August 2019
John S. Graves, III article about local boys growing up in the forty’s talks about what was life like…simple with values. Why are so many families moving to our region, ultimately it is to fulfill their dreams. We hope that one person who reads Kasia’s article will fill their dreams by seeing what hard work and perseverance accomplishes… Parents, check out why teenagers are in a different time zone, and how to help them understand it is part of growing up. For certain, those who have sent their child off to school will shed a tear reminiscing with Gene Cashman. You had to know that Amber Hester-Kuhen, Blufftons Environmentalist, would tell us some things about those monsters we call no-see-ems, and their cousin the mosquito. Oh, and let’s change our Latitude in Margarettaville. How to grow older without growing up! Do it. Enjoy, let us hear from you, and don’t forget to tell people where you shop and eat, that they should be in The Breeze.
John S. Graves, III article about local boys growing up in the forty’s talks about what was life like…simple with values. Why are so many families moving to our region, ultimately it is to fulfill their dreams. We hope that one person who reads Kasia’s article will fill their dreams by seeing what hard work and perseverance accomplishes… Parents, check out why teenagers are in a different time zone, and how to help them understand it is part of growing up. For certain, those who have sent their child off to school will shed a tear reminiscing with Gene Cashman. You had to know that Amber Hester-Kuhen, Blufftons Environmentalist, would tell us some things about those monsters we call no-see-ems, and their cousin the mosquito. Oh, and let’s change our Latitude in Margarettaville. How to grow older without growing up! Do it.
Enjoy, let us hear from you, and don’t forget to tell people where you shop and eat, that they should be in The Breeze.
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DREAMS COME TRUE<br />
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Who loves to dream? Who would love to live<br />
their dream life? Sometimes we just close<br />
our eyes and imagine our dreams. Dreams<br />
are what motivate people. Anything is<br />
possible, and if you believe, it will come true!<br />
By: Kasia Pawalek<br />
While writing about my life, it seems that I am writing<br />
fiction rather than the true story. What does an elegant<br />
young lady, always smiling and happy, know about life<br />
and its hardships?<br />
Just over 14 years ago I came from a quaint town in<br />
Poland where everyone knew each other. I vividly<br />
remember an event from middle school when one of my<br />
classmates stole a sandwich from my lunch, and because<br />
my grandmother knew his grandmother, he was in a<br />
world of trouble. The following day he was instructed by<br />
his grandma to bring an apology fruit basket which he<br />
offered with a heartfelt apology. I walked to school every<br />
day and often played with other kids after dark since it<br />
was always safe. That life falls under the definition of a<br />
safe-haven. I loved that part of it.<br />
However, my life in Poland was a boring reality in which<br />
going shopping was a predictable event, and normal<br />
life with a career just like everyone else’s was expected,<br />
almost a copy of my parents’ life. It was nothing short<br />
of the definition of being a miserable life for me. I was<br />
trying to please everyone and be a typical good teenage<br />
girl for years, and I could not stand it any longer. I had<br />
a strong desire to break free and be able to travel the<br />
world, to have a career that would be extraordinary and<br />
one in which I would be making a difference. Dreaming<br />
about it every night, this was all I could think about.<br />
My dreams may have attracted the reality because<br />
an opportunity appeared and I moved to the U.S. The<br />
dream was to let life’s adventures begin and let there be<br />
no more boring days.<br />
The journey began by waking up to a harsh reality in the<br />
downtown Detroit surrounded by pathology and crime<br />
scenes only seen in gangster or apocalyptic movies.<br />
Seeing people’s broken dreams, drug addicts, alcoholics,<br />
and abused women and children became the reflection<br />
of my life. However, this would only be the first chapter.
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