peaceandlove's blog

I was a kid once. I would play on the playground and ride my boke, and sometimes I would fall down. I would run home to my parents who knew exactly how to fix me up and make me feel better. I would play softball and have slumber parties. I did my homework, and sometimes I would make bad grades, and i would get in trouble. My parents knew exactly how to punish me.  Read More »

Ok, so I am doing a huge project/paper on this book I read -- You Just Don't Understand - Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen. The book basically describes the differences in women and men's conversational style -- genderlects.

Women's Style:

Communication is a way to cultivate, nurture and maintain relationships  Read More »

Hello!  Read More »

Greed.
A selfish, excessive desire.
It has become so mainstream,
So common in our present day.
Its connotation has become more and more reputable.
Something not to be ashamed of,
Although I believe it’s something to be looked down upon.

Some say it is controllable,
But I beg to differ.
There is something inside you
That triggers that crave.

A volcano of envy,  Read More »

New World

What have we done,
To achieve a world like this?
We’re disconnected to life,
And connected to this strive for bigger and better.
We have perverted this idea of love into a want for more.
For clothes, bigger cars, and more objects.
This is not what life is about, my friend.

This world is slowly going,
Towards something I am scared of.
It can be prevented,  Read More »

Maggie.
To everyone, she is a little, half-Egyptian, beautiful girl.
To me, she is my cousin, but most of all she is my hero.
Why, people might ask. Why Maggie?
Maggie is my hero because she is the most mature teenager you will meet.
Not the teenager our society has come to know: blurred and molded by a cloud of smoke and a beer bottle in one hand.  Read More »

A couple of random thoughts that I have been thinking about lately…

I find it weird to think that we’re moving, not the sky. When I look up, it looks like the clouds are moving.  Read More »