This Page © 2004 Connelly Communications, LLC, PO Box 592 Hampton, NH 03843- Contributed items and logos are © and ™ their respective owners Unauthorized reproduction 12 of this page or its contents for republication in whole or in part is strictly prohibited • For permission, call (603) 926-4557 • AN-Mark 9A-EVEN- Rev 12-16-2004 PAGE 12A | ATLANTIC NEWS | MARCH 24, 2006 | VOL 31, NO 11 ATLANTICNEWS.COM . Play prepares a child’s TALON VIEWS mind for life Learning how to live in the moment BY KATIE CORCORAN a goal or decreasing my nor- grass on the other side, if look back on past experiences Open 7 Days (603) 772-4923 TALON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF mal day to day activities. I you know what I mean. I live and, instead of complaining 107 Water Street, Downtown Exeter, NH SPECIAL TO 16 VOICES basically just choose that reso- today waiting for tomorrow about events that happened, I As the tradition has stood lution to rid myself of failing and tomorrow waiting for will look back and appreciate COPYING at the beginning of each New or not living up to my word. next week and next week the memories created. Year, people have been and So my dilemma was this: waiting for vacation and so So who’s to say this whole Copying to 36” • Laminating to 24” • Canon® 4000 Color Laser Copies What would be a plausible on. But what I realized after “living in the moment” reso- Fax Service • Binding/Padding/Folding • Resumes are still faced with the chal- Business Cards • Rubber Stamps • Carbonless Forms lenge to decide what their resolution for me to acquire talking to my dad is how can lution will really alter my Printed Envelopes • Engraved • Plastic Name Pins/Door Signs, etc. New Year’s resolution will be. this year that would be unlike I be having fun on the side of experiences? I may just stay Posters from your originals to 18”x24” or 18”x48” Though oftentimes these any other years? reality if I am seeking happi- living the way I normally do “Oversized” Reductions and Enlargements of Blueprints, Etc. resolutions are broken in a A few days before that, I ness from the green grass on whether or not I can entirely matter of weeks, days or even had been talking to my dad the other side all the time? control it. There is no real Top Copy seconds, it is enjoyable to about school and friends and So here’s where my reso- way, however, of measuring have a goal set for yourself for it evolved into a more com- lution comes into play. I want how this resolution will or 65 Portsmouth Ave., Exeter, NH 03833 • Fax 778-1530 more than a day or two. plex conversation than I had to learn how to live in the will not be achieved. I mean, I 778-2648 In the past, deciding a res- not entirely planned on hav- moment. Not all the time but certainly don’t get a life report olution for myself took a mat- ing. I began talking to him at least the majority of the card or anything, so I guess ter of seconds and almost no about my life in general and time. I want to make the best the only way I can measure thought process whatsoever how I feel about the way I of every situation I am in this new concept properly is was required for me to spit live. The conclusion was sim- because then I will be able to asking myself, come June, out a resolution. The classic ple: I live my life in the past or look back on it and say “wow whether or not my last year “get good grades” goal in the future, but never in the I had a good day” or “this was filled with regret or seemed unoriginal for this now. I don’t completely know was a fun week.” This new excitement. year because the second part how others choose to live capability of living in the now Hopefully, the outcome of of my year will be spent ago- their lives, but for me I am will ultimately help me in the my resolution will be the lat- nizing over my last few always worrying about the end because I will be able to ter. Cyan homework assignments and past and helplessly wishing it essays that I won’t really need was the future. Senior year has defined Lessons at home Magenta after being accepted into col- lege. this theory for me perfectly. I BY KELLY WHITTIER tional high school. As much as the resolution will complain with friends TALON REPORTER “I found it online,” said for “getting good grades” about events that have hap- SPECIAL TO 16 VOICES Lisa of her Keystone National Lisa Gibson woke up late High School, a highly accred- Yellow was lame in the past, it is even pened in the past and con- more so this year because tinuously say “there’s one morning and leisurely ited online high school. New Years happened after I nothing to do in Exeter and I went to her first of two class- Although taking the can’t wait to leave,” but I es of the day while still com- equivalent of a senior’s cours- Black applied to college. Even in the past, my “good grades” reso- also want to have a good fortably in her pajamas. es now, Lisa isn’t unfamiliar lution was somewhat cheat- senior year. A good senior This is not strange or out with the high school scene. ing because I usually do get year, however, would con- of the ordinary for her, it is “I was at Exeter from good grades so therefore I sist of having fun so if I con- even supported by her par- freshman to junior year,” said wouldn’t have work harder tinue to complain night to ents. Lisa’s school life is noth- Lisa, who because of a sud- than normal to maintain my night, I’ll look back on ing like what students at den illness, was not able to resolution’s word. senior year and wish I had Exeter High School experi- attend EHS. This year is the first one taken advantage of the time ence day to day, because Lisa “I had too many that I realized my usual reso- at had when I was at home. is the only student in her absences,” she said. “I was lution wasn’t really achieving I want to live in the green classes and her teachers work absent for a couple of with her from across the months,” she said. country. Her illness did, however, Lisa is a part of the grow- have a positive effect on her ing trend of taking online academic career, seeing as she school courses at home is getting more out of study- opposed to attending tradi- LESSONS Continued on 13A• WE CAN HELP YOU WITH YOUR HOMEWORK THINKING OF BUYING OR SELLING A HOME? Free home market analysis Search the MLS at www.KathyWalsh.com Serving the SAU16 area for over twenty years (603) 772-6212 This Page © 2004 Connelly Communications, LLC, PO Box 592 Hampton, NH 03843- Contributed items and logos are © and ™ their respective owners Unauthorized 21 reproduction of this page or its contents for republication in whole or in part is strictly prohibited • For permission, call (603) 926-4557 • AN-Mark 9A-ODD- Rev 12-16-2004 ATLANTICNEWS.COM VOL 32, NO 11 | MARCH 24, 2006 | ATLANTIC NEWS | PAGE 3 SEA 26,000 COPIES WEEKLY | 22,671 MAILED TO 15 TOWNS | TO ADVERTISE, CALL (603) 926-4557 TODAY! 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