Gentle Giant

How cool is this Tae Kwon Do video of our girl smashing through a board like it is a pretzel stick? After recently attaining the rank of fifth geup (green belt with a blue stripe), D has now hit the big time...the ADVANCED class.



But don't get the wrong idea and start thinking she's all about busting heads...She also won runner up in a poetry contest sponsored by the county intermediate school district in honor of the Dalai Lama's visit to Ann Arbor. The following poem, written last year in second grade, is one of only ten poems that was bound into a book presented to Mr. Lama himself. She will be reading this poem at Borders at a special poetry reading of all of the winners at a date to be announced.

I'm As Bright

I'm as bright as the sun.
I'm as bright as summer.
I'm as bright as the whole world with sharing, peace,
kindness, goodness.
There is no bad stuff happening.
The world brings peace and stays peace for as long as
everybody and the people that are going to come.
Make peace for yourself and other people and the
people that aren't here yet, but they're going to
come.