Easter time in Zagreb Croatia Ban Jelacic Square

Wishing you all a Happy and Peaceful and Joyous and Blessed Easter!
I have chosen a Croatian poem that I hope will bring as much meaning to you as it does to me.

The Dawn of Life
(original poem by Boris Javor/Adrian Vinković Rangel; translated by Ina Vukic)

I have searched for the real me a long time,
I wandered across the world that’s filled with delusions,
and searched for the light of the first cause,
of new Sun for salvation to shine.

You, wake us so we can follow the Dawn of life,
You, allow Your goodness to lead us into
the Dawn of life.

Today I understood that we were given everything,
in accordance with the love that spreads from you.
And the time is coming when joy will ignite everywhere,
for that beautiful moment my heart watches.

You, illuminate…

Easter time in Zagreb Croatia Ban Jelacic Square

Wishing you all a Happy and Peaceful and Joyous and Blessed Easter!
I have chosen a Croatian poem that I hope will bring as much meaning to you as it does to me.

The Dawn of Life
(original poem by Boris Javor/Adrian Vinković Rangel; translated by Ina Vukic)

I have searched for the real me a long time,
I wandered across the world that’s filled with delusions,
and searched for the light of the first cause,
of new Sun for salvation to shine.

You, wake us so we can follow the Dawn of life,
You, allow Your goodness to lead us into
the Dawn of life.

Today I understood that we were given everything,
in accordance with the love that spreads from you.
And the time is coming when joy will ignite everywhere,
for that beautiful moment my heart watches.

You, illuminate…

Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.
— Good Will Hunting

My grandmother had a small two-bedroom apartment on the second floor of a building in Youngstown, Ohio. My parents would drop me off for a visit, and Grandma Myers and I would spend several days, just the two of us. We would visit Mill Creek Park and walk through the extensive flower gardens.

Each visit, I would perch on one of her two couches, and look through old loose photographs, older generations of Shumakers and Myers intermingling with newer ones in the disorganized drawer of her breakfront. She would sit beside me, naming people, so that I learned my family’s faces without ever meeting most of them. After several years, I knew who they all were myself. I loved looking through those photographs, most of them black and white, seeing my mother as she grew up.

On…

Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.
— Good Will Hunting

My grandmother had a small two-bedroom apartment on the second floor of a building in Youngstown, Ohio. My parents would drop me off for a visit, and Grandma Myers and I would spend several days, just the two of us. We would visit Mill Creek Park and walk through the extensive flower gardens.

Each visit, I would perch on one of her two couches, and look through old loose photographs, older generations of Shumakers and Myers intermingling with newer ones in the disorganized drawer of her breakfront. She would sit beside me, naming people, so that I learned my family’s faces without ever meeting most of them. After several years, I knew who they all were myself. I loved looking through those photographs, most of them black and white, seeing my mother as she grew up.

On…

By Jackie Saulmon Ramirez | April 16, 2014

Always a studious child, when it was time for the science project, she went to the library, chose an experiment and turned it in on time.

Can your children count on you? Can your kids count on what you say today meaning the same thing tomorrow?

When nine-year-old Chelsey was in the fifth grade, Mr. Ramirez wanted her to work harder and perhaps bring her Bs and Cs up to As so he made her a deal, he would give her $10 for every A she brought home the next marking period. Always a studious child, she was filled with renewed energy and spent more time on homework and studying for tests. When it was time for the science project, she went to the library, chose an experiment and turned it in on time. All the while she thought not only about…