Saying Good-Bye

Today, I found out that sometime in March our dearly beloved speech therapist will be moving about 5 hours away. I’m am very sad to see her leave us. She has been such a blessing to my brother, my sister and my family. She has given me inspiration, for a profession I could not have even imagine liking a year ago.
Last year, I was wanting to become an interior designer. Painting a dull lifeless room, matching décor pillows with curtains and putting in one color to tie everything together to make a room, is something amazing and it is something I really enjoy and I still like doing for fun. But changing a bare space into a something spectacular, does not even come close to the feeling I get when I see a child beam with excitement becasue 2 months ago he barely knew any sounds and is now putting 2 words together. I know it may seem trivial to you that so little progress could delight a person so much,  but when you see a kid who can barely say a word began to talk to you, it’s…… it’s a feeling like no other.
I am so thankful God put Lauren into my life. She has taught me so much and has helped me learn more about myself. When Lauren started working at our home, I never thought I would end up shadowing her. I thought she was just another person to help my little sister, just another person in our home once or twice a week. Oh! How I was wrong. God knew that this one person would teach me and help me even before I became interested in any kind of therapy. Lauren has opened my eyes to how fun and rewarding this job can be. I’m am truly thankful for her. I hope her move is an easy one and she gets settled into her new house quickly.

Thank You Lauren for everything.
~Sierra.

"Love and Death" Alfred Tennyson

In Alfred Tennyson poem "Love and Death" I think he is trying expressing the relationship between Love and Death. I like how Tennyson referrers to Death and Love as a object. I do not see Love and Death as people but more as elements of our imagination. He makes them come alive in our minds. Tennyson said that death is the shadow of all life. At some point we will all deal with death in some form. Whether it is someone close to us dieing or facing death ourselves. Tennyson also refers to death as being a tree that is growing in the sun and how the tree shadows all that is beneath it. In the middle of the poem Death starts trying to chase away Love. He tells him to leave that Love does not belong there. Love begins to weep before he flies away. He explains to Death “The shadow passeth when the tree shall fall, But I shall reign forever over all” I think Tennyson is trying to get the reader to see how the pain of death will eventually go away. But the love for the person who died, or love in general will last forever.
　
“What time the mighty moon was gathering light,
Love paced the thymy plots of Paradise, And all about him roll'd his lustrous eyes;
When, turning round a cassia, full in view
Death, walking all alone beneath a yew, And talking to himself, first met his sight:
"You must be gone," said Death, "these walks are mine".
Love wept and spread his sheeny vans for flight;
Yet ere he parted said, "This hour is thine; Thou art the shadow of life, and as the tree
Stands in the sun and shadows all beneath, So in the light of great eternity
Life eminent creates the shade of death; The shadow passeth when the tree shall fall,
But I shall reign forever over all".