La Salle High School - Raconteur Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Story ll Life: A Series Of Dynamic Events There is a time for knocking down, for fhrowing stones away, for CHANGING, when we put our life on the line and hope for the best. There is a fime for BUILDING, for sewing those who need us, when we take new and broader steps into the frontier of life. There is a time for LAUGHING, for reioicing, for hoping, when we feel flee to have ioy, because we have hope even when there are no reasons for it. There is a time for CELEBRATING, for dancing, for embracing, when we believe life has a very promising fuiute as we ioin fogether to celebrate out belief that life makes sense. There is a time for KEEPING, for promising, when we discover some things we treasure which give promise to life and the way we are living it. There is a iime for KEEPING SILENT, for reflection, when these are no words for what is happening, when words say nothing and silence expresses everything. There is a time for HEALING, for reassuring that we are not alone, when one heart speaks to another heart through words, thoughts, or presence. There is a time for SPEAKING, for searching, for learning, when one offers another words of wisdom, memory, and hope as a ifi to another There is a time or USING our TALENTS, being what we were meant to be, when we seek another in order to make possible things which were not when alone. There is a time for HAPPINESS, for loving, when only giving is proper, hope fining, words suitable, faith adequate. There is a time for LIVIN', when time is .taken out to look around and see, when my lifetime is for grooving on everything life is giving. There is a time for PEACE, for heart, when there is a time where change is accepted, building accomplished, celebrating fining, healing given, talents used, love felt within, and most of ali, ,happiness realized.

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Awareness Of The Challenges Of Life Life is a continuous struggle. It is evident through our nevereending dissatisfaction with ourselves as we are. We endlessly strive for a better life, a fuller life. We want to be the best in the city, the state, the notion. Our hopes become our goals. In our eyes, we are No. 1, and no one eise can be. We've learned from our memories and our mistakes. e We continue to learn. L ' 'Sn 1- T Our greatest hope lies in the , E i 5' future, for life is 0 wk . ENDRD CHALLENGE. . - ha t' J FAR ABOVE LEFT: Rick Brown struggles to gain ground even in the darkest moments of defeat; LEFT: Don St, John enjoys reading about the chalienges of our world; ABOVE: No one but Javier Beiorano, a foreign exchange student from Bolivia, is more aware of the challenges of his life.

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There is a special time for knocking down, throwing stones away, changing. Change is an opportunity, a 9:90? step forward. We let our dreams take shape while we reach for others. Change is a chance to grow. We put our life on The line and hope. We mus? know That there comes a time when we must 4e? go, sacrifice, risk what we've got, surrender comforf, and hope for the best. There is a Time for separating the valuable from the worihless, for letting go of Qhe aid in hope of The new, for giving away what we've got in order to gain much more, for leaving the security of home +0 begin a hopeful future. Change is a sfep farther than we've ever gone before. New horizons have the power to transform us into beautifui people because we have accepted change, Life's story is realized when we make progress through the wilderness of life and CHANGE for our good and ha? of ofhers. 26