amazing mom

I hope you to like this video.. I chose it becuase after watching it I made myself a reflection of life..do we realy enjoy life?..fortunatly most of us are very lucky of having everithing we need to live and we forgot about the ones who didn't have.
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=_ljyQiJZB4A

Mother Teresa, 10 th anniversary of her dead

Ten days ago, the 5 th of September, people of all the world have met to remember the 10th anniversary of the dead of the Mother Teresa. With this short biography I want to make us remember her and think about all the poor people she had dedicated her life´s work .

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhio (her real name) on the 27th of August 1910 in Skopje, capital of Macedonia. Gonxha (flower bud) grew up in wealthy Catholic Albanian family. She was brought up very religiously by her parents. Her father died unexpectedly when she was ten; she dedicated even more of her time to her belief following this event. At the age of 12 she decided that she wanted to lead a life as a nun. She followed her desire to become a nun passionately and was accepted into the Loreto Order at the age of 18.

This order and its members were particularly committed to education in Bengal and Indian. Her first post was not in India but in Ireland at the Central office of the Loreto Order. She left Skopje on the 28th of September 1928 for Ireland. After only two months she was allowed to follow her dream and she joined the Loreto Order in Bengal. She took her first vow in Calcutta. She spent the following 17 years in St. Mary's School in Calcutta. Working initially as a teacher, she was later promoted to governor.

It was on one of her numerous journeys through Calcutta in 1946 that she felt God's calling to help the poor. She was granted permission to leave the Order two years later. Teresa left the Order but was allowed to keep her status as a nun Teresa made the decision to live among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. She became known as the "Saint of the Gutters".
In 1949 she was given Indian nationality and founded the "Missionaries of Charity" order in 1950. The members of the order had to take a vow of celibacy and pledge an oath of allegiance to the poor. The order was later recognized by the Pope and placed under his control. Teresa and her order focused mainly on the dieing, the ill and on orphans. She was especially interested in looking after lepers. More than 3,000 nuns and 500 monks in over 100 countries belong to this order today. She received many awards for her selfless work, the most important of which was the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

Many of Theresa's workers lacked sufficient medical training. Mother Teresa replied to this by saying: "It is not success, but the dedication to one's faith that is important". Receiving worldwide tribute for her work, she was also criticized for her conservative views. She viewed the abortion policies of many countries, for example, as the largest threat to world peace. Shortly before the Irish were due to vote on whether divorce should be legalized, she urged the Irish to vote no.
Mother Teresa died on 5th of September 1997. She was buried in Calcutta before the gaze of the world's public. She was beatify on 19th of October 2003 by the Pope John Paul II and nowadays they are trying to probe her miracles to finally lead in her canonization.

In my opinion this kind of women are models of life and we all must try to be, day by day, like her. I meant not in the dimensions she have done but in daily life, with the ones we have nearer. If we all do only a little for our neighbour, the society will be better.

Here I found a very good video, it is about the katrina disaster and has a song written by Chris Cornell in tribute to the victims , the song talks about Bush's neglince towards what happened in New Orleans, the name of the song is Wide awake here you have the lyric:

You can look a hurricane right in the eye

Twelve-hundred people dead

All left to die, follow the leaders

Were in an eye for an eye

We'd all be blind

Deaf or murdered, this I'm sure

In this uncertain time

So come pull the sheet over my eyes

So I can sleep tonight

Despite what I've seen today

I find you guilty of a crime

Of sleeping at a time

When you should have been wide awake

Down on the road the world is floating by

The poor and undefended left behind

While you're somewhere trading lives for oil

As if the whole world were blind

So come pull the sheet over my eyes
So I can sleep tonight
Despite what I've seen today
I find you guilty of a crime
Of sleeping at a time
When you should have been wide awake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLj7qHg0Jg

School Time

I´ve been reading your posts and comments, they´re are all deep and thoughtful with a personal touch that makes them a pleasure to read. Great!!! The point of this blog is that we all share and discuss some ideas, feelings and doubts we have as we move along this road that is called life.


LAUGHTER... TEARS... FRIENDSHIP... GROWTH

Now, I would like to engage you in a kind of TRIP back to your school experience, from the moment you started kinder till now, when you have to make a decision of huge importance for the rest of your lives. I suggest you carry out some of these tasks to share and remember:

A photo album of your years at school
A movie/video of some unforgettable trip, concert, etc.
A funny anecdote with your classmates, teachers
An autobiography as a student at Saint Patrick's School
A dream you still want to come true with your friends/classmates

... or any other idea that comes to your mind.

now I´d like to share with you a well-known Graduation song in the U.S.
Then tell me what you think about it. Do you find feelings in common? Would you suggest a different song (from Argentina or another culture)? Do you know a poem or reflection about this event? Well, you are all welcome to get inspired and express yourselves!!

Best Time Of Our Lives
lyrics
Artist - Green Day
Album - International Superhits!

Another turning point
A fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist
Directs you where to go
So make the best of this test
And don't ask why
It's not a question
But a lesson learned in time
It's something unpredictable
But in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life
So take the photographs
And still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf of good health
And good time
Tattoos of memories
And dead skin on trial
For what it's worth
It was worth all the while
It's something unpredictable
But in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life

People Passing by

[Daybreak:]
A September sun emerges through clouds, chasing across the sky.
Thoughts are evoked behind detached eyes but people are just passing by:
With smiles for protection.
Unable to see
behind the creature that he seems to be.
Once he was a child with burning desires
with hopes and dreams of what was to come.
So he's lost some faith but still there are fires
deep inside that he must drench to numb.
If we could try to share some of his wounds just for a while.
But we're all just people passing by![daniel magdic][Midday:]
He's searching through crowds for one that is gone.
Rejecting the facts one more day.
Talking too loud to silence the glow. Coldness becoming his way.
Empathy can't reach through all that blame!
Smiles now forgotten, locked in their frames!
Now he's counting time in beggings and bottles
fading away beneath old news.
So he lost a war: "will I be dead very long?"
He can still hear his voice through the coldness!
If we could try to ease some of his pain just for a while.
But we're all just people passing by!
[Part second: memorials (instrumental)][Part last: nightfall]
Once he was strong, and filled with visions.
With life ahead he set his aims.
Then things went wrong.
Now his ambitions have turned to smiles conserved in frames.
Still could be strong could be a prophet!
He would teach truth to every man!
He'd see the light through every shadow, but Entropia denies he can!
He's sitting numb while dusk is falling. Alone he whispers his "goodnight"
Turning away, when sleep is calling, from all the people passing by...
Walk with me
And change the world we see
We’ll cease to be
Just people passing by
Home is where we all get by

Pain of Salvation is a Swedish progressive metal band kind of unknown here in Argentina or al least in Tucuman.Their sound is characterized by powerful, accentuated guitar work, broad vocal range, abrupt switching between heavy and calm passages, intense syncopation, and polyrhythmic experimentation. But actually what I found really interesting about this band are the topics that they kind of debate in their albums.
Some examples of the topics addressed in the band's albums are: war and its effect on family and humanity, environmental issues (e.g., nuclear power), the forming of the individual, and the nature of God, humankind, and existence.
This song called People Passing By is from their first studio album called Entropia. It is a concept album concerning a family in a fictional society that is torn apart by a war. The title is a portmanteau of Entropy (from thermodynamics, the measure of disorder present in a system), and Utopia (the ideal society, we read it on Brave New World).
I think what they are trying to show with this song is the luck of interest and sympathy that people have according to someone else’s problems. We keep on “passing by” without looking around us and not realizing that there is so much to do to help others and change the way we are living… and more important , that we are actually able to do it if we try it. We keep on caring about ourselves thinking that our own good is what really matters and constantly complaining about some insignificant problem and we don’t even notice , or worst care,that there other thousand r people facing problems we don’t even imagine that exists. If we keep on like this nothing is ever going to change.
I don’t know, is just a though.Hope you read it and tell me your opinion

goodbye england rose-The song that made Elton John's for the Princess Diana.

Goodbye England's rose, may you ever grow in our hearts.You were the grace that placed itselfwhere lives were torn apart.You called out to our country,and you whispered to those in pain.Now you belong to heaven,and the stars spell out your name.And it seems to me you lived your lifelike a candle in the wind:never fading with the sunsetwhen the rain set in.And your footsteps will always fall here,along England's greenest hills;your candle's burned out long beforeyour legend ever will.Loveliness we've lost;these empty days without your smile.This torch we'll always carryfor our nation's golden child.And even though we try,the truth brings us to tears;all our words cannot expressthe joy you brought us through the years.Goodbye England's rose,from a country lost without your soul,who'll miss the wings of your compassionmore than you'll ever know.

Utopia

We were talking last class about utopias. Is like, it is a word invented by people who think the world is a mess, and that it is impossible to fix it. Don't you think the world is perfect? Have you ever take a minute to think about life?, about the world?, how it works? the nature? the galaxy?
Have you studied a little bit the way your body works? I think that if you had ever think about that you wouldn't say the world is not perfect. Almost, if you read a bit about evolution, you'll realized the way the nature evolves and it is each time more perfect.
That something is perfect, doesn't mean it has no problems, and it is EVERYTHING ALRIGHT. To be perfect, is to work, in a way that it doesn't dissapear, meaning, it keeps on working, and in the way it can be, to evolve.
for example, we are all perfect. You will think "I'm not perfect becouse, i have this and that" but you are wrong, becouse, as human beings, we are all perfect. Our nature is to think and act the way we think, to have a concious, and that is the way we are. You think you are not perfect?, I think you are wrong.
The same way I think with the world we live. It works in a perfect way. And if there is something wrong, is becouse God, who is not perfect becouse he is the perfection itself, wanted it to be like that.
An utopia, is where we live, enjoy it!