Viccinium Myrtillus

By:Chidera Reece 

Indeed, it all depends on who is responding. 

A grownup will likely give you an explanation about light, how it bounces off air particles, how some wavelengths are absorbed while other wavelengths are thrown back out, and how those particular colors/wavelengths are the ones that you and I can see. 

A scientist’s response will probably be considerably more perplexing but a lot more compelling.

But, every time you ask a journalist, you will receive a different response. 

One solution, for instance, is found in the unique qualities of blue fingerpaint. Blue paint dissolves from children’s hands into the air and colors it blue whenever they use it. The color ages over time, yet as long as fingerpainting exists, the sky will always be blue. 

The creatures with blue eyes that live at the North and South Poles are tied to another solution. They are constantly gazing upward, and the entire world can see the blue of their eyes as they reflect back. These polar critters are probably unknown to you since they are skilled at hiding from satellites and explorers. All we’ll see is the reflection in their eyes.

My hippopotamus, to you I write.

How I love the way you bounce, skip and feed,

Invading my mind day and through the night,

Always dreaming about the pink milkweed.

Let me compare you to a lying spoon?

You are more shiny, comical and neat.

Odd sun heats the darling peaches of June,

And summertime has the domical peat.

How do I love you? Let me count the ways.

I love your crazed arms, eyes and attitude.

Thinking of your amazed eyes fills my days.

My love for you is the unfazed elude.

Now I must away with a discreet heart,

Remember my dazed words whilst we’re apart.

                                                                        “Wide Awake From a girl that doesn’t read”

                                                                                                                    By: Chidera Reece 

               Many people believe that mental health is for crazy people with psychological problems that need to be put away in a jail and not let out. For a fresh breath, this isn’t enough. I thought the same thing as well, but then reality hit me, especially with COVID. Mental health was always a problem but it was always overlooked even on social media someone could look happy and still be depressed for example me before covid i was type depressed so i took a year break from college because i wanted to get my life together and the pandemic isn’t helping my dad was sick and also my mom was sick. At that time I really took my time reading articles about depression. Helping myself and other family members struggling with the same thing was my goal. 

Looking back at my research on depression I stumbled upon an article “Covid Depression and Anxiety” By John Hopkins – Published on February 14, 2021. It really explained a lot to me for example who is at risk of mental health problems. People with preexisting vulnerabilities to mental or physical health problems are especially at risk. The website confirmed my claim since I had experienced vulnerabilities in the past. When we feel in charge of our condition and that there is something we can do to change it, we gain. People may feel less helpless now than they did at the beginning of the epidemic when more information and prevention techniques, including vaccines, are developed.

In closing I wasn’t much of a reader when I graduated from high school, but as the covid started to happen, I started to read more to figure out why I was acting out in a way I couldn’t comprehend and feeling certain ways.