A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.
An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day...this day we fight.
-Aragorn-
Yesterday afternoon, I went to see the movie The Giver with my dad and sister. I'm not going to lie, at first I thought it was a little slow and confusing. But as the plot developed and the movie went on, it started becoming more clear and less strange. The Giver is about a boy, Jonas, who lives in a Utopia where everyone is the same. They wear the same clothes, speak the same, and there are no colors. Jonas is chosen to be The Receiver on graduation day (where every eighteen year old is assigned a job). The Receiver is given all the memories from that past that have been lost, from The Giver. As Jonas gains all of these memories *spoiler* he starts to realize that the "Community" they are living is incomplete and empty. There are strict rules (never lie, precision of language etc.), curfews, and no emotions (due to daily injections). All in all, the movie was great and very interesting! My dad and I were talking about it and he said, "It's strange, most movies these days are about teenagers. And there's a teen who is a Christ like figure trying to save the world."As I thought about it, I realized he was right. It kind of feels like Hollywood ran out of ideas so they keep repeating the same plot line but with different characters with goals that "sound" different. While I watched The Giver, I noticed that while people may deny that there is a God, and that Jesus died for our sins, they can't help putting a "Messiah" in their books and movies. Anyway, just a thought. Hope this little review was helpful for this highly recommended movie!
Today, girls don't really see their dads as the protectors of their hearts. My best friend showed me this a few weeks ago and it's a parody of a song by the band MAGIC, but from the dad's perspective. Honestly, I think it's very accurate and also hilarious!
I just finished my 4th year doing a steer at the fair! It was tons of fun and VERY exhausting. It's hard getting up every day to get to the fair grounds in time to clean pens, feed the animals, AND get them and myself ready to show that day. My steer, Tornado, wasn't on his best behavior, but he placed first in confirmation which gave me the #5 spot in the sale! Very proud of him and I'm sad that he's being hauled away tonight. I'm gonna miss that animal even though he had a strange obsession with licking/eating leather. One of the members of my 4-H club won grand champion showman overall for the beef barn and got to participate in the Round Robin which is where all the champion showmen from the other barns show lambs, goats, pigs, horses, dairy cattle, and steers. For being a Junior Showman, he did fantastic! He didn't win Master Showman, but he did us all proud:) It's been a great experience and I can't wait for next year! So there's my FAST summary of fair 2014!
