A list of interesting facts

A list of interesting facts about turtles

Turtles are reptiles

According to the internet and apparently science 

turtles have been on the earth from more than 

200 million years

It is also said that the earliest turtles had teeth 

Like one day the world stopped fighting them

So in turn they forgot what it felt like to fight back

Turtles spend most of their lives in water

They are adapted for aquatic life with webbed feet or flippers

Fresh water turtles leave the water every once in a while 

to sunbathe

sea turtles only leave to lay eggs

turtles lay eggs

A turtle’s shell develops from its ribs

And is an adaptation to protect against predators

It’s shell is made up of 60 bones 

that are covered by plates

which ironically enough are made of 

the same thing as our fingernails

like instead of learning how to fight 

they just built up the layers around their heart instead

but still all these adaptations earned it a spot 

to live on almost every continent

humans are not turtles

according to science we may have adapted to have less hair

and therefore have a harder time staying warm

we may have adapted to be smarter

but according to scriptures we don’t live for as long as we used to

still against all odds 

here we are

nothing but a few bones between our hearts 

and our predators

nothing but a few hairs

between our skin

and the cold winter air

nothing but love 

between our souls

 and heartbreak

and call me crazy but I’ve never heard 

of a turtle that died from heartbreak

But I obviously don’t know much about turtles

What I do know 

Is how fragile the human existence has become

Instead of fighting wars

We tend to be fighting trends

Or stereotypes

Or statistics

Instead of protecting

We tend to be fighting just to stay alive

Because we are the only species to develop suicide

And I’ve started to notice not a lot of our adaptations 

Are real adaptations

According to the internet an adaptation is 

a change or the process of change by which 

an organism or species becomes

 better suited to its environment.

Its almost as if we were adapted to have weaker ribs 

And an inclination toward heartbreak

So maybe we aren’t adapting

Maybe this is us circling the drain

I mean I know we are no turtles

But don’t you think we could try a little more defense 

And a little less offence

By offence I mean 

offensive

I mean Gkys jokes

I mean a lack of common decency

I mean a lack of caring

What happened to the generation that cared

And couldn’t we be that

Couldn’t we stop for one minute

And think 

Before we act

I guess i'm just trying to say

Sometimes I get pretty tired of being human

Aug 3rd

I'm sorry this isn't a poem

I just got my mission call to serve in the Nagoya Japan mission on August 3rd
I'm so excited to return to Japan but that means we have less than two months of me blogging.
I really love you guys and have loved reading your posts and receiving comments. I will probably post all the excess poems I didn't have time to type so you may get a lot from me. Or I may be super busy preparing and have totally lied to you. But either way I love you guys! And I will have plenty to post after my 18 month hiatus

Quilting and other forms of heartbreak

Let me tell you something about my parents

Let me tell you something about divorced parents

Let me tell you                    

About how no house is really home anymore

And when you hear yourself say

I’m going home

You have to ask yourself

If you will ever stop driving

Let me tell you

About how loving your parents doesn’t always mean

Together or at the same time

Or even in the same way

Let me tell you

About how going home doesn’t always mean the same place

And sometimes you say it

As you are both headed to different buildings

And how your heart aches

How you wish it wasn’t that way

How it feels like you are currently tied together

And with each step the tugging feeling gets worse

And how that

Makes you cherish your relationship that much more

Let me tell you the difference

Between having loving parents

And having loving parents

Because my parents are so solely devoted to me

So devoted to the time I spend with them

So devoted to the patch work quilt family

They are still trying to hold together

And on some days it may feel like my heart is being ripped in half

But on other days

It feels more like there is more than one heart

Beating in my chest

And those are the good days

I have never been so loved by total strangers

I believe you call them

Step parents

And step siblings

But let me tell you

With all the pain of a divorce

All the disagreements

All the terrible days

All the off days

All the bad days

I still cannot look all of you in the eyes and say

I have it worse off than you

Because I wasn’t in foster care

Torn from one place to the next

I wasn’t unloved

I wasn’t abused

I wasn’t forgotten

I have so many siblings now I don’t even dare

To try and count them

But I know them all by name

I know them all by heart

I know them all

And they know me

Let me tell you something about being a child of divorced parents

I will always be better at resolving issues

I will never be greedy

In fact I will never ask for anything

Because who would I ask

You ask your mom

She says to ask your dad

So You do

And He says to ask your mom

But you don’t know how to tell them

That you don’t really need it

You never really needed it

You just need to feel loved

So can we all just forget I asked

Slowly your forget how to ask

You forget that anything other than

Oxygen and love is needed

Let me tell you something about growing up around divorce

Your life is about learning to love

About how to make the perfect quilt

About how to thread a needle with red thread

And how to make sure you stitch all the pieces of fabric together just right