Posted February 5th, 2010 at 9:48 pm / Uncategorized / Author: Laura / Comments: (0)
I have a recipe for the tastiest soup
And when you get a taste
You’ll first lose it
Then regroup.
Take a smidgen of vanity
A bucket of tears
Cut up some anger,
And shred up the years
Add in the moments of sweetness in life
With a pinch of spicy fantasies
Then pour on the whine.
Stir in the wisdom, those nice onion pearls…
Now pass over a bowl , and lets give it a whirl!
Posted February 5th, 2010 at 9:29 pm / Poetry / Author: Laura / Comments: (0)
“Lost in Hawaii”
By: Laura Tidwell
My writing, my words, they are lost somewhere,
In a sea full of papers, for degrees, if you care.
Like clouds that are fluffy, to see, but not touch.
They’ve floated away, and I miss them so much.
Like salt in my skin, where a wound has been made.
I quote other people to get passing grades.
Like gulls who shriek, professors stalk their prey
While my brain is in Hawaii, on a bright and sunny day.
Posted February 4th, 2009 at 11:28 pm / Poetry / Author: Laura / Comments: (0)
What a loyal pet you were
For ,oh, so many years.
Your grace, your poise
Brought love your way
That was so very clear.
What a joy it was,
When Mema brought you home.
Adoration was immense,
And in our hearts ’twas known.
You’d dance for your vitamin,
Or play “lame duck” for show.
Dragging your little hind legs.
Like paralysis
To and fro’.
You were just a pup,
We never left you alone.
I was just a toddler,
Together, we learned as we’d grow.
You were with Mema,
In the thick
Like when I,
Was very sick.
Too, too ill
To go out and play,
Then Grandaddy’s heart stopped,
And he passed away.
You were cute
With your little scarf.
They practically
had to tear you,
And Granddaddy apart.
You jumped into the casket,
To kiss him one last goodbye.
Before they dropped that basket
And everyone began to cry.
Then you moved to Georgia,
And told Florida adieu,
I could see you everyday.
A little Selfish, that’s true!
Then one night,
Again, we all cried,
Announcing that
“In Mema’s arms
Little Baby died.”
The storm was rough,
As power went out,
Light bulbs burned
In more then just the house.
We realized,
As Mema started to Shutter
The sad ,sad words
That were about,
To be uttered.
“Baby is gone!”
She didn’t survive the storm.
Her heart has stopped,
Her body is not warm.
You were the pet,
I knew the best
And so I loved you,
A little more then the rest.
We saw
your reflection.
Mema And I,
In the shape of a cloud
Up in the sky.
We know you’re in heaven
Waiting to greet us,
With the same tender spirit
And your heart that we loved.
Adieu precious Baby
Until we meet again!
To everyone in the family
You were the most loyal friend.
You are loved!
Posted January 30th, 2009 at 3:22 am / Poetry / Author: Laura / Comments: (2)
Coloring With Crayons
By: Laura Tidwell
Can you help me reach them?
I’m just a little small.
I don’t know if there is a chance
I’ll ever get that tall.
I need to draw a picture,
To show you how I feel.
I’m just a little scared right now,
And not sure how to deal.
I need the brown for my hair,
And yellow for the sun.
I like that I have dark hair
And I’ll be sad when its gone.
I know that it will grow back,
But what girls shave their head?
I know that I should not care,
Since I could end up dead.
I want to make my cheeks pink
And wear a red dress!
Red’s my favorite color!
It’s better then all the rest!
Are my sisters coming?
I want to draw them too.
I love coloring pictures,
I hope there’s more to do.
Did I really drown?
I can’t remember much.
I do know that an angel
Left me with its touch.
Why did I see it?
What does it mean?
Am I making pretend?
It didn’t feel like a dream.
I am scared to go to sleep now,
I don’t want to die,
When I wake up from my long nap
I hope there’s a butterfly.
Seven hours later,
As my vision, becomes clear
I wake with hesitation,
And a bandage near my ear.
Look,a butterfly!
On the window ledge!
Today, I lived through brain surgery
Mommy, I’m not dead!
I want to draw a picture,
Of my family
I want to draw my nurse,
And the doctor who saved me.
Can I see my crayons?
I can not reach from here…
But one day I bet I’ll be tall
Enough to reach up there!
Posted January 20th, 2009 at 7:47 am / Poetry / Author: Laura / Comments: (0)
Like an earthquake in my heart,
The soil breaks and scatters,
Growing me in too many directions.
Roots grip to me, while my roots grip back.
Yet I am but a dandelion in a vast field of grass.
I tremble from the quakes that have shaken my stability.
So much bigger, are they,
Than the physical embodiment of experience.
I know I am but a blooming weed,
And yet
I will have purpose!
Beauty or practicality?
Tea or a bouquet?
My fate remains to be determined.
Yet in a moment of a quake,
My petals will shake,
And these roots will grip
To whatever grows them.
Posted January 19th, 2009 at 4:05 pm / Introduction / Author: Laura / Comments: (0)
Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
1.I was born a week early, breach, folded up, and twice, because my dad made my mother suck me back in because she was laughing at his stupid remark.
2. I like pigs…a lot, they are adorable…but they do taste good too, I know I am sick!
3.I went to stagedoor manor in New york, and was in Play with Ron Howard’s Daughter, Paige, and bunked with Andy Rooney’s granddaughter, Alexis Rooney Perkins!( I am looking for Alexis by the way!)
4. One of my closest friends is Kendra, I seem to trust her with everything!
5. I have lived in Columbus for over 15 years!
6. I am an aspiring model ( plus sized and petite, the odds are against me, but I’ve got work so far.)
7. I found my faith in a hospital bed, when I woke from a coma
8. Then I had a brain surgery a few weeks later.
9. I work with doctors recruiting cancer patients now to my parents’ cancer clinic.
10. I have six classes until I graduate
11. I am not paralyzed, Brain damaged, mute blind or dead, though everyone thought any of that might happen!
12. I have not scrapbooked in a few months, but I love to scrapbook life adventures, and special moments
13. I have been to 4 continents!
14. I am a former missionary.
15. The farthest I have been from my home is Japan and Hawaii
16. I have severe depression though don’t act like it most of the time.
17.I plan to write an autobiography one day, if I can sit down and do it…I commend people who actually sit down and do it.
18.I forget several times daily that I have a new car, and not my sweet little tracker, though Ralfie is great!
19. I have website that’s not completely polished, but fun to maintain. (duh)
20. I am in Xi theta
21. I hate it when my bangs are in my eyes !
22. I am allergic to shell fish and have acid reflux so I am not suppose to eat most food groups, but I do anyway.
23. I recently found my childhood best friend on facebook, who knew me when I had my brain tumor still.
24. I twitter
25. I have a reputation for getting good gifts, when I don’t do that, I am really hard on myself.
Posted January 16th, 2009 at 6:56 pm / Exciting news!, Uncategorized / Author: Laura / Comments: (2)
Do you know how cool Facebook is? If you don’t, read this, you’ll understand. I got on a forum on facebook, that was devoted to people who had fond memories of my old elementary school, I told my story about that year, that I had my brain surgery…and about the people at that school who positively changed my life.Well, I got directed where to find someone I have been looking for for 15 years! I just found my best friend from third grade! She was in the fourth grade, and I was in the third.Her mother was the best teacher I ever had. She was my third grade teacher. She tutored me after school, and she had my school’s whole third grade and fourth grade write me get well cards when I had my brain surgery. Her name is Natalie. I have very few memories of that year, but I remember that Natalie played with me after school, and her mother would eat lunch with me at School. I was a special needs kid, I had the seizures…well, we were friends 17 years ago, and for 15 years I have been looking for her,and today I found her! I can not believe it! I am so excited I am can’t breathe!!! Anyway, Facebook rocks! I know I repeated myself, but this is tremendously exciting for me!
Laura
Posted January 14th, 2009 at 6:12 am / Uncategorized / Author: Laura / Comments: (0)
Hello again everyone. This is a picture of charlie and I. We were headed to Boomtown on Christmas day ! BoomTown is a casino in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. I don’t know if you can look at my lip and tell, but I had just gotten a gigantic fever blister! I hate getting those things. Now I have had them since I was a little girl, I inherited them from my mom. It makes it very difficult to aspire to something like modeling when you can have a flare up at anytime,and look like the lovingly assigned nickname I stumbled upon my first year of college, Barnacle lips…which I then translated to Barnacle Bettie…Mine finally went away from that flare up…but I am up at 6 am, and thinking about getting a medicine, that permanently keeps those things in check…On another note, the food was amazing at Boomtown. Charlie friend’s came with us. I don’t have permission to put one of the friends’ photo up, and don’t have a photo of the other one, so I will just keep them anonymous…I will tell you that, this was a fabulous day, depsite my painful and obvious feeling swollen lip.
Posted January 10th, 2009 at 6:06 pm / My adventures / Author: Laura / Comments: (2)
Today one of my best friends and I had lunch together, and then went ice skating, I said I was making
it a goal not to fall,and then I fell in big messy heap, and could not balance myself to get back up on the ice, when I finally did get up, I took a picture of the wet spots on me,and the ice brush on my coat, however…It was a blast! Here are pictures!
Posted January 9th, 2009 at 9:14 am / Discussion, Exciting news! / Author: Laura / Comments: (0)
So everyone, I got my plans for spring break in the works. I am flying in to LaGuardia in NYC, and staying there for two days, then I am taking the train to Philadelphia and staying there for 3 days. I am very excited. This will be a big trip for me. Two big cities in one spring break…It will be great, I do believe.I will be visiting my friend in NYC, and my brother and his girlfriend in Philly. I might be going to A Britney Spears concert in Philly, and I hear it is a great show. Even if you think she is a mediocre singer, supposedly the spectacle is great. I will keep you posted though, as to hwo everything unfolds…what I know now, is Have aticket for NYC and a ticket out fo Philly.YAY!
Laura