Grab a Helmet: You're About to Have Your Life Changed

As a society, we are obsessed with questions. But the're always the wrong questions., aren't they? What do you want to do with your life, where are you going to college, how much do you make...all of tese questions are superficial and shallow when you consider them, meant only to give the illusion of knowing a person. The following twenty questions are meant for YOU and only you. I'm not posting your answers, just mine, so free yourself from the constraints of society and answer them for your sake. Believe me, you'll thank me for asking these later.
So here they are. My questions and my answers.
1. What do you want to change about your life? My inability to focus.
2. What scares you the most? Loneliness
3. What sort of a person are you, really? The kind that does this on a literary blog.
4. Are you happy with your life? Mostly.
5. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Whatever the answer, its not as interesting as what you'll find out as you look for the answer.
6. What do you regret the most? Not getting to know my Uncle Mike better before he died.
7. How much do you care  what others think of you? More than is good for me.
8. When you see a dead animal on the side of the road, what's your first thought? What is that?
9. Do you really think what you're learning now is useful? No, except for Spanish.
10. How easily do you trust others; like actually trust? To be honest, not very easily.
11. How do you feel when you see violence? Like I wish that I could turn back time.
12.  What are your three favorite songs? Olly Murs Troublemaker, Nause Hungry Hearts, Fallout Boy Light em Up
13. Do you believe in God? Yes.
14. Why? It feels right.
15. Who do you care about the most? My family.
16. Do you belive in evil. Oh yeah
17. Why? Personal experience.
18. Are you happy with yoursellf? Yes
19. What do you dream about? I dont dream.
20.Are these questions uncomfortable for you? A little

History Meets Fiction

"The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane"

 

By now, you have almost certainly become bored of the various wizard-and-witch fiction books that have tried, in vain, to fill the void left by the absence of the Harry Potter series. So it is with great pleasure and joy that I present to you "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane," by Katherine Howe. The book alternates between the Dane family of Salem, Massachusetts, and Connie Goodwin, a Harvard graduate student in 1991. Connie has just been tasked by her eccentric, free-spirited mother Grace to get her grandmother's old house ready for sale, but wile there, Connie begins to have startling visions. These visions lead her to the discovery of a single, strange name: Deliverance Dane. But what at first seems like a gold mine of historical information for her graduate thesis soon turns into something else entirely, forcing Connie to accept her-self for what she is...a witch. And no sooner does she learn this when she is thrust into a deadly duel with a sorcerer, where her failure will cost her far more than her life.

Meanwhile, back in Salem of 1692, Mercy Dane is just beginning to discover her own powers, when her mother, the cunning-woman (witch) Deliverance, is called to cure a girl who has been afflicted by a more-than mortal sickness. As the sickness spreads, Deliverance is accused of witchcraft, and Mercy must use her new powers if she is to save her mother's legacy.

 

This book is extremely entreating, and touches onto the very real traditions of British Witchcraft. It also utilizes its different time setting to its full humorous advantage Such as making the hilarious comment "One of my summer school kids had a cell phone that her kept on his desk! Can you imagine if every teenager had one of those?''

I fully recommend this book completely to anyone who wants a s to read a truly great book

First Experience with Literature

My first expeience with literature was when I was seven. Tired of the various picture and easy to read books, I wanted something new. So my dad started reading me one of W.B. Yeats' poems, "The Song of the Wandering Aengus". He read it to me every night, and to this day, I can recite it perfectly. This poem, this beautiful, exotic poem, opened a whole new door for me. It showed me that literature was more than peter rabbit and frog and toad. It was illuminating, and wonderful, and kindeled my love of poetry, a passion that remains strong even today.
THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS

by: W.B. Yeats

WENT out to the hazel wood,

Because a fire was in my head,

And cut and peeled a hazel wand,

And hooked a berry to a thread;

And when white moths were on the wing,

And moth-like stars were flickering out,

I dropped the berry in a stream

And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the floor

I went to blow the fire a-flame,

But something rustled on the floor,

And some one called me by my name:

It had become a glimmering girl

With apple blossom in her hair

Who called me by my name and ran

And faded through the brightening air.

Though I am old with wandering

Through hollow lands and hilly lands,

I will find out where she has gone,

And kiss her lips and take her hands;

And walk among long dappled grass,

And pluck till time and times are done

The silver apples of the moon,

The golden apples of the sun.