I do not really have a title in mind for this post so this post can be called my most recent reflections

Most recently I have been reflecting on everything that has happened in my life. Since coming to college, I have learned a lot about myself. I have learned that the people I choose to be friends with are the people who show they care and understand that I am my own individual. I have learned that in a given situation, I listen to what people have to say about it and I tend to trust my gut more than what they say. I have learned that the people I have become friends with are very good people and I can see that they are becoming some of the people who are important to me. I found that I am starting to have a deeper connection to who I am, but I might not ever be fully connected. I have a lot to learn and I know that I will do my best. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that “it is the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” The friends I still keep in touch with I can apply this quote to. The people I have become friends with now, I hope to one day be able to do that. I have also reflected on what I believe in. And I found that I believe in not knowing- and that would be not knowing where we will go when we die, not knowing what will happen next, not even knowing what might be happening in the present moment. I also believe in the interconnected web of all life. For me that means we are all threads that are moving in different directions. The people around us who we meet our thread makes a connection with that person’s thread and sometime those threads intertwine for a while and other times they hit and continue on their separate ways. While my belief in not knowing seems unconventional and may make people believe that I believe in being ignorant, but that is not the case.

-Rachel Dudley, Queen of the FeLions (from the planet Felion), Prisoner Fe26Li3O8N7

Post ten

Looking back over the posts, I was not super surprised. Maybe only one post gave me a little surprise, but it has reason for that. I found this project to be very interesting. It seemed to basically just need thoughts about different ideas that made one happy and unhappy. This all seemed very simple, even though there were stuff that were hard to write. I did not really find happiness with this. I actually found some peace and sometimes I was able to just relax and not have any worries of whether it was good or bad or a complete waste of time.

At first I was trying to have every other post something that makes me happy and something that makes me unhappy. But then post eight and nine are things that make me happy. I feel that I was trying to avoid some subjects that I said made me unhappy. Overall I feel accomplished in having at least gotten this assignment done. Mrs. Shultz-Bill you can grade this blog tomorrow January fifth two thousand and fifteen, if you so desire to. I am sooooooooooooo glad that this is finished. It takes time to figure what I want to say in each post. I may not have hated this assignment like my sister did, but I wanted to finish it.

-Rachel Dudley, Queen of the FeLions (from the planet Felion), Prisoner Fe26Li3O8N7

Post nine.............Music and Blood

Music and my family both make me happy. My family are the rocks that I can lean on and music runs in my family. My granddad on my dad’s side and my grandmother on my mom’s side both play instruments. So does my grandmother on my dad’s side, and my aunts and uncles. My mom and dad also play instruments. My brother, sister and I all play instruments. So I can easily find myself lost in the world of music, quite literally.

Music, depending on the piece, tends to take me away. For instance, when I played the Bach Cello Suite Number One, Prelude, otherwise known as the Cello Song, I was just taken away by the music and started to move with the piece. Music has always been a part of my life since I was born. Before first grade I would mess around on a tiny violin. Then in first grade I chose the cello because it had a beautiful tone and I liked it.

This is a version of the Bach Cello Suite played by Yo-Yo Ma. https://youtu.be/PCicM6i59_I .

My family consists of my dad, my mom, my brother, my sister and I. It also consists of two parrots (used to be three parrots), three cats, and a beagle.  Smoochie, the beagle, does sing when I practice, but only if she wants to.The parrots sing at a consistent hour everyday. The cats do not really sing, but one or two play the piano by jumping on the keys and walking across them. It makes an awfully nice sound.

Sometimes I imagine a world where if a person says that something runs in their family, then the thing would come out when they bleed, since family is blood. So if in one person’s family archery runs in the family then everyone bleeds archery and are good archers.But I would not say that everyone is good at what may “run” in their family. Music may “run” in my family, but it does not mean everyone in my family HAS to be a musician. We can choose our own path. My parents may be music teachers but that does not mean I HAVE to follow in their footsteps and be a music teacher too. It means that I can be an engineer if I want to.

To conclude this post, I love my family and it makes me happy to be able to play a musical instrument and I hope that I never quit my music.☺

-Rachel Dudley, Queen of the FeLions (from the planet Felion), Prisoner Fe26Li3O8N7

Post eight.......Prisons and Books

I quite enjoy school. Going to school is something that I find myself lucky to be doing. I mean, in history, there was a long time that it was considered any girl who knew how to read and write was considered a witch or a fragmentation from hell. Though there are times where, like every student, I have considered school to be a dark and dreary prison and the wardens to be the administrators and the guards to be the security. But the teachers also be prisoners forced to teach students who may or may not want to learn from the trove of knowledge that they hold.

School can be related to reading which is something that makes me happy so in theory school makes me happy. There are classes at school I may not want to take but to graduate I must take them. School throughout time has evolved. At one point School was just a place where one learned to read and write and learned arithmetic and a little history. Then other subjects were introduced. Today there are many institutions for learning. Back then, before 1900s, there were not very many institutions except for the one in town or in the town next door.

I find myself trying to take the classes that will better prepare me for college, to hopefully reduce the number of core classes I will need to take. I also find myself trying to take classes that I know that I will enjoy. I love going to school for learning is fun and knowledge is powerful.

-Rachel Dudley, Queen of the FeLions (from the planet Felion), Prisoner Fe26Li3O8N7

Post Seven...Moths.... Madmen's Daughters, Warrior Cats, and Grimm

Reading makes me happy. I read everywhere I go, from the signs on a highway to the words in a text message. When I read I can become absorbed into the story of what I read. Each book I read that is for fun and not for school catches my eye like moths and flies are attracted to light.

A series I read and finished recently is The Madman’s Daughter series. This series is based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I have read almost an entire series which has miniseries within the entire world. Warriors(written by Erin Hunter) is a saga about four clans of cats but really the clan followed is Thunderclan with Firestar as their leader.Though Firestar started life as a pet. He left home in the very first book to join Thunderclan whose leader was Bluestar. The first series goes into a sequels about his clan when he becomes leader. Then later into sequels about his children then his grandchildren. I quite like the saga.

I read most of the stories in The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. I like the stories where people die in the Grimm stories. What makes me happy about reading is that reading causes there to be an image in my mind based on what the author writes. I hate reading books on an electronic device. It is hard to read the words and touching paper helps bring the story in. Writing in books has never been something that I feel is great or fun to do. I have learned throughout years that I should not write in a book especially a library book because you never know when someone may pick that book up and find that the words block the story from their mind and their enjoyment of the book.

-Rachel Dudley, Queen of the FeLions (from the planet Felion), Prisoner Fe26Li3O8N7

Post Six.........Feathers and Hammers

Death is an ending of a life well lived or not well lived. Death is like the night sky, infinite in length and distance. Death can happen at any moment. Death is an abstract idea that makes all humans sad. One instance that humans all are sad when it happens is when they lose a beloved member of their family. Another if it is a friend. Friends come in all shapes sizes and species. Death can be as soft as a landing feather or as loud as a pounding hammer. While death makes me unhappy, my family can help me heal when death occurs. And I can help them. Death may sound and look scary, but it really isn’t. It is just a part of the circle of life.

-Rachel Dudley, Queen of the FeLions (from the planet Felion), Prisoner Fe26Li3O8N7

Post Five...........Pluto and Sore Feet

Dance makes me happy because when I dance any frustration with school or with parents goes away. Dance to me is what ice is to those who have extremely sore feet, basically something of a relief from reality. When I first danced, it was ballet. Since I can remember I had a goal in dance to get onto my toes and dance. At one point this goal seemed to be as far away as Pluto is to Earth. I felt I would never achieve the goal.

According to http://www.space.com/18566-pluto-distance.html Pluto is between 2.66 billion miles and 4.67 billion miles away from Earth.

Not only does ballet help but so does tap. When I was able to dance in heeled tap shoes, I was excited. I do not really have any goals in tap except to be the best tap dancer I can.

-Rachel Dudley, Queen of the FeLions (from the

planet FeLion), Prisoner Fe26Li3O8N7