Walls We Climb

The biggest key to success for me is holding up your walls until they are about to crumble, then passing the ball to the people you trust the most. If you are unsure they can handle all your woes, pass the ball to the creator I’m sure “thee or they” won’t fail, then the mother and the father ,or simply “To whom it may concern,”and pray by night, by day, by meal, or whenever you feel the need to. Ask forgiveness for your rights and wrongs, for knowing what you know not, for not knowing what you do not know, and for any misunderstandings in between.

Who knows for sure if it even matters exactly how you pray (asking forgiveness and thanks) or if it even matters at all so I just believe. Then, I include all the good names and rename the bad ones to something good and don’t curse on those beautiful names. I ask for forgiveness, for blessings to all, and that the next day, I will be able to live up to all the amazing prophets, elders, story-tellers, heroes, parents, brothers and sisters, mentors and just anyone in my life who inspired me (which is literally every person I have ever met) to achieve in my lifetime all that I am meant to be, to be all that I can be.

Apart from your blessings and nightmares, this is life. Because when you know that the biggest key to success is realizing when you are too close to success and you haven’t realized through your own eyes, but through the love of your bestest of friends and family, as well as your ex-wife, and even your kids, that it is time to take off my coat. Then, you realize it is time to wake up and swear to yourself that no matter how hard it is in your now wrecked body, you will do everything in your soul to build your best friends their dreamland. Work any job, wear yourself thin, just not scrape too low, just live your best life. Though, I understand what it means to be down in the dirt and crawl in the mud, for I served in the infantry.

After medically retiring as a Staff Sergeant from one of my dream jobs, (another of which was a garbage man) other than becoming a Poet or Musician one day, of Jumping out of Airplanes and one day mastering one of the hardest and most humbling occupations in the world imo(for there are many i.e., teacher, governor, president, janitor, any really if you try exceptionally hard), for me it was a Commander, US Warrant Officer, or Command Sergeant Major. I wanted to try and connect the entire world through culture, linguistics and STEM after retirement. I realized then, that the golden rule for me was to realize that if you were great at your job, you had suffered many hardships and were blessed with all the success a person could hope to achieve (a big family, education, and experience) in a short spree, heck, I have four degrees. It was time to take a break, though life doesn’t let us just take a break.

In no particular order, I dropped out of college for my Associates Degree (one class shy) and Bachelors in Networking and Programming, I dropped out of my Masters Degree in Arabic and Linguistics (twice) a little over half way through. I walked away from a few jobs that I really enjoyed. I then realized it was time to hang up the hat, pick up a quill or keyboard, a glass of tea or honey-maybe wine, and a smile, because life is about peace not war.

Next, I laid back n’ relaxed, stopped taking charge of my life, entrusted others and respected their wishes and knew the next step in life was becoming a proverbial “White Belt” in as many given tasks as a body could last before it couldn’t take anymore, had to tear down my own walls, rebuild from the past. I had to learn how to properly ask my friend to take care of me, instead of stumbling pride first into every obstacle along the way. Which was my way of respectfully showing my best friend, exactly how much I would do on my own to take care of them. In that moment, I looked over and said, “Do you got me now?”

Still in no particular order, we went through government channels in order to right my own life’s story. I did all the appointments I could make. I filed the paperwork together with my mate. Let them, let me make mistakes and drive me forward this time. We trusted each other, rebuilt with each other, and made sure neither of us ever let the other fail.

These days, I’m rebuilding my life, working on my garden when I feel spry, living in love and harmony, and getting chill with it. Hoping that the world can regrow the way that I am trying to. For I had a dream that by understanding war, culture, language, and love, I could help others see my belief. That we were all meant to coexist respectfully, to accept each other's beliefs, culture, and tongue to work together in order to achieve a peaceful future through understanding we are all the same, we just understand life differently.

-Corey Wade Harland-

-To my Heroes, Comrades, Friends, My Parents, Family, Mentors and Peers-

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If I had finished my M.A. this is how it would have started… I think maybe a little something like this, but my disabilities caught up with me before I could finish and the stress got to me. Maybe one day I will correct it and put it in Arabic:

I wanted to start out with stating, this is how my thesis would begin:

It is only as hard as it is perceived to be.

Dialect, especially in regards to foreign languages and for the purposes of my this paper Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) will attempt to be explained through simplest terms.

Introducing pragmatics through dialect and the formulation of a vernacular pseudo-MSA and English, which will allow the student to explore Arabic and English at a colloquial level, a student will have the ability to apply future language material across all languages to the learned pragmatics.

If you want to be understood in the Arabic language, how would you understand a child, a teenager, a young adult or a professional in their native language?

Teach the lesson in three building pieces, through an object, time, and action within the same subject. Continuously and repetitively for each new subject. Moving forward with a new Subject after three lessons in the same category. This is my way, but hey there are many different ways to teach.

What is the lesson being taught, teaching how to make a story…

When I give ideas I like to teach through metaphors, similes, and philosophies. I like to imagine real life through art. Like sometimes I imagine a real life traumatic event through an episode of Pokémon or digimon, or a tragic anime, why?, because it makes light of the hurt. I have been through a lot.

“If you want to teach something that another may perceive to be immoral, then do it in a way that does not offend.”

Give enough pieces to allow for exploration, building, and teach the importance of gender in language as it is not the same as someone’s personal identity.

The best way to learn Arabic is through Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and Root Linguistics: gaining an understanding of what makes dialect, dialect and a language, language.

MSA may have been developed to bridge the dialects between the many dialects of Arabic, but I also believe it can be used to help non-native speakers of Arabic and those who do not share the same dialect “to be able” to speak using the “to be family of verbs” and must be treated that way.

Listen-observe-feel-respect

Or I believe i read this when I was little and added my own flavor:

Live-Laugh-Love by Ann Landers which was great but decided there was one more thing missing for a life of constant growing and never feeling like you are dying:

Live-Laugh-Learn-Love

Because even learning one new thing everyday, preferably 3, will keep a love, a life, a friendship, or maybe even make you new friend eveyday. Then one day ine could wake up to world where everyone is friends and a world of peace everlasting.

To continue on, Root linguistics is not focusing on all aspects, or by not identifying the common patterns derived in a languages ability to be steered in the direction that it is implied.

Improperly communicating your intent may lead to incorrect interpretation or translation of the given dialogue without being able to acknowledge the non-verbal linguistic cues.

A good way to correct this is to teach how to effectively communicate and explain oneself through emotion and this could be done through: books, music, movies, cartoons, maybe even your career or anything you studied. Just make sure to expound upon. (for me a bit of everything)

For example,

Because “Name Here” did not (realize, etc..) that they had hurt the others feelings, a fight was all but imminent…..

Because “Name Here”, was (etc….)

Build the conversation….

“ The grumbly bear hurt the koala bears feelings.”

Then correct it…

“Grumbly Bear hurt the Koala Bears feeling, but later regretted it.”

Then correct it…

Think to yourself how would I fix this conversation and teach the reflexive:

“I am sorry,”the grumbly bear said to the Koala asking forgiveness.

The Koala Bear, then apologized, because neither had known how bad, that the other had been feeling on the inside. For it may not have shown on either of their face’s or tone’s.

(Which is another great topic to expound upon later, oh and الصوتيات Phonics which is sort of a science, and some others as well, study through Islam in that faith and culture.)

“The Koala Bear, felt sorry because it was so mad about the Grizzly Bear, who was even more upset.”

This is a good way to summarize the scenario and now this could be used as an example for students to try and build the same style of conversation, however correcting it into a happy resolution.

EXAMPLE:

“The Grumbly Bear whom upset the Koala, apologized and left feeling upset with themself. The next day, the Koala bear then approached the grumbly bear, who was not in the mood. This upset the Koala, and further affected the grumbly bears mood. Later on, grumbly approached Koala, let koala know that they were both just out of tune. the Koala’s eyes lit alight that grumbly bear was aware of what was happening. They then apologized promptly to one another in no particular order, now Cutie Bear and Happy bear can dance through the forest together again once more, eating honey and being bestest friends. Happily Ever After…..

Building a conversation requires interaction between people in order to developed one’s language. It also requires a teacher to be able to effectively communicate with their students.

Use Art/Theater/Films/Cartoons, whatever interests your heart, and help a student change it from one language to the other until a student is capable of doing it on their own. IE English poetry, music, movies etc… into MSA poetry, music, movies, etc.. or whatever dialect exists… Do all of it, heck try 2 or 3 languages.