i have to write a paper for my holocaust class. i am still trying to figure out a topic.
but i have to think of one soon so i can get this done. otherwise my next month will be lived on the brink of tears. i've learned more than i want to know about it, you know?
i just cannot get over how the seemingly ordinary german people turned into such monsters. you see these pictures of people that had just dug their own graves... a line of soldiers behind them, opening fire. how could you possibly ever dig your own grave? how could you sit at the edge of a pit filled with the people killed before you? it's mind-boggling. and what the nazis did... completely turned the jewish people into something other than human.
pictures are so sad. elderly women walking children along a road they didn't realize would lead them to their death. mothers leading along their children.. completely precious little angels. i really just cannot fathom it.
i chose this picture instead of one i'm talking about because i didn't want to visually assault anyone. that's how i feel about yahoo mail when they show me these ads for a rescue group that show bear baiting and starving dogs. i really don't think it's fair that when i go to check my email, i have to get heart-sick like those pictures make me.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
