Tallyn's Bard

Most girls were interested in horses, horse crazy, I was music crazy.
  When I was six years old I went to a community Christmas concert, and at the concert there was a mom and her two daughters, six and three, playing harp. She told of how when she was ten she had decided that she wanted to play harp, her family was poor and and she had saved up her pennies and dimes for a harp. Her Dad had found out about it and they had prayed about it a few years later and she had  been able to get a harp and harp lessons. She’s been playing harps ever since. She also told about her daughters harps. She had wanted to teach them harp but didn’t have the money to buy harps at that time. She prayed about it and the next week a lady she hardly knew stopped by her house and gave her two small harps the perfect size, saying that she played harp and she might have a use for the little harps.
How amazing is that?
 Well I was an imagineitive little kid and i wanted to play harp.
I read a story of a boy from the middle ages who played harp and I only wanted to play more.

My mom told me that when I could play an instrument, read music, and practice without being told I could get a harp.
  My mom taught me some piano on a little electric keyboard that we owned. When I was eight she taught me to read music and play the recorder. I still remember when Alex and I both learned to play hot cross buns on the recorder, my mom made hot cross buns for us with icing on top and they were really yummy =D
     That same year we started going to a homeschool coop one of the classes there was flute. I started taking flute lessons, and I borrowed a flute from my teacher there, who generously lent it to me. The Christmas when I was nine my parents bought me my own flute. I was so excited it was by far my favorite Christmas present that year. At that time we stopped going to coop and I was in tears because I wouldn’t be able to take flute anymore. My mom called my teacher and asked if there was some way that I could still take lessons. So my teacher agreed to come out to my house, give me a flute lesson in exchange for a loaf of bread, there’s not many teachers who would do that, I can tell you =)
    The summer I was ten I picked up my brother’s violin. He had been taking vioin at the same coop that I’d been taking flute at.  At the end of the year they had a recital and I had heard three girls playing an arrangment of “Holy, Holy, HOly” on three violins. I was enchanted.

     I decided I was going to learn violin. I learned all my notes and how to hold the bow. Soon I was playing simple hymns, like “Holy, Holy, Holy”  and “A mighty fortress is our God” accompianied by my Mom on the piano.

Six: decided to play harp
Six and seven and eight: mom taugth me to play piano and recorder and read music
Seven or eight: started flute

nine: Andrew was born, got piano, got my own flute flute recital story
ten: stopped going to coop started taking flute lessons at home heard the holy holy holy at a recital and decided to learn violin that summer learned violin that July I 
        started lessons with Alex.

eleven: stopped playing flute, violin teacher moved started lessons with Mrs. Burks (dad’s raise and how we couldn’t have done it other wise)
Second half of eleven: Mrs. Fletcher!!! I hear about an orchestra but its an hour away and mom doesn’t want to drive with the new baby katherine
twelve: started writing music, started writing music for plays as well. Mrs. Fletcher starts an orchestra

Our second concert I get the solo.
thirteen: Mom and I go to a UT harp concert, I get Tallyn in Dec. Took lessons until April
Fourteen: and I start this blog! I didn’t have harp lessons all summer, started again in November till May

Fifteen: My harp teacher gets maried :’( I want to take piano over the summer, one lesson but doesn’t work out. Tallyn breaks all his strings and I can’t figure out how to put them back on! Carol’s amazing story. Meeting Wynn. Hannah comes and helps me string Tallyn, Sending Tallyn home with her.
Now… =D

things I should write about:
kombudcha
Sully Sullenburger
Orthodoxy
camp pheonix

photo shoot
writing music
NaNo
school
speech

  This is the best picture I’ve ever taken with my webcam.
It’s not very good as you might have noticed =)

My brother is gone because he’s going to  visit a college and he took the camera so that’s why I was playing around with the web cam.

Recently:

I have been enjoying the cold weather.
Trying to think up a NaNO novel.
Posting on my blog.
Trying to write speeches and failing
writing apolegetics cards.
What I need to do:

I need to do some debate research
practice violin
Exiting things that have happened:

I have more apolegetics cards than Alex =)
I ate chocolate trufels yesterday

okay that’s all for now
     

           ~Ness

When I was little and I cut my finger I stuck it in my mouth because it made it feel better. When I got my braces on, they scratched the inside of my cheek but it always healed pretty quickly compared to if I scratched my finger with my braces.
     In the Gospel of John there is the story of Jesus healing a blind man:

“I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
 As long as I an in the world, I am the light of the world.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made a clay of the spittle and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam. He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
The neighbors therefore, and they which  before had seen him that he was blind said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

Some said, This is he: others [said]. he is like him: [but] he said, I am [he].
Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes , and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash : and I went and washed, and I received sight” John 9:1:18

I heard this Bible story in church when I was about eight and it dawned on me that maybe spit did heal and Jesus used it so obviously he knew that it healed.

Between this Bible story and my own personal experiInce I always thought that saliva had some sort of healing properties. So the other day I was excited to find an article about how saliva can speed the healing of wounds and some recent studies they did on it. Very interesting article, especially because it confirms my own thoughts. That’s always nice. =D

“Rain Rain go away come again another day…”

For probably the first time in my life I understand how someone could feel this. Not that I do feel that way but I understand how it could be felt It’s been raining for…. forever. Not quite. I don’t really want it to go away but if it was like this all the rest of this fall and winter I probably would. Rain is great in the summer when you can play in it but now it’s SO cold!

What else besides rain? I’ve been memorizing a speech for an upcoming practice tournament, as well as going over my cases. I’m rather excited =) I need to practice more impromptu and apolegetics speeches.

On Sunday I had a violin recital. Then we had orchestra rehearsal which was fun.

Saturday our Youth group had a big angle ball game, which was fun =)  Angle ball is a sport that is sort of like ultimate frisbee except with a volleyball. Instead a goal there are posts with basketballs on top that you have to knock off.

Friday I had a piano lesson and then speech and debate. I slept over a friend’s house (hi a friend!!) and it was so much fun! She helped me with my debate cases which needed help

So there is my weekend now that I have fullfilled my duty to my blog I will commence with my week =)

 ~Nessy Wessy

Here are the lyrics for the song that always comes on when you get on my blog I’ll post for real sometime…

When the last eagle flies
Over the last crumbling mountains.
And the last lion roars
At the last dusty fountain.
In the shadow of the forest,

Though she may be old and worn,
They will stare unbelieving
At the last unicorn.

When the first breath of winter
Through the flowers is icing,

And you look to the north,
And a pale moon is rising.

And it seems like all is dying,
And would leave the world to mourn,
In the distance, hear the laughter

Of the last unicorn.

I’m alive!
I’m alive!

When the last moon is cast
Over the last star of morning.

And the future has past,
Without even a last desperate warning.
Then looking to the sky where
Through the clouds, a path is formed
You can see her
How she sparkles!

It’s the last unicorn!

I’m alive!
I’m alive!

I’m alive!
I’m alive!

I’m alive!
I’m alive!

~Loreena Mckeintt

Wow! need I say more?

 This next one makes me want to cry thinking of my own violin skills… *cries* =D

Check out these other pieces played by Benjamin as well:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDLgpskt578   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cvfu-K0loc

~Ness

Wow, they did an amazing job!
Good job! =D

~Ness

   ‘Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws. &hand; When applied to any particular department of knowledge, philosophy denotes the general laws or principles under which all the subordinate phenomena or facts relating to that subject are comprehended. Thus philosophy, when applied to God and the divine government, is called theology; when applied to material objects, it is called physics; when it treats of man, it is called anthropology and psychology, with which are connected logic and ethics; when it treats of the necessary conceptions and relations by which philosophy is possible, it is called metaphysics. &hand; Philosophy has been defined: tionscience of things divine and human, and the causes in which they are contained;’

  Avecianna a Muslim scholar said:
      “Human intellect at birth is rather like a tabula rasa, a pure potentiality that is actualized through education and that knowledge is attained through “empirical familiarity with objects in this world from which one abstracts universal concepts”

     Later on this idea was further deepened by Ibn Tufail a 12 century philosopher who was the first man to write a philosophical novel. In this novel he writes the story of a boy living alone, he shows how the boy’s mind forms from experiences from a tabula rasa to that of an adult, in complete isolation from society on a desert island, through experience alone.

    On the other hand Innatism says that an innate idea is a concept or knowledge which is universal to all humanity. Rene Descart thought that a knowledge of God is innate in everyone. Empiricists argued that we could only find out about God through reason.
Some examples of innate ideas are:
avoindance of harms (such as fear of falling of a cliff)
ethical truths

   Here’s a poem. I have been to busy to post anything “real” so here’s something to read while I try to find time to write about me life!

PS I made a quiz about me please go take it! Well if you feel like it…

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