Photo Essay

Out of all the pictures, this one spoke to me the most. The caption read "U.S, Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds a child after she was separated from her family during a firefight,". To me this was very powerful and spoke volumes. I have no idea what it feels like to be a mother, but I would like to think that if something ever happened to my child, that I would feel better if every human was like this man, and took care of my child when I couldn't. I do know that if anything ever happened to my niece and someone did this to her, and made sure she was safe so that she could come home to my family, I would be eternally thankful to that person.
I think we often times forget that people are good. We get caught up in all the bad people in the world that do bad things, that we forget that the world and people can be good. One of my favorite quotes is "We are all just walking each other home at night". I think this picture has a lot to do with that quote, i think things like this go hand in hand. I like to live my life by this quote because it basically means "everyone needs to look out for each other" and I love that because I would want people to look out for me if I was ever in need. It is nice to know that people care and that you are being watched over.

Food Food Food

To say that food is my life would be a large understatement. My father is a chef, my grandmother a baker, my brother a pastry chef, and my mother a food critic. It is kind of in blood.
I love food, and not just eating it. I love cooking it, baking it, preparing it. I think the "trend" these days is to brag about how much you looove food and how much food you can eat. But do you really love food? I mean love it, everything about it. Do you love the way it smells, the way it prepares? Do you love cooking it and learning new recipes? I do.
I think I love to cook because it really brings my family together and it is also a stress reliever for me. I think it is calming, it is a self act. It is a way to show affection and emotion. You can truly show so many emotions through cooking, or even just one dish.
Food is one of the simple pleasures in life. It brings people together, and it brings happiness, at least to me. I think about my next meal all the time. I probably get TOO excited to eat at times. I will try any food at least one time in my life, and if I don't like it, then that's fine because at least I tried something new. I was never that kid growing up that my parents had to bribe me to try something new, I was happy to do it.