COVID Christmas

I was prepared to write up my usual recap of activities, until Tyson showed us one of his school assignments – a “Mini Monologue”. I decided it would be better to just share that instead:

Need to be inspired?

Hi, I’m Tyson. If you’re here, you want to be inspired. Well, you can’t just be inspired. It takes feelings, confidence, and love. Do you have those? If not, then be the best you, you can be. There is never a good reason to give up, not even if you are trying to do the impossible. After all, I’m possible. Have you tried, tried and tried again? Keep going, don’t give up. Push yourself more, harder, and maybe you’ll achieve your dreams.

If you’re discouraged, find the thing that’s doing that. Block it, and keep going, moving, running. Reach the end of your mini marathon. Finish the climb to the top of mount imagination. Explore the caves of your mind, and make it out alive. But not the breathing, living kind of alive. Alive as in excited and exhilarated. Don’t be the ordinary, be the extraordinary.

Are you making a book and you have “writer’s block?” Then read your story thus far and see what your character would do next. Are you trying to invent “the next best thing?” Then revise your blueprints, go through each and every equation, then spot and fix your mistakes. If that doesn’t work, then talk to someone, you’re never in something alone, even if it may seem that way. Your friends and family will always be right there with you.

I encourage you to remember what I have told you today, and don’t just know it and then stuff it back into your mind, remember it for the rest of your life, tell people, motivate and encourage them. I’m Tyson Cook, and you are?

Enjoy the holiday photos