I Trust

I Trust

I trust the dirt, I trust the rain
I trust the cars, I trust the train
I trust the secrets, I trust the truth
I trust the old, I trust the youth
I trust my Life, I trust My Death
...I trust My right, I trust my left
I trust the Ground, I trust the skies
I trust the Truth But not the lies
I trust the fairies, I trust the elf
I trust you all… just not myself

Conan Edogawa

 

I love this. Gwyn

Ray Bradbury Quote Extra Credit by Kacey M.

"we have our arts so we don't die of truth"

-Ray Bradbury

To me this is really true and so honest and real because without arts and creativity this world would be a lifeless voidof hate and brutally honest people. Creativity to many is an outlet if it's writing or listening to music thi. This world was built up by arts and the love of the individuality of each of them and Ray Bradbury I think gets it and that's why he partially wrote F451 because he wanted to show society thsat creating technology is okay but don't let it interfere with our creative flow and the importance of actually sitting down and working on a poem or painting a picture and to never forget that , that is actually possible and the importance of it.

-Kacey M. Pd. 6 12.7.12

Better Gets Worse By Aki M.

"Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures."
                                                                                                               Ray Bradbury
         This quote to me means that when technology gets better people get worse. Ten years ago computers were big screens and you could not leave the room with that big blocky machine. Now in this day and age you can use you phone and computer anywhere and do anything without anybody seeing it. Sadly this cycle will go on forever like this quote said.
           

Thanks

Thanks for the great blog entries!  Such wise comments and perspectives, with a random nugget of this and that thrown in for good measure.  Keep reading and commenting!

p.s. if you're looking for an awesome blog full of reading suggestions from a gal with excellent literary taste (she's currently a sophomore at Murray High School), check out Read My Print!  I highly recommend it. 

Meaning Behind the Words by Candice Olson

On legacy, through a character in Fahrenheit 451:

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there."

 

This quote is inspiring to me because behind it there is a lot of meaning and logic to it. I also beleive that this quote has double meaning behind it when the quote says "Or a garden planted. Something your hand touch some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die." I think that also means the creation of life. When you die and your child is left behind, some people can look at that child and see you or when the child see's it's reflection it can see you. That child is the tree or that flower that you planted in the soil of the earth.
-Candice Olson

Connections by Josh James

For the students that have read the book theif and are now reading Fahrenheit 451. You may have noticed some similarity in the two books, for one the value of books them selfs, weather it be good or bad. The burning of books, and how books are taken and saved from the deadly flames; Even when it is illegal because of the topic doesn't further someones means. Instead they burn them and destroy them.

The Blizzard doesn't last forever...it just seems so.

"[S]tarting when I was fifteen I began to send short stories to magazines like Esquire, and they, very promptly, sent them back two days before they got them! I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn’t realize what a strong person I was; I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn. Then, during the late forties, I actually began to sell short stories and accomplished some sort of deliverance from snowstorms in my fourth decade. But even today, my latest books of short stories contain at least seven stories that were rejected by every magazine in the United States and also in Sweden! So … take heart from this. The blizzard doesn’t last forever; it just seems so."

-Ray Bradbury

This quote speaks to me like a microphone in the ear. Feelings have recently come towards me days before I had started reading Fahrenheit 451. They were questions almost exactly like the ones Clarrisse asks Guy Montag. As I began reading and noticing how much of a coincidence it was I just laughed. I laughed and laughed and laughed until I didn't know what to do with myself anymore. These feelings that flooded me before had brought me down and pulled me back out.

This quotes sums up everything I need to take to heart right now, I may have been in the dark with not one hand reaching out towards me, but I'm not the only one in there. Sooner or later I realized others in the same position had found me and I, them. This quote just gave me so much inspiration for the exact spot I am climbing out of. I thank you Mr. Bradbury.



-Uyen