As you have probably noticed from my lack of recent posts, I am having doodle block.  I have no clue what to draw, so I have decided to ask you guys.  If you want to, leave a comment of an idea that you would like me to doodle.  After a few ideas have been posted, I will choose my favorite and doodle it.  Good luck!

This new avatar of mine was made at www.tektek.org.  I personally think that it looks quite a bit like me, and I really like it.  It doesn’t really show much about me besides how I look though.  I think that I might be able to get something better if I tried, but if you all think that this one is good, than it is a keeper.  So far, I have been told that the hair is a bit to dark.  What else?  (Don’t mention how it doesn’t have a nose, please)

In school, we have been reading The Giver.  In the book, Jonas lives in a community where everything is the same.  There is no color.  Everything looks almost exactly the same.  This greatly benefits the community Jonas lives in because there is nothing to make fun of or to stare at.  There is no pain, except for maybe stabbing a toe.  That means no war, guns, or anything of the sort.  Everyone is perfectly happy living in their clueless world, but one person is not.  That one person, known as the Receiver of Memory has the job to contain all of the memories that everyone else does not have.  He has to remember war, hate, and pain, although he also remembers happiness that the community does not get, like color, music, and grandparents.  The community thrusts all of what they don’t want into one person.  They keep their peaceful society, with one martyr sitting all alone and feeling sickness.  Is it okay to make someone else suffer for your happiness?

Today is Veteran’s Day.  I went to www.wordle.net and made this little picture.  It tells you everything I think of when I hear the words “Veteran’s Day.”  Remember, not every picture needs to say 1,000 words.  Thank you veterans!

Staple Trees are very rare trees that only grow in the tropics.  They are about half a foot tall when fully grown.  Every year, each tree grows ten staples.  Those ten staples then fall off in the fall to be collected by the staple gatherers.  Then the staples are shipped here to be sold.

The reason staples are so expensive is because of all of this.  Don’t let anyone try to tell you that staples are mass produced in factories, because they are wrong.  That idea is just unnatural!  It would be like saying that you can eat an apple seed without having a tree grow inside of you.  Anyway, this post and doodle were inspired by my Algebra teacher.

StapleTree