Quote
"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter."
- Beverly Sills

Lyric
"And when the night is cloudy,
There is a light that shines on me,
Shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music,
Mother Mary comes to me,
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be."
- Let it Be, The Beatles

Poem
"The stream runs clear to its stones;
the fish swim in sharp outline.
Girl, turn your face for me to draw.
Tomorrow, if we should drift apart,
I shall find you by this picture."
- The Painting, John Balaban

Question
What do you believe?
(Example: I believe...
... cats should rule the world.
... the computer is the best device ever made.
... so on and so forth)

Quote
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
- Amy Lowell

Lyric
"Here I'm in between darkness and light,
bleached and blinded by these nights.
Where I'm tossing and tortured 'til dawn
by you, visions of you then you're gone.
The shock lifts the red from my face
when I hear someone's taking my place.
How could love be so thoughtless, so cruel
when all, all that I did was for you?
I break in two over you.
I break in two
and each piece of me dies.
And only you can give the breath of life,
but you dont see me you dont."
- Autumn's Monolouge, From Autumn to Ashes

Poem
"O King, my lord, I draw nigh to life's end,
To me the frailities of life have come.
And second childhood... Ah! the old lie down
Each day is suffering; the vision fails,
Ears become deaf and strength declines apace.
The mind is ill at ease.... An old man's tongue
has naught to say because his thoughts have fled,
And he forgets the day that has gone past....
Meanwhile his body aches in every bone;
The sweet seems bitter, for taste is lost.
Ah! such are the afflictions of old age,
which work for evil... Fitful and weak
his breath becomes, standing or lying down."
- A vizer feels the burden of his years and lamants his fate to Pharaoh, Egyptian Poem entitled Old Age

Question
If you could live in any time period, what time/where would you live and why?

Quote
"A person who trusts no one can't be trusted."
- Jerome Blattner

Lyric
"The best of times are when I'm alone with you
Some rain some shine, we'll make this a world for two
Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime
We'll take the best, forget the rest
And someday we'll find these are the best of times
These are the best of times"
- Best of Times, Styx

Poem
"This will be another one of those
loose changes, the rearrangement of
hearts, just parts of old lives
patched together, gathered into
a dim constellation, small consolation."
- Naming the Stars, Joyce Sutphen

Question
What does your favorite color say about you?

Quote
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."

- Gore Vidal
Lyric
"I walk a lonely road
The only one I that have ever known
Don't know were it goes
But its home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone"
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day

Poem
"I was asleep while you were dying.
It’s as if you slipped through some rift, a hollow
I make between my slumber and my waking,
the Erebus I keep you in, still trying
not to let go. You’ll be dead again tomorrow,
but in dreams you live. So I try taking
you back into morning. Sleep-heavy, turning,
my eyes open, I find you do not follow.
Again and again, this constant forsaking."
- Myth, Natasha Trethewey

Question
Where do you think you will be in 10 years? What about your family, or those really close to you?