http://www.cnj222.net abstractions and my captions on life Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:56:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm not sure where the younger generation is headed, but it doesn't look good.  Legislators keep trying to increase the curriculum and make everything look good on paper, but what it's actually doing is forcing kids to give up.  No child left behind is plowing students over by trying to ... http://www.cnj222.net/2010/03/10/interest-in-the-news/ Reading the local news was pretty interesting today.  I read that near by the city counsel voted to impose a daytime curfew for children of school age.  Their new law states that children between the ages of 6 and 16 should not be found in the community between the times ... http://www.cnj222.net/2010/03/09/comments-on-the-news/ Strength crumbling before your eyes Watching it dissipate and run through your fingers Trying to pull it up, not finding it within Summons are failing no matter how hard you try Can't keep going, not strong enough to walk through Not strong enough to stop the flood gate holding back the emotions Trying to hang on, ... http://www.cnj222.net/2010/03/07/fading-strength/ I don't understand the way some people think or logic their way through life....I was reading the news earlier today and was simply baffled by some of the comments underneath the articles from other readers similar to myself.  There was one article about a woman being shot to death in ... http://www.cnj222.net/2010/03/04/people-trying-to-think/ I saw a commercial today that advertised a show that claimed to display the secrets to a  happy marriage.  I'm not sure that there could be a formula to such a thing...in fact it seems rather ridiculous that anybody would waste their time doing a study on such things.  I'm ... http://www.cnj222.net/2010/03/02/happy-secrets/ Wobbly legs that crisscross across the water Slippery water turned to sleek and slick ice. Shaking arms out for supported footing Placing one foot in front of the other Feeling as if you're on a tightrope You walk through life Tip Toeing around Scissoring legs try to straighten themselves Resisting the urge to give up and crawl Continuing to ... http://www.cnj222.net/2010/03/01/balanced/ It is strange how the smallest thing can make a wall collapse.  I think that people are like that too.  When emotions cause hairline fractures in our soul, confidence, mind, and heart, it only takes the smallest amount of force to break a person. It could be something so mall that ... http://www.cnj222.net/2010/02/28/collapse/ I think it's crazy that sometimes you can feel more productive in one day than you have felt all week....Sometimes it feels like you have gotten more done in a few short hours compared to the work of a week....Sometimes you can work as hard as you can and yet ... http://www.cnj222.net/2010/02/27/productivity/ How can you keep pushing forward when you don't have a known direction?  If you don't know what road you're traveling down, it's kind of hard to see over the hills in front of you.  Left or right?  North or South?  The various paths in life that pop up, almost ... http://www.cnj222.net/2010/02/25/direction/ Do you ever find yourself with two personalities...not in the crazy way, but just the way you act and react to different groups of people compared to when you're on your own or with a separate group of people that you know better and are more comfortable with?  I've noticed ... http://www.cnj222.net/2010/02/24/personality/