If you want to see more of my poetry, go to www.poetry.com and in the search, type in my name. If you don't know my name, well I am not going to type it for all to see. However, I will give you this hint... if you are somehow able to find a picture of a girl with long black hair wearing a blue tee shirt and pin-covered backpack crouching next to a boy with a pink mohawk in a red tee and what appear to be Chuck Taylors. The boy is signing a small notebook that she holds out... my name should be at the bottom of the page. You have to use search engines. Try: Diocese of Charleston Miscellany and World Youth Day. World Youth Day was in July 2002. Happy hunting! (I know it can be done because I did it on Alta Vista ;-) )
If you were silent, do you think your friends would notice? I'm usually loud, jovial. I like to be seen as happy, whether I am or not. One day at lunch, I sat down. Someone asked me a question, I nodded my head. Tim commented on my mace earrings. I grinned and shook my head from side to side so they would bounce off my cheeks. Andrew asked why I wasn't saying anything. "It's unusual to have a silent Mary." I laughed and said that I hadn't meant to be silent. We moved to talk about the random things that friends will often talk about. Today, I sat with my usual group of "friends;" the friends with whom I fit so well. And today, I was quiet. There is a difference between quiet and silent. Especially when the quiet is you sitting, unsmiling, going through the motions and the silent includes you grinning and playing with your earrings. However, no one noticed. Isn't it odd? I think if one of my friends was bummed, I'd notice. If the were quiet, d...
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