Tallyn's Bard

Hello everyone!

So this summer Katy and I are putting on our own music camp. FiddleSticks Camp is a week long music camp held Burnet Texas for beginning violinists ages 5-10. I’ve posted the flyer below. If there’s anyone who you think might be interested please tell them about us! And we’d love if you posted this on your blogs too.

FiddleSticks Camp!

Calling all 5-10 year old violinists!  FiddleSticks Camp is a Christian music camp held in Burnet, Texas, for young musicians interested in learning the violin.  No previous experience required to attend the camp.

FiddleSticks Camp will be providing large group lessons, as well as smaller group lessons customized to a more personal skill level.  We’ll also have fun learning musical techniques daily with some fun interactive games.

August 9th-14th, 2010

Contact us at:  fiddlestickscamp@gmail.com

Website:  fiddlestickscamp.wordpress.com

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.”
– C. S. Lewis

Friends are…

there for each other….

to have fun together…

{she’s so cute}

to be creative together…

to love each other…

So ended our first day at the lake this summer

10:00 at night.

Katy: Anna… I forgot to turn off the sprinkler in that persons yard. I was supposed to turn it off at six. Do you think I should go turn it off?

Anna: yeah sure I’ll come with you.

Katy: okay, I need a flashlight. Dad, do you know where the flashlight is?

Dad: here you go.

We go outside. The concrete is still pretty wet because it had been raining.

Anna: which bike should I take?

Katy: the red one it’ better then the other ones.

We bike down the driveway and into the road.

Katy: You should probably go slowly because the brakes on that bike don’t work and the roads are wet.

Anna: oh, this is the best bike…. I only wonder what the others are like…. by the way did you tell your dad that we left?

Katy: no

Anna: did you tell your mom?

Katy: uh no

Anna: did you tell anyone?

Katy: uh… no

We biked down the road splashing through some puddles. The searchlight from the nearby jail shown brightly above our heads as it made it’s way across the sky. Fortunately we hadn’t done anything jail worthy… yet.  And we had both forgotten about the extremely dangerous criminal who had escaped from the prison only a year ago.

We bike out of sight of the house around a bend in the road and then around another bend. I discover that Katy was telling the truth about the brakes…

As we make our way onto streets that I’ve never been on before a large tree trunk looms up in the middle of the road.

Anna: so are these people on vacation?

Katy: yeah they won’t be back for a week.

We drive up the drive way to the empty house. We are now nicely situated so that we can’t be seen by any other house. Katy hops off her bike and disappears with the last source of light: the flashlight, leaving me alone in the black. Her head peaks back around the corner of the house.

Katy: so… you wanna  come with me?

Anna: sure.

Behind the house the grass was soft and wet, very wet. After four hours of rain and seven hours of sprinkler the grass had probably had enough to drink but as Katy said it’s could’ve just been a really heavy rain.

AND THEN…

We rode home and went to bed.

The End.

Does it really make a difference when we do a little thing?
Does it really make a difference when I don’t tell a lie?
The earth keeps spinning around the sun
Lost in a universe made by the One
What I do, does it make a difference, in the course of things?

Does it make a difference?
Trying to be strong?
Taking a firm foothold against the waves that are crashing in?
Does my not going with the flow but standing fast
Does it make a difference in the course of things?
The world will keep on spinning a dot in the Universe

They tell me that it doesn’t, they answer, they say No
The waves sweep me off my feet, I’ve lost my foot hold.
I can’t do this alone
Why do I defy the waves?
I’m just one person
And quickly being swept away, swept away!

I’m being pushed and tossed being turned around like an autumn leaf caught in the wind
I always thought the leaves were dancing, but now I know:
The were being tossed
Helplessly chaotic
With no way to call for help!
Help me! If there’s anyone who cares help me, I’m lost in the waves!

The waves are thrashing, tossing me back and forth
The water surrounded me it pours over my head
The wave comes under my feet
I’m trying to find a foothold
The waves toss me not in play but in anger.

I called to the Lord and he answered me
Out of the waves I cried and he heard my voice
I found a foothold
Warmth has replaced the cold
Onward. I stand firm against the waves
Move back it makes a difference in this world

Charging forward into the crashing waves.
We are different We won’t be the same
This world is full of evil
It’s a place where friends don’t care
The deny their creator
They pretend they’re in control of all

Were here to make a difference
To witness in the world
The love of God
The Word incarnate
The truth of the trinity
We can do nothing by ourselves, but through God we do all

I saw the leaves and know I know

they are dancing
Dancing for their creator
for  joy
for love
for the hope of a new day.

I stand in the ocean as the waves pass over my head.

So much has happened or it feels like it anyway! I haven’t had time to write on my blog. So here’s an update.

First the National Open. It was amazing! It was like living in a dream because everything happened and it was all amazing. Almost… that’s what made it real life instead of a dream :)

The worst thing that happened at the tournament was on the first day. It was after the last debate round. Paul Adkisson said good bye to Beth and I. I asked him why he was leaving, because there was still another speech round left. Beth said that all the speech rounds were over and then I completely freaked out because I’d only done my DI once that day and I thought I must have missed a round. Then they showed me that the DI pattern was only once that day. But while it lasted it was the absolute worst moment. I felt like I was dead

I wonder if anyone’s actualy done that… skipped their speech, just like that…

There so many best moments that I can’t think of just one. Most moments were best moments. Katy and I both broke for our first times and it was awesome!!!!! I was so happy:) The whole tounament was amazing. When Avery won it was even more amazingness.

So after coming home from the most amazing tounament ever my sister had her birthday party. She’s ten and I’m still in shock

The next day it snowed and that was really fun. The snow makes everything different. It’s just like everything any book has ever describd it. It’s like a blanket. It covers everything ugly and it makes places I’ve known all my life look new. It crunches under your feet and it lands on your toungue and eyelashes. It’s realy cold too! We built a snow fort. We had a snowball fight. We attempted to build a snowman, and we made lots of snow angels all over the yard. It was really fun

It was four inches deep but it doesn’t look like a whole lot because my Dad took those pictures when it first started snowing.

Other than doing lots of school that’s what’s been happening. I covered that in a realy short blog post. I’m impressed. Well until I post agian… God bless you!

                                     ~Anna =)

As I’m getting ready for the National Open, I thought I would post some of my favorite Winnie the Pooh quotes.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
– Winnie the Pooh
Tigger is probably my favorite Winnie the Pooh character because he’s so BOUNCY

Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave.
– Winnie the Pooh

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.
– Winnie the Pooh

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart. I’ll always be with you.
– Winnie the Pooh

Some people care too much, I think it’s called love.
– Winnie the Pooh
I used to believe in forever . . . but forever was too good to be true.
– Winnie the Pooh

People who don’t Think probably don’t have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that’s blown into their heads by mistake.
– Winnie the Pooh

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”
– Winnie the Pooh
Oh I love Winnie the Pooh…

My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
– Winnie the Pooh

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
– Winnie the Pooh

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
– Winnie the Pooh

If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
– Winnie the Pooh

When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.
– Winnie the Pooh

When looking at your two paws, as soon as you have decided which of them is the right one, then you can be sure the other one is the left.
– Winnie the Pooh

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
– Winnie the Pooh

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
– Winnie the Pooh

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
– Winnie the Pooh

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
– Winnie the Pooh
I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit. “No,” said Pooh humbly, “there isn’t. But there was going to be when I began it. It’s just that something happened to it along the way.
– Winnie the Pooh

I LOVE Winnie the Pooh. He is so awesome!

Good luck at the tounament. If you don’t find enjoyment inreading pages of quotes… well good luck to you too!

~Anna

They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.
– Winnie the Pooh

I know this is a little late… but better late than never, right?

ARC performed and was outstanding! Yay ARC!

Paul the Bear

This is from Nathan’s camera… He has amazing skills with catching “the moment.”

     The moisture from our breath gathered on the car windows, enclosing us, so that we couldn’t see the shapes of cars and people outside, only the lights of a police car flashing red… blue… red…blue… It almost looked purple inbetween the red and the blue. The moments seemed to crawl by as I tried to stop myself from falling asleep. A climactic ending to the stress, joy, excitment, nervousness, and hyperness of the past few days at the tournament.

     So now that I have your attention (hopefuly). It was an AWESOME tournament! I actually remembered to bring my camera too, but I didn’t take any pictures… no not one It was a very fun trip up and I got to see Josie who I haven’t seen in a very long time.

       First day of the tounament was awesome, and so was the second All my debate rounds were really fun and I never didn’t have something to say; but sometimes I didn’t have enough time to say it all; but I usually did. They were some of the most fun debate rounds I’ve ever done so that was fun. Impromptu was fine filled I up my time for the first speech, almost filled it up on the second, and the third was two minutes under time, but the third was the only one that I got something other than fifth and below on! Anyway I thought that was weird, but maybe they were just happy that I’d stopped talking and wanted me to know that. All my other speeches went fine. I didn’t break in debate or speech but oh well at least it was a fun tournament Though I would have liked it to be a fun tournament and broken! So I did get a speaker award and I was really surprised. It was the 32nd which is the lowest one you can get That made me laugh.

     ARC did really well! All these awesome people broke and made it to double octafinals, octafinals, quarterfinals, semis, and my awesome brother made it to finals! And Toni came the second day which was so cool! So it was fun and I could repeat those four words in a continuous line for a long time but I’ll save you the trouble. If and when some nice person sends me pictures I’ll post those! =)

So my Mom and I were coming back from the tournament (my brother was spending the night with some friends in Houstan) abd we stopped at a grocery store and then when we were pulling out of the parking lot a car sped up right behind us. It barely touched our bumper and then swerved into a tree at the side of the road. Forgeting we were in Houstan my Mom pulled into the parking lot to get out and help them. The driver pressed on the gass and sped off down the road out of sight with the whole front of the car crushed in. So we decided to just keep going on our way since there didn’t seem much else to do. A few blocks up we came upon the car pulled up at the side of the road, smoking. My mom pulled up a ways in front of it and called the police. The police came and it turned out that they were two drunk drivers. So we spent about two hours waiting for them to be done with their investigation and all. We went to bed at three in the morning and I was completely exhausted the next day. Thinking about it, we came really close to being hit.

So some cool things that have happened recently that I haven’t blogged about:

My violin teacher is letting me borrow her mandolin and I’m so very happy!!!

There is the March for life on Saturday and you should go to it if you can =)

Then there is also a youth group retreat on Saturday!

Miriam gave me a sea star she got in Florida and thinking about it makes me happy… *sigh* 

I’ve been playing a lot of music recently.

I have an HI to write before another tournament next week.

Come to think of it the fact that we have to go to a tournament next week should be a point all by itself.

I’m completly lost at the thought of debate.

I don’t know what to do to prepare for apolegetics except write more cards which I very well may not use.

Here is a brilliant idea for impromptu: write a list of all the books you’ve read recently and then write out all the scenes, incidents, intresting events that happened in them and read it over before you go in to every impromptu room.

I read my really short NaNo novel from this past November and I love it! I think it’s the best story I’ve ever written even though it’s only seven pages long as of yet…

I also did a lot of school this week and I just wrote two essays (rather short ones)

I am finished with my ramblings for the time present!

Have a wonderful week! God bless you!

                           ~Ness

I was awarded! Thank you Katy

The rules:

1. I practiced violin yesterday for a long time