Really late edit...

So it's vacation but I realized I forgot a big event for my soundtrack. So...
GETTING HIT BY A CAR! Okay, so it wasn't like I wasn't out of a car... I was in a car too but it still counts. I got into a car accident in November. Thanksgiving, to be exact. I've been through the details without everyone (most recently Tucker on Christmas aka yesterday...) but what pretty much happened was my dad was driving, my grandma was in the passenger seat, my brother was asleep on my left, I was in the middle, and my mom was on my right. We were going to go see Lars and the Real Girl (I NEVER GOT TO SEE IT!) and we were right on this intersection when the light turned yellow. I don't remember any background noise or anything. I didn't even see the car hit because it hit from the left and that's where my brother was sleeping. I only saw it when it hit the front of the car. My mom screamed so then I screamed. We got jerked to the right and we hit the curb. I screamed again. So then we hit a transfomer box and then I screamed. But my mom was already telling me it was over. It seemed like as soon as we stopped there was the guy outside of the car. The young, black guy with the ponytail I think I owe my life too. There was a funny gas smell in the car and he was knocking on the window, making sure everyone was okay and trying to get the doors open. The stupid Vue had automatic locks and we forgot so me and my mom started to freak out. We unlocked the doors and started to get out. Turns out, my brother couldn't open his door because we landed in a ditch of livewires and he was ontop of them. The guy told him and we got out and went across the street. Then, of course, we went to the hosptial and blahblahblah. This is hard but... Song choice: "So, In This Hour..." by The Rocket Summer. Nobody has any idea how much this song calms me down. At the end, there's this part where there's no singing, it's just his piano and the guitars and stuff. I listened to it on the way home from the hospital (in the car... no, not the same car. The Vue got totaled. We went home in the van) and despite the fact that I was crying, SITH made me calm down a lot more than I was before I listened to it. Everyone has a song that calms them down. This is one that makes me feel okay again. Always has, always will.

Good day scholars!

Today you are going to write about the idea within this quote and what are your life goals? What will your verse be? You may even discuss a poem you really enjoy and how it helps bring more meaning to your life!You may even write as a poem or prose! This is SOOOO exciting.

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, ‘O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?’ Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”

—John Keating (Robin Williams)
in Dead Poet’s Society, 1989



Enjoy life!
Mrs. Gaboury

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