Summer

mmm. Easy mac, freshly baked naan, black and white cookies, chocolate chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, garlic and rice stuffed bell peppers.

culinary dream.

qwerty?

A Prayer. A letter.

Dear God,

Help me calm down. I need you to help me get a hold of myself this week. I'm scared, stressed and nervous (not that I'm complaining. I'm sure you feel much worse sometimes)., and I could really use your shoulder to lean on (or for you to carry me through? How's your back feeling this week?) Thanks for putting people in my life to help relax me, even when I can't relax myself. Also, thanks for giving me such great teachers - I hope I'm learning as much as you think I should be. I'm trying! I was a little disappointed today when I heard the test will be performed while I'm in switzerland - especially after putting on all those strain gages - but it'll probably or the best.

Love,

Kim

"No warrior will ever do a darker deed."

" ' Tell me, Volker my friend, will you stand by me if Kriemhild's men attack me? Let me hear your answer, by the love you bear me, and I shall be deeply bound to you till the end of my days.'

'You can count on my aid for sure,' replied the Minstrel, 'even if I were to see the

King making for us with all his warriors. Fear shall not make me desert you by yielding so much as one foot as long as I remain alive!' "

" How often men abandon

their plans from fear

when one friend stands by another

in the loyal way he ought,

so that if they are men of sense

their enemies take no action!

Widespread harm can be prevented by the use of good sense."