1. Catalase
It was 6:30am on a Monday morning in Okinawa, Japan. I was at work taking the children to the breakfast room when my cell phone went off. Normally, it would be my husband telling me that he just dropped off our daughter at preschool and he was on his way to work, but not this morning. The text message was from my mom, and it was hard to understand. The words that could make out were, "Your dad had a stroke and you need to come home ASAP."" At that moment my heart sank.
What did my mom mean? How could I get home? I told my supervisor there was an emergency and I needed to go home. I hurried to my car and tried to compose myself before heading home to call my mom. When I got home and walked in the door, my son said, "What are you doing home. " I told him that I got a text about grandpa and it was serious. He wanted to stay home from school but I told him he needed to go and that everything would be okay. Once he left I called my husband to tell him about the text. He said that he got the same text and the first thing we should do was call home and find out what was going on. My heart was racing a mile a minute and I was scared. At first my mom didn't answer and it took three tries to finally get through. .
When my mom answered her phone I asked her what was going on? She started to tell me but she broke down crying and handed the phone to my brother who was sitting next to her. He said that my dad had a stroke and that he wasn't doing so well. I asked him what did he meant. He said "the doctors found fluid around his heart, cancer in his body and he has blood clots. It doesn't look good at all. " I could not believe what I was hearing. .
My dad was always in good health and now he was in the intensive care unit fighting for his life. I hung up the phone with my brother and started to cry. I called my husband back and said that we need to fly home ASAP because my dad was in the intensive care unit fighting for his life and the doctors were saying does not look good.
What if for once your fear fade away, what if you live in peace not anything bothering you inside, what if, the prime desire in my heart. ... I crave to tell my fear to someone, for how long have I concealed this in my heart, its time for it to let loose emotions to be free, to rest in peace, to be able to breathe serenely for once not worrying if something is haunting me inside. ... While dad and I were occupied with our findings we purely lost control over ourselves when we realized my friend was missing. ... My dad held me even more tightly I could feel the moisture on his long eyelids. .....
It was at that time when my dad taught me my first life lesson. ... Strength was not the only lesson I learned from my dad. ... I had to be strong and get to my dad's house. ... However, my dad had a peaceful death. ... I felt peace that he was finally resting after living to be almost 99 years old. ...
This is why I believe that it is important for police officers to treat their line of work as a privilege, not as a job because so many people are relying on you and put their trust in you to do what's right to keep the peace. ... I find it hard to believe that something such as this instance of police corruption only involved two people so I called my dad and asked him if he knew anything about it or these two detectives. My dad told me that Walter Robinson was the original bad apple and that the rest of the force knew it. ... My dad also told me that if he had to guess, he would specu...
It was the only holiday that we all got to be together on because all the rest of the holidays were spent with our respective in-laws. ... My dad says that Grandma's story is just a little exaggerated, but nonetheless we don't want to jinx ourselves. ... Technically my dad, and his two brothers own it, but I can't imagine the house ever leaving our family. ... Some tribes have rain ceremonies, battle ceremonies, crop ceremonies, and other ceremonies that ensure peace and happiness for the ensuing year. ... It just so happens that Native Americans have realized the joy and import...
Moms were losing sons, sisters were losing brothers, and children were losing dads. ... "Many Americans felt cheated and betrayed by Johnson because they had considered him as a peace candidate in 1964"(Thomas and Vistica 24 ). ... I think the middle class people in American society were effected the most, because it was usually them that had to mourn over the loss of their dad, brother, or son. ... The rest of the American people were neither. ...
Moreover, the US Media and many other media in the non-Muslim countries are consistently showing the negative aspects about Muslims and their religion without educating the rest of the world of the faithful community who would give anything to stop their fellow extremists and to restore peace and harmony. ... Among them, we may have dads or moms who may probably have emergencies or important occupations to do. ... Furthermore, many Muslim women complain that they have been attacked, insulted, and had their headscarves ripped off despite that they are just practicing their religion in peace. ...
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbor-strain steel If ever disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. ... (pg 1074: 64-66) but Friar stops her and gives her a potion so that she will appear dead and be put in her family tomb where shell wake up to Romeo and they can go away together without her having to marry Paris or telling her dad that shes married to his enemies son. ... Romeo goes back to Verona and to where Juliet rests and finds Paris there. ...
People achieve different kinds of success, and even naturally, people are created differently, with some being talented, beautiful, and smart while the rest of the population is ordinary. ... She would even enlist other girls to pick up on Janie, and taunt her about her dad. ... She had found her internal peace and she was feeling good about her life. ... In her many experiences, she had acquired inner peace that helped her to ignore all the criticism against her....