230;Home.]]></description>
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		<title>An Old Man in a Music Video Once Said&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kassidy Everard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon I was listening to music on YouTube for the first time in a while. I usually have my music on my phone, that way I can listen to it on the go. I didn&#8217;t realize how much I missed watching videos on YouTube until I stumbled across Craig Morgan&#8217;s &#8220;This Ain&#8217;t Nothing&#8221; music video. I remember listening to this song when I was younger when it came on the radio. I don&#8217;t even think I liked it when I was that young, because I didn&#8217;t put the deeper meaning with it. In fact, I didn&#8217;t truly put the deeper meaning in it until last year, the most recent time I heard it before today. I feel like Craig Morgan has a lot going for him. He is a respectable person, he is a talented musician, and he manages to stay away from the drama of what seems to be the life of being famous. Not only that, but he is also a pretty good-looking man. With that being said, I think we can all agree than I&#8217;ve made you wait long enough to see what old man I am talking about. In the music video, Craig sings about a reporter who interviews an elderly man after a twister passes through Birmingham where he lives. The twister destroyed his home and everything in it. The reporter asks the man: Tell the folks please mister, what are you gonna do, now that this twister has taken all that&#8217;s dear to you? But the reporter got an answer that he never expected&#8230; The old man just smiled and said, Boy let me tell you something, this ain&#8217;t nothing&#8230; This old man, you know, seems pretty tough. He didn&#8217;t cry like the audience would have thought. He didn&#8217;t ignore the question like some would have thought. He just answered honestly, in his purest form. Most of us would cry, knowing that we just lost everything we have ever worked for. Knowing that every single penny we put into building a foundation is now gone. But some people always decide to see the good in every single situation that is horrific. The old man explains why he thinks that the twister that hit his house is nothing. He said: I lost my daddy, when I was eight years old, That cave-in at the Kincaid mine left a big old hole, And I lost my baby brother, my best friend and my left hand In a no win situation in a place called Vietnam And last year I watched my loving wife, of fifty years waste away and die And I held her hand til her heart of gold stopped pumping, So this ain&#8217;t nothing. This old man lost just about everything he had. His wife, his brother, his dad, his left hand, and his best friend. Little do we realize that when we lose even one person in our life we think that it is the end of the world. Losing anyone, no matter what way, has a toll on our minds forever. This old man stuck through everything and kept going. Even the hardest things to deal with didn&#8217;t keep him from living his life even if there wasn&#8217;t much of it left to live or wasn&#8217;t anyone else to live for. But why would you need someone to live for? Why did living for yourself and your own benefit become almost unrealistic? Toward the end of the song is when I started to tear up. Not because I realized what was said in the beginning of the song, but because I realized how much truth was in the words that this man was saying. This man was on his own because everyone he had in his life had died. As did his wife, just the year before. When he looked down on the ground, He reached down in the rubble and picked up a photograph Wiped the dirt off of it with the hand that he still had He put it to his lips and said man she was something But this ain&#8217;t nothing This man, he knew. He knew what it was like to want for something that he couldn&#8217;t have. He knew how it was to have a love that money couldn&#8217;t buy. This man saw the difference between something that truly mattered and something that really didn&#8217;t. The old man&#8217;s last words in the song are what truly got to me. He said, This ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; time won&#8217;t erase And this ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; money can&#8217;t replace Money. We all think money is what runs the world. As that is true, there are many things that money cannot buy &#8211; here are a few&#8230; 1. Love 2. Happiness 3. Respect 4. Trust 5. Value 6. Memories 7. Life So that should leave you with the thought, &#8220;Well, what can money buy?&#8221; Money can buy almost everything that isn&#8217;t a necessary tool for healthy relationships or a healthy life. This man knows what the genuine value of something is. He knows that it will just take money to bring back his house, but that no amount of money in the world will bring back his wife or his brother or his father and his best friend. Money never brought this man happiness. And little by little his happiness was taken away from him throughout life. Not by things money could buy, but by things it couldn&#8217;t. It is sad to believe that we rely on money to control any part of our happiness. How about we try to think like this man for a day in our lives. Oh, what difference it would make! &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Make This Common Word A Little Less Common</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2015 22:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate the R word, and I mean despise it. I know there is an actual definition to the word, but the way in which people use it is really offensive. The slang for it&#8230; the connotation is negative, and hurtful, and ignorant. The word retardreally pushes my buttons. People who use it in a negative, demeaning manner&#8230;really push my buttons. The word is not meant to put people down, and it&#8217;s not meant to define or categorize a person as less than intelligent. The definition of the words is this to delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment. To refer to someone as retarded, as I have heard many people do, stabs me in a place of my heart that I can&#8217;t quite begin to describe. It&#8217;s a tender place, that&#8217;s full of light and hope. (I know that sounds super corny, but it&#8217;s what I imagine this place looks like! ) This is a place where all people are accepted for who they are and not judged or picked on. My youngest brother, Josh, has Fragile X Syndrome. It is a genetic condition that runs in my family, I actually have multiple other family members (cousins and distant cousins) that either have it, or are carriers of the gene. Fragile X syndrome is a genetic condition that causes intellectual disability, behavioral and learning challenges and various physical characteristics. Though FXS occurs in both genders, males are more frequently affected than females, and generally with greater severity. Fragile X affects 1 in 4,000 males, and 1 in 8,000 females. It is just recently something that can be mentioned in conversation without people looking at you like you&#8217;re an alien with glowing purple horns. Growing up with a sibling that is &#8220;different&#8221; was hard, extremely hard!! As a child you want to think that people are nice and kind hearted, but unfortunately that isn&#8217;t always the case. Josh attended the same school as my other brothers and myself, but was in the special education classes, or intermediate unit, he was not main streamed. Most people didn&#8217;t even know that Josh was our brother, they knew my two other brothers but Josh was &#8220;different&#8221;. I very specifically remember school bus rides. Josh would get upset over something, anything, and he reached over, ripped off my other brothers glasses and threw them out the school bus window!! And this happened on more than one occasion! After we moved into another house, kids that were much younger in age than Josh, but pretty close to the same mentality, would stop and ask if Josh could come out to play. At first we were excited, thinking that he was finally being accepted and that he was getting outside to play with other kids, until we realized that these kids were telling him they were playing hide-n-seek, telling him to hide in the woods, and THEY LEFT HIM THERE!!! FOR HOURS!!! My parents called the police because we couldn&#8217;t find him! Josh used to get picked on a lot, but luckily he had three older siblings who ALWAYS stood up for him, and who always will stand up for him. I know that kids can be cruel, but parents PLEASE teach your kids respect, and kindness, and to stick up for people that are being bullied. Unfortunately people use the &#8220;R&#8221; word too often. They use it without thinking who it may be hurting. People with Down&#8217;s Syndrome are so genuinely sweet and positive, and would never even think to utter words that may be hurtful to someone else. Before just jokingly saying &#8216;it&#8217;, think to yourself if it&#8217;s really something that needs to be said. If there is ever any questions, do some research on Fragile X, and even get to know someone with it! I promise you that it will change how you look at things, and it will show you a piece of the world that you didn&#8217;t even know existed, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s done for me. Let&#8217;s try to make this world a little better place for EVERYONE, not just some.]]></description>
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