 from a very dark place, a place where the sun didn’t shine and there was very little hope to cling to, it came from a time of isolation, sadness and loneliness. A time where I didn’t want to live.
Somehow though, the poem came to me one night, it was a like suddenly seeing the lighthouse I had been looking for, but just could not see through the fog. The light however brief, shone into my mind and made me feel hope, that perhaps there was a future where I could be happy.
So there it was, my lighthouse, me a ship in the dark, uncertain sea of PND, where life could be gone in a moment. A light to show me how to reach my destination, one I didn’t know what it held. When I began PND and Me, it was simply sharing my poem, I didn’t expect it to lead onto bigger, brighter, life changing things.
When I was going through PND, I had no lighthouse, I had nothing to cling onto, no hope, no “solution”. I simply couldn’t see how life would ever be any different, this suffering I felt was endless and dark, so bloody dark.
I was sailing my ship in the dark, I knew land was around me, that there were people who cared about me, but I couldn’t see any of it. I truly felt alone. Some days I would just bob around on the sea of PND, not moving, just existing. Other days I would be crashing violently into anything I came into contact with, mostly my own mind. I had no sense of where I was or for that matter who the bloody hell I was now. How could I ever reach the shore safely without someone, or something to guide me?
My poor ship was battered, broken, but still floating. Something deep within me, found a way to fill the holes and fix my ship, just enough to keep afloat, but I needed more than that. I needed a way that would help me get out of port and into the big wide world. I needed to get to the sea, maybe that way I could find a way to live and no longer just exist.
I have slowly fixed up my ship, replaced the bits that were worn out and no longer served a purpose. I gave my ship a new lease of life one where I knew I had the power within me to steer through even the toughest of storms that came my way and tried to pull me under.
When I found that lighthouse, I found my way again. I want to be the lighthouse I didn’t have for so long, for others who need a little help finding theirs.
You might not be able to see your lighthouse yet, but please keep looking for it because one day, you will and you will learn ways to fix your ship, just like I have.Four University of Nebraska-Lincoln students on Thursday beseeched the NU Board of Regents to divest from fossil fuels.
The students said science gives clear evidence of the destruction wreaked by climate change. The NU system can contribute to the solution by ceasing to invest money in fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas, they said.
The topic of man-made climate change is just one more hot-button subject in a nation that is split on many issues. Just Wednesday night, Vice President Mike Pence said climate change is real, but he declined to attribute any of it to human-caused activities.
Kathryn Woerner, a student from Plattsmouth, Nebraska, told the regents that “the people in this room aren’t doing anything” about the climate change crisis. Woerner said the NU system has $91.3 million invested in fossil fuels.
Students at many universities have asked their leaders to stop investing in fossil fuels. Creighton University students made the request during the last school year. The Rev. Daniel Hendrickson, Creighton’s president, said the university would reduce its investments in fossil fuel from 8.9% to 5.7%.
Doane University, the University of California system, Georgetown and Stanford are among institutions that have divested or said they plan to divest from fossil fuels.
Woerner told the regents that the four UNL students “came here asking and wanting to work with you” to divest.
Brittni McGuire, a student from Omaha, asked the regents to freeze fossil fuel investments now, divest fully by 2025, and make the institution’s divestment information public.
McGuire said she could cite statistics about fires in the Western U.S. and other calamities, but “you already understand the science and severity” of climate change.
She said there are students and faculty members throughout the NU system who want something done.
“This is a movement,” she said.
» NU President Ted Carter said Nebraska Promise, a new program that provides free tuition to students from families that earn less than $60,000 a year, has resulted in big gains in enrollment and revenue for the university system. The system is made up of institutions in Omaha, Lincoln, Kearney and Curtis.
» The regents gave campus leaders authority to reduce student fees in a two-year trial program. The rationale, in part, is that the coronavirus has led to the cancellation of some campus events that student fees support. The regents will review this trial effort each of the next couple of years.
Vice President Mike Pence arrives at Eppley Airfield in Omaha on Thursday, October 01, 2020. The vice president spoke at PVS Structures, a metal fabricator, in Carter Lake, Iowa as part of a Make America Great Again! campaign event.
UNL's dance program, targeted for elimination in budget cuts, will carry on after receiving commitments of new financial support, Chancellor Ronnie Green said.
Custodians and janitors are more visible than ever in this era of COVID-19, including those at UNL and other college campuses.
It's the first quarantine on the campus since early September.
Monolith Materials announced it won't sell the hydrogen it produces as a byproduct of its carbon black manufacturing plant. But it will still go to a local use.
Nebraska and Iowa are among the states that have projects getting grants.
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-134 ft
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- Riding areaNickerson State Park
Brewster, Massachusetts
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- Altitude change-25 ft
- Altitude min37 ft
- Altitude start118 ft
- Altitude end93 ft
- Grade-0.434%
- Grade max-19.41%
- Grade min27.867%
- Distance climb2,069 ft
- Distance down2,062 ft
- Distance flat1,639 ft
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Open trail in mobile appher beloved “Cuddle Cat” abandoned forlornly on her pillow.
The photo was released yesterday in the wake of Portugal’s cops scrapping a 15-month hunt for the holiday tot, whose anguished mum Kate, 40, was seen clutching the toy.
Other photos show the interior of Kate and Gerry McCann’s holiday apartment just hours after their anguish at finding daughter Maddie had vanished.
The snaps, taken by cops and now published for the first time, were among almost 30,000 pages of police evidence released yesterday.
The dossier also contained a photocopy of missing Maddie’s passport — and it can be seen that, by a grim coincidence, it expired yesterday.
In one shot of Maddie’s bed, her beloved soft toy Cuddle Cat rests on her pillow and the duvet is pulled back.
The cot occupied by her baby twin sister and brother Amelie and Sean now lies empty and the window is closed.
Another picture shows Kate and Gerry’s bedroom, with two single beds pushed together.
There are photos of a table, chairs and TV in the lounge.
Cops claimed this room contained the “smell of death” and traces of Maddie’s blood — allegations scientists found completely unfounded.
A view through a French window looks on to the family’s verandah in the Portuguese Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.
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