So today in my Government and Politics Class I met and heard George Taliaferro Speek. He is a man with quite a story. George Taliaferro Graduated from IU in 1949. He was the First Black Man Drafted by the NFL. It was so neat to hear him, and to talk with him. So often I think about the stories of life that are going on around me, wondering what their about, and who the main parts are of the story. Something that struck me, and I have been struck with this thought more than once. That through the difficulties of life he said that he was the most shaped, the most changed, that in those difficulties he became a stronger person. It reminded me that God uses the hard things of life to make me what he wants me to be.
...She will most likely have a favoret tree she climbed when she was a girl. She didn't just climb it she sat in it and dreamed in it. She also probabley sprang ankles and wrists jumping out of it at times. Maybe she dreamed of building or built, (with her dads help) a tree house or tree fort in the tree. One of her favoret movies is the Sandlot, and she wanted to be one of those boys, and was really frustrated because she didn't seem to have the same kind of fun and adventures they did, or maybe she did. If she did she sure got into a bunch of trouble. She will have stories about playing in the dirt, chasing down lizerds catching crodads in the crick, and having mice for pets, and being the fasest girl on the neighborhood block. This Tom boy is a dreamer, always wondering and questioning life and pausing to hear the noise or silents inside. For the most part these thoughts and dreams never are spoken out loud though they are bursting at her seams to be heard.
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