"Family"

Family is God's greatest treasure to us

They help you to grow and share your jewels with the world

True diamonds in the roung

Always shining and glistening when times are tough

Models of support, strength and love

They are the superglue to life's intricate puzzle

My heart and soul

They are the picture that can uplift me when times are tough.

"If I Were in Charge of the World..."

If I were in charge of the world...

Icecream and candy would be nutritional,

Watching T.V would be a workout, and

Everyone would have a soundtrack to their life.

If I were in charge of the world...

Everyone would know Mizzou was the best school and that Kansas should never be acknowledged,

Every Saturday would be football Saturday,

If you went to class, you would recieve a 4.0 GPA.

If I were in charge of the world...

No one would know pain and love would fill every street, jungle, ocean and desert,

People would know peace and hope, and

There would really be a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow!

If I were in charge of the world...

There would be no racism or hate crimes,

There would be unity amoung families, communities, and nations, and

The color of a person's skin would only decide the strength of SPF that was needed!

If I were in charge of the world...

It would be an awesome place...but unfortunately I am not incharge of the world!

But one day I will be in charge of a classroom!

This classroom will love music, Saturdays, Mizzou, and most importantly each other!

"Bound Hope"

God, in the dark of failure,

You show some promise,

The True Savior,

The Pearls,

Your life, you rowork, your hopes and thoughts and songs and breath, we have decided to publish your book.

Stories sad and stories happy and stories of laughter and tears and places soft and hard, stories of great men and beautiful women and souls and devils and gods, stories of dreams and found joys and aches and torture and great rolling hills and towering storms.

She handed me a book and I consider every good thing that has happened to me since then to be a result of that one woman taking the time to hand one troubled kid who didn't particularly read a book.

But the sact of reading certainly saved my life.