Father Time

year, my focus shifts to my long term goals. There are numerous achievements I aspire to accomplish throughout my lifetime, but my ultimate goal is to live a worthy life and return to my Heavenly Father. One goal I have aspired to achieve since I was a child, is to serve my Heavenly Father on a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints when I turn nineteen. I believe that “when you are on the Lord’s errands, you’re entitled to the Lord’s blessings.” When I return,…

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly,” said Alice Walker, and in our lives we constantly live in the present. We sometimes may dabble on about the future and reflect back on the past, but in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, many of its elder, traditionalist characters seem to be stuck in time whilst its young lovers are constantly out of time. From Capulet’s excitement to Romeo’s first sights, impulsiveness paired with recklessness riddle Verona’s streets and throw the entire…

challenges, the most efficient way to approach them is to tackle them head-on rather than trying to ignore them. It also explains that there comes a time in our lives when certain things become inevitable whether it be good-byes like in Miles’ case or times to move on from the past. At the time of his statement, Miles was saying his good-byes to his mother and father before moving away to Culver Creek High School. This quote connects to my life because while growing up, I have learned that by…

Throughout their journey they encounter many people and places that let you in on the family’s morals and attitudes. The family has six people traveling with them, this including; the grandmother, a couple, and their three children. Bailey is the father and accompanying him is his wife. They have three children, two older children and a baby. John Wesley and June Star, being the older children have no respect for adults or really anything. The grandmother is a talkative elderly woman who also…

Kahlil Gibran once said “Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration”. E.B White’s short essay “Once More to the Lake” illustrates White’s own experience of a nostalgia trip in a lake of Maine where he comprehended the meaning of life. “Once More to the Lake” uses imagery to depict both author’s longing to his adolescent life and the internal struggle in facing his true self. The…

“Stop wasting your time!” my father shouted at me. “This is the most useless thing you could be doing!” “Your room is a mess again!” my mother nagged, looking at the floor. It was littered with dozens of paper airplanes, paper scraps glued to the floor, and bits of tape. “Stop making those paper airplanes!” I’ve been an engineer since I was in first grade. My favorite hobby was folding paper airplanes with a friend and having daily competitions to see who could make the plane that flew the…

Issue: Children’s lives are seriously disrupted when parents are incarcerated. Working in the child welfare field, I see this first hand. I see the effects of when one or both parents are incarcerated. Sometimes child removal is warranted. Other times, case management services are warranted to ensure that the family has services in place to prevent high risk situations. There are a high number of children whom are overlooked in the child welfare system when parents are incarcerated due to…

the frequency of switching the lights only increased as time went on; especially, in the classroom where he was not monitored or attended to due to a higher child to teacher ratio (1:5). Through observations it was noted that when Tom was not receiving more one-on-one attention he became increasingly active and reactive to his surroundings. He would begin to flick his finger in front of his eye and begin saying “want switchlik”. After a few times of saying with accompanied by the motion of…

the age of seventeen. Daniel explains that when he initially began using cocaine it was only recreational, so about two or three weeks, after he began to increase his intake. He would then snort cocaine and smoke it to the point he was awake at all times and was alert of everything around him. He later became dependent on the substance, in which he would have withdrawal symptoms whenever he did not use; like loss of appetite, restlessness, cold sweats, and nose bleeds. Knowingly, how his…

that I accredit the birth of my larger thoughts about mortality and our experiences and times on this earth and my hope that you, the reader will find it interesting. My father, brother and I had gone out to a small nearby lake sunken in the earth with earth walls surrounding the body of water, on a small motorized boat, as one does, with North’s old wrestling coach who had extended the invitation to my father and the rest of his familial entourage. We had been out on the water for a couple…