Literary Society

Hey everyone, check out inklingsliterarysociety.blogspot.com for our latest issue of the Lamp Post Newspaper! You can find my entries under Mr. Midshipman Hornblower. Also, for a quick update and a picture, last Sunday I went to an airsoft war at a ranch for a friend's birthday party. A quick pic: (I'm the one with the rifle, M4 Tactical Viper, really nice gun.)

Also, triple-feature style, a poem I wrote recently...  

True Friendship

Life will crash down all around you,

But when it does you’ll know I’m near,

When it drives you to your knees,

I will wipe away your tears.

When you feel like you are helpless,

And the pain’s too much to bear,

I’ll be there to hold your hand

And show you that I care.

For I know what true friendship is,

I experienced it long ago,

When I had a friend as strong as steel,

Who with a word my heart had sealed,

But that was long ago.

No argument did separate us,

Just the icy hand of death,

And though I cried when my friend had gone,

I knew that it was best.

We’d spent many happy days,

And we’d traveled far and wide,

We were always right together,

Standing strong, side by side,

We rarely had a quarrel,

But when we did we soon forgave,

For our love each-other toward

Was stronger than the grave.

Our position was often awkward,

And our friends would point and stare,

But we defined true friendship,

So we didn’t really care.

We traveled through this world of strife,

Together hand-in-hand

We laughed at all life’s dangers,

For we knew of a greater land.

Far beyond the Foaming Rocks,

And towering over this tiny land,

There’s a world of beauty and majesty,

Designed by a skillful Hand.

My friend has already reached it,

My friend is waiting there,

And I am hurrying through this world,

The delay is hard to bear.

A Nature Walk

Teen Court

A picture taken after Teen Court. I am to the right, my sister (senior attorney) is to the left and my other sister, (judge for Master Jury) is in the middle. You might have noticed it in my sidebar, but my sisters and I are part of a local Teen Court Program. October kicked off my freshman year as an attorney for Teen Court and I am definitely enjoying it. We go with about four other friends from our church along with the kids from the local highschool and I must say I look forward to it all month, every month. Our Teen Court is hoping to enter the National Teen Court Competition this year, but unfortunately my sister (on the left side) and I will not be able to enter this year because we will be out-of-state. However, I'm hoping that perhaps next year we will be able to. Click 'cool' if you're part of a Teen Court program!

Spring

Waiting for Spring to come around the corner again! These are pics from last year...

The Perot Museum

On Monday, my family and I took a trip to the Perot Museum of Natural History and Science in Dallas for my sister's birthday. The Museum opened for the first around the first week of December. It has three floors of exhibits and it houses many archaeological finds from right here in Texas as well as the third largest gold nugget in the world, weighing over 50 pounds.  It also houses a Mososaur identical to the one someone found not far from our house. We were also excited to discover that the "shark" teeth we thought we had found in a local river were actually Mososaur teeth. (We have found shark's teeth too..)  Here are a few pics taken throughout the day...