“You don’t know what you’ve got ’til its gone” by Robyn Joy Christopher
[ESSAY REMOVED by request of the author, June 2022]
“Universal Movement For The Heart” by Kayla Bryant
My heart, pounding like a million drums in a parade, twists my stomach in anticipation. Nothing but silence all around as the lights go down and nothing else at this very moment is more important than going out on stage and giving it your all. Minutes later the sound...
“Winning The Peace” by Faye Walker
We do not live in a perfect world. Instead, all of humanity inhabits a place permeated by terror, violence, hostility, enmity, malignancy, and more. Everyone acknowledges the fact that there are fundamental problems with life on the Earth, but no one is trying to fix...
“Living Life As A Question” by Kody Kinzie
In my life, there has always been a central way of thought that directs and influences the way I act and the choices I make. That way of thought reflects my love of the empirical and investigative outlook provided by science. Though the majority of life transcends...
“Can I change the world?” by Fawn Ledesma
There have been times in my life when I have felt very strongly about changing something to make the world a better place. Yet, it is something a young person such as myself has not spent much time trying to figure out how or what I might do to change it. Why is this?...
“More Than Just Words” by Aleia Fletcher
Follow your pencil in it's journey of twist and turns, carving words into crisp, pure white paper that concludes into a beautiful piece of art using the English language. For many writers, such as myself, this is the essence of writing, these words gliding into...
“My Second Home” by Erin M. Terrall
I can still remember that first feeling. As I sat there, in a room where about a dozen other preteen kids, all, like me, dressed in costumes. I was dressed as an elephant, with a gray sweatshirt and sweatpants, as well as a hat with a trunk on it. We were the Willow...
“Emergence” by Robin Cooper
With a loud, dry crack, the doors of the long abandoned shelter were shattered open. Many decades had passed since any instance of light had been released into this realm. This space, my space, was now being invaded. Am I to be moved again? Am I to be torn away from...
“Universality of Wisdom: Sharing Ideas to Dispossess Negativity” by Steven S. Becraft
I wasn't part of a vast crowd of smiling automatons. I can safely say that without clouded perception. When I hear that the nation is at war, I feel the weight and resonance of sadness: when I see visible poverty while stepping 10 miles out of my own town, yet see...
“Fresh Start” by Sarah Cate
Last year I was getting ready to take my SAT II's in composition when I asked a friend what type of essay I would have to write. She told me that the prompts were really easy; last year she had gotten the topic: "How has the world become a better place in the last 20...
“Life in Motion” by Renata Jarvi
The music begins, unfurling on the night air. It hits me, awakening my feet, rushing up my legs, out to my fingers and the very top of my head. My neck lengthens, my shoulders pulling back as I cast a glittering smile across the audience like a net to reel them in....
“The Theater” by Alexandra Amarotico
While I sit here taking into consideration my many pastimes and interests, there is one that rises above the rest, one extra ordinary fixation that I treasure and love above all the others. It is the one thing that I always adore even through the difficult and...
“Behold and Belong” by Connor Sexton
Behold a flower and sense it, every pore receiving undeniable signals, and breathe some kind of fresher air far removed from the noise of the city and the light of development - see the folding of the universe into a little pedal. Sit high upon an ancient earthen...
“Writing: My Passion and My Way of Questioning the World” by Jonathan Weighter
Writing. Probably the most important accomplishment that humans have ever achieved. From great poets like Robert Frost, to amazing novel writers such as Margaret Mitchell or John Steinbeck, no group of people has affected the sculpture of our planet the way that...
“Computers: The Key to the Future” by Galen O’Neill
If someone were to ask me what I am most passionate about, I would probably jump into some kind of rant about how great computers are, and how much I enjoy every aspect of them. Don't get me wrong, I do attempt to be modest; however I find it difficult at times to...
“Pictured Portraits of a Living Mirror” by Jessie Jones
I am passionate about this Earth, for the fire, the water, the air, and the ultimate relationship we can experience between all of these things. When I enter the supreme retreat beyond civilization by giving my life to the mountains, I can hear the ancient being...
“Social Conditioning and Contemporary American Culture” by Sean Gibbons
London, the year is a.f. 632 . Your life consists of three things, sex, drugs and violence. Although an inconceivable thought, it is not far from our present culture. In 1932, Aldous Huxley finished a novel that can now be seen as a social foreshadowing that...