On Friendship

"Being a good friend, and having a good friend, can enrich your days and bring you life-long satisfaction. But friendship don't just happen. They have to be created and nurtured. Like any other skill, building friendship has to be practiced."

Sue Browder

206 Bones?

We count on our body every day! Bones are holding our skin together. Our muscles help us to move and our nerves will tell us what hurts. There are 206 bones in our body!

• 54 bones in our hands and wrists
• 52 bones in our feet and ankles
• 106 bones in hands and feet make the majority of the bones in our entire body

We have 606 muscles in our body, and we use 200 muscles to take a simple step! It doesn't matter whether it's a giant step or a baby step. Our muscles make up about one-half of the body weight. The essential part of our muscles is our heart!

"May Morning" by John Milton

Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger,
Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her
he flowery May, who from her green lap throws
The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Hail, bounteous May! that doth inspire
Mirth and youth and warm desire;
Woods and groves are of thy dressing,
Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.
Thus we salute thee with our early song,
And welcome thee, and wish thee long.

Poetry Society and More

Poetry Society seams as something from past century, perhaps Victorian era's culture. But in reality, there are seven years of Poetry Society outreach activities in a small size technical school still going strong. Every year we discovering new talents and every years there are new participants that are brave enough to share their private thought and let us in to read their rhymes and to listen to their dreams and hopes. The secret is that everybody can be a member of the Poetry Society. Paper and pen - all you need to explore and discover new possibilities in self-expressions. In reality, a historic document, a current moment, a photo, an audio recording or a video clip provides literary food for creativity. And in the end, it is a pleasure to collect, preserve and acknowledge the "contesters"' work because the Poetry Society is not dead.

Donate Your Old Race T-Shirts

The Bradenton Runners Club of Florida donates race T-shirts to Hope Family Services, a local organization that provides shelter for victims of domestic violence. Many individuals enter the shelter with nothing more than the cloths they are wearing.

Chicagoland Head-Huggers is one of the not-for-profit organization founded by a breast cancer survivor that accepts donations of unused race T-shirts and crafts them into scarves for cancer patients. The soft, 100 percent cotton shirts make a perfect coverings for the bald heads of patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Leaves and Men

As is the generation of leaves, so too of men:
At one time the wind shakes the leaves to the ground,
but the flourishing woods
Gives birth, and the reason of spring comes into existence
So it is of the generations of men, which alternately
come forth and pass away.

(Homer, Iliad)

Red Berries or Fruits and Literature

Why red strawberries were used in the handkerchief's decorative ornamentation? It has been suggested that Elizabethan painters subscribed to the idea that, since strawberries are red berries or fruits, they epitomize pleasure-seeking and sexual desire.
No wonder that that the white silk handkerchief in Shakespeare's "Othello, The Moore of Venice," was spotted with red strawberries that were hand stitched with treads that has been dyed with blood from "maiden hearts' - the virgin's blood!
The handkerchief, a small fashion accessory item, is the most dominated symbol that circulates throughout the play. A small object cares out such an enormous weight in the story of small incidents as a symbol of evidence and proofs of love and betrayal.