What does a new year mean to you, and before you go, I will be sharing what a new year means to me. New Years is a time to think and reflect and even to plan. I know it is only October now, but my New Year's plan is to hopefully have one of my dream jobs and believe it or not it is writing in a way but in transcription 'translating' handwritten documents into word documents. One more plan is to hopefully teach online for one of my old colleges in Pennsylvania courses in education or literature may be.
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Mark Graham
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Faith
So, what is faith? To me this is a word that means 'peace, safety, and security'. I know that the Lord is with me even though he seems to be far away at times, but he gives me strength to walk alone along the path that he has chosen for me. There are times that I need help in making decisions on how to tell people how I feel when you find out that names do hurt even after many years. For me when someone said that I was lazy a few years ago it still hurts today the same.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH12 days ago in Critique
Venezuela
By Leavie “Soul on Fire” Scott Her name was Nava, a 23‑year‑old shopkeeper’s daughter from Tehran, though she didn’t feel young anymore. Not after the week she had survived. Not after watching the value of Iran’s currency collapse so fast that shop windows changed prices twice a day. Not after seeing her father stand in his empty store and whisper, “I cannot afford to open tomorrow.”
By Organic Products a day ago in Critique
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I sincerely hope your new year's dreams come to fruition, Mark. I have always wanted to write, even since I was a child and penned fairy tales, so for me, much of my dream is coming to the surface after retirement. My one regret is that I didn't pursue the dream when I was much younger.