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This was a short essay written in my First-Year Seminar, "USA: The Natural Experiment." It's basically "how did we screw up the environment and where do we go from here?" We study the environment from historical, economic, political, conservational, (et cetera) perspective. In the first week of class, we took a bike ride around town and came upon a tiny, abandoned kitten. Our professor stopped the entire class so that a friend and I could rescue said kitten and rerouted our course

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George, God bless you, you were such a saint.. in you I found a soul so kindred, your sincerity.. you were one in ten million. You were so close to God, and you shone light into the world your whole life. Thank you for your message of divine love. You are missed, and loved.

So I see, you cannot love
those you see weaker than you.
Do you think you are better
or stronger than they are?
you hurt your heart.
Frail you pine away,
having said No, one last time
to the good in your soul.
You cannot love your sister,
brother, or know the infinite within them.
How can it be that you cannot know?

I have been asked multiple times recently why it is that I don't post more feedback on personal poems and stories. My answer is that there are days when I do, and there are days when I feel my mood may be too black or sarcastic to objectively give my opinion.

My thinking is that all writing should be encouraged because, even if it's terrible, it's practice for more writing. If I'm going to offer criticism, I want it to be supportive. I hope no one feels like I'm ignoring their work. ...

school is over and now I just need to finish an essay and take two exams. the essay I am working on is about an Icelandic novel, a great book. I am having a trouble with it though I seem to be stuck and can't figure out what to do next. I am working this weekend and my boy is with his dad so I am gonna try and use the afternoons and evenings to finish so I can focus on my exams next week. need to find a good angle to get my essay more focused. my last essay was about Macbeth so lit-net was a big ...