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Basing his philosophy on ancient Toltec wisdom Miguel Ruiz said it best in his book, The Four Agreements.
Posted by Autumn T Newell on Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Filed under Featured, News, Reflections, Resources · Tagged learn from the pain, Miguel Ruez, philosophy, The Four Agreements, theory, wisdom
I am really looking forward to seeing the Hunger Games movie. Another teacher recommended the book so I read it over the summer—glad I did! I’m hooked on the series. With the movie coming out in March I was excited to see who had been cast for the roles. During my Google search I stumbled [...]
Posted by Autumn T Newell on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 11:08 pm
Filed under Featured, News, Reflections · Tagged Books, Hunger Games racism, March Movies, Movie racism, Movies from books, Rue is black, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games Movie
Replacing the “n” word with the word “slaves” covers-up the true attitude of many living in south (or U.S) during that time.
Posted by Autumn T Newell on Friday, January 7, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Filed under Featured, News, Reflections · Tagged "n" word, history, Huckleberry Finn, literature, Mark Twain, PC, Politically correct, truth
This time last year I was telling my daughters and son-in-law that I wanted a fireplace for Christmas. Nothing fancy, one of those fireplaces that you just push against the wall-could even been electric. Well my daughter came across a floor model stereo system that looked like a fireplace. One of consoles made back in [...]
Posted by Autumn T Newell on Friday, December 17, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Filed under Featured, News, Reflections · Tagged antique stereo, craig's list, fireplace, ironic, merry christmas, santa, true story
After having a long chat with a very close friend of mine he inspired me to write about friendship. So when you see some of your words/ideas in this blog don’t sue me. We all have our own idea about what the role is of a true friend, but one thing I am sure we [...]
This book was great! The story took place in Jackson, Mississippi during the civil rights era. Now when the main character, Skeeter, decides to write a book about the realities of being a black maid in the south, Abileen (who is one of the maids) knows that they are risking their lives by getting involved.
Posted by Autumn T Newell on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Filed under Featured, News, Reflections · Tagged audio book, audio version, civil rights era, dialect, Eat, Elizabeth Gilbert, Jackson, Kathryn Stockett’s, love, Mississippi, Pray, public library, The Help
The people behind us, an older couple, whispered through the movie ( a little), ate popcorn, snickered a couple times
Posted by Autumn T Newell on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Filed under News, Reflections · Tagged chewing your gum so loud, funny, life's random, movie, phone on vibrate, popcorn, Prince of Persia, Who Are You Giving Grace?, Would you stop Chewing?
Hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil spewing into the ocean will have grave effects on the planet
Posted by Autumn T Newell on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Filed under Featured, News, Reflections · Tagged barrels of oil, BP oil spill, Deepwater explosion, effects on the planet, fine them, oil spill, prepared for the worst
That’s toxic pollution; sediment pollution; nutrient pollution; and bacterial pollution flowing through this once beautiful body of water.
Posted by Autumn T Newell on Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Filed under Reflections · Tagged 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen, bacterial pollution, cancer ally, clean body of water, dead zone, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River, nutrient pollution, OMG, pollution, rant, sediment pollution, toxic levels, toxic pollution
I have days when God feels like He is right there; the wind beneath my wings.