Chantilly's D-V-8

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     I use to have a blog when yahoo had the 360 blog and had many friends there.  So I think I will keep this blog.  I was given this from my English teacher this year otherwise I would never had started another.  Life has been a frenzy since school.  Haven't been on the computer until today.  Can't get my grades, or summary of account or anything on Lee College page right now not even about summer.  I know they are making a change but I don't know what to do about it.  This is so true.  I am taking care of somebody else's dog, put quite a bit of money into a black Labrador who loves me but his family lives on the corner but they won't help him but he still loves them.  In loving memory of Sarah Catherine Glover 1935-2013  In loving memory of Russell who held on for Pat 17 years because he was her link to her husband who had passed away years ago.  He was a loved dog by everybody that knew him and was buri...

       I have lost someone very dear to me.  It was extreme because this has never happened to me before and I don't do death well at all.  I have been taking care of my kinfolks for the last five years like 24/7 but they gave me the opportunity to go back to college and bought me a computer and set me on the right track of life.  I call her mama and her husband Bobby.  She has been more of a mama to me in the last five years than anybody.  We had our coffee together every morning and she would tell me before I left for school see you later alligator and I would say after while crocodile.        She supposedly had Alsheimer's disease and Bobby has Parkinson's disease.  I always knew she was in decline after she broke her hip she never walked again but we always laughed everyday and talked for at least two hours before I went to school.  I would get up at 4 to 5 a.m. just to have thi...

       I named by blog page Chantilly's D-V-8 so I could do just that-deviate,  I used the deviation on my early childhood memory as I will on my adult one.  This one is about a meaningful experience from adulthood, so I will deviate from all the bad things that happened between the years and focus on the shining star.  You can imagine what you want, I really don't care, but I don't think you could imagine it all.  In case, my other son should come across this page, I want him to know he was my first beautiful experience in life and he knows why nothing will be written about about him.  I just wanted to let him know how special he is to me, too.        The birth of my younger son, Brian was the meaningful experience that brought me to where I am today.  There was nobody there after he was born as his dad left during that time, as soon as he was born and said he would be back later.  There was...

The Blog for My Research Paper on City Dark              My subject for my paper is about the night sky, how it use to be and how it is now.  The purpose of my writing will not only tell you about the difference, but what is causing the difference through facts, the senses and the way people live today.  I intend to prove without a doubt, that humans will destroy what God has given them and some will not even realize it until it is too later.  We have already lost much of what we should see of the sky because of light pollution, but we have also lost our souls to technology.  I am not speaking for the technology that helps us see the sky, but all the technology that has people running at too fast a pace to even think about the universe or the beauty it beholds.       I will be addressing this topic by following the rules an facts to present my argument with reason from the sources I will pro...

Blog for the City Dark                I am more impressed with the notion that people are in their own little universe.  I like rejecting the notion that humans are the center of the universe but I also like the fear of the dark.  I like thinking about what humans get out of darkness and what is lost along with the night sky.        The created passage I either agreed with or wanted to know about involves Tyson, Ann Druyan, Roger Ekrich and Ian Cheney.                  I will start with Neil de Grasse Tyson, an astrophysicist at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, as he summarized the humanistic values of the night sky: "You could live your life at home never looking up...[but] I...submit to you that you'll be missing a point of view, a cosmic perspective, because...you'll start thinking of your own environm...

      I think I want to explore more about what is out there and the beauty. "Seeing the universe around us tell us about our own part of the universe, and to close that door....would change the character of humankind entirely" (Kuhn qtd. in City Dark).  That one sentence speaks volumes in itself.  People need to slow down in this world, they are running way to fast. You can find that in the stories of your Elders if you will take the time to listen to their stories. If you are fortunate enough to have a grandparent, or great-grandparent alive, sit back and listen to their stories.  They have plenty to tell.  My grandpa was Cherokee, he farmed by the moon, his crop depended on the weather, and nature was very important to him.  Some of you are so young now, that your parents may be my age, and if they don't pass the ways of nature down to you, you will miss so much.     If the door is closed, I don't know what would happ...

      My grandpa was Cherokee and he would have been the one who started the night watch for me.  He use to grow acres and acres of planting the freshest vegetables and the biggest watermelons.  He did everything by watching the moon, the night sky, and how the stars were showing, what the next day would bring.  From this generation, my dad has his own theory and beliefs about the night sky.  This is a generational thing for my family.  I have one son, Chris, who lives out in the country with my parents that has a huge, expensive telescope.  I have another son, Brian who has always stayed with me and he had a glow in the dark constellation book when he was very young, and a cheap telescope.      When I was young, I can remember sitting outside with grandpa late in the evening, watching the sky out in the country.  The wolves would howl on a full moon, and there were plenty of owls back then t...