The Challenge Of Our Lifetime

They are a family too, stop global warming.

Global Warming ( Definition)-  an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution

Global warming is the most profound environmental challenge of our time – and it is accelerating at an alarming rate.
Our goal: to reduce the pollution that causes global warming and avoid catastrophic climate change.


 How do we know the Earth is Warming?
Science has shown that the Earth has been warming for the past 100 years.
As far back as the 1850s, a small number of weather stations around the world were compiling temperature records. These numbers grew during the 20th century and today there are thousands of land-based weather stations and ocean buoys in every corner of the world monitoring temperatures.


How do we know that Humans are responsible?
What warms the earth? I. The sun. II. Earth's Reflectivity. III. Greenhouse Gases.
All of these things cause Global Warming but which on these is our current reason for Global warming? It isn't I. The sun ( Ultimately, the climate system is powered by the sun: all else being equal, if you turn up the sun, you'll warm up the Earth. According to IPCC estimates, the sun has accounted for just a small portion of warming since 1750.), II. The earths reflectivity changes points to cooling not warming(Around 30% of the sun's energy that reaches the Earth is reflected back into space. Changes in how much sunlight is absorbed, and how much is reflected, can affect global temperatures. Using satellite and land-based observations and computer models, scientists have calculated how Earth's reflectivity has changed over time.) That leaves the greenhouse effect as the only remaining scientific explanation for the rise in global temperatures in recent decades. Scientists have direct measurements of CO₂ concentrations in the atmosphere going back more than 50 years, and indirect measurements (from ice cores) going back hundreds of thousands of years. These measurements confirm that concentrations are rising rapidly.
 . All the evidence points to the III. Greenhouse Gases.


 Conclusion: As far as scientists are concerned, it's case closed: human activity is causing the earth to get warmer primarily through the burning of fossil fuels, with a smaller contribution from deforestation. All other scientific explanations for why the Earth is getting warmer have been eliminated.


 The Global warming we are experiencing is not natural, people are causing it. Only CO₂   
and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activities explain the observed warming now taking place on earth.
Animals are dying and our health is be threatened.


Get Involved and Fight Global Warming
Pollution, especially from cars and from making electricity, is a major cause of global warming. Find out how you can make a difference.
So here are a few ways that you can fight global warming without having to tie yourself to trees and what not. Simple easy ways that can be turned into a lifestyle:
I. Switch to Energy Saving Bulbs
II. Driving Efficiently: 1. Drive less aggressively. 2. Slowing down while driving. 3. Knowing when to use the air. 4. Don't Idle, if you are stopping your car for more than ten seconds ( not in traffic) then you can turn off your engine. Idling for more than ten seconds can use more gas and create more global warming pollution.
III. Driving Less, by combining trips, telecommute once a week, carpooling and using public transportation when possible.


Those are just a few simple ways that you can help change the planet, and I know what you're thinking " Can one person really make a difference?" The answer is, Yes! If everyone asked their self that question and said yes! Then we would change the world! We would be saving forests, animals, and putting ourselves and generations to come in better health! So don't think you aren't making a difference because you are! Every person counts! We have to stand hand in hand and fight global warming and make the world a safer place for wildlife and mankind!


'Til Next Time Fellow Tree Huggers. :)
Tori Taylar


If you'd like more information about Global Warming and how to help I highly recommend checking out some of these websites:


http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/


www.edf.org   ( Environmental Defense Fund )

www.worldvviewofglobalwarming.com

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/

Valentines Day

Valentines Day.
 The day for friends, family, lovers, and mates.

People tend to make this day about their "Valentine" and traditionally that's the way it was intended.

Yet the Valentineless can't help but feel yucky on this day. But if you don't have a speical Valentine, make the best out of this day the best way you can.

Trust me I'm not telling you to do something that I'm not doing myself, because I'm in the same boat. We can sail down this valentineless ocean together.

Usually every Valentines Day, I go around saying I hate this day, and to be honest I know I've only said that because of a lack of a Valentine. But I don't hate Valentines Day, it just isn't a day for me to celebrate yet, I guess. Haha

I may have not had a boyfriend and may not have one now, but I do have Jesus and He's love enough for me. If you're lagging around because you don't have a Valentine try to make the best of the day, and remember that you have a Valentine in Jesus. He's everything you need Him to be.

Don't waste the day because others make you feel loveless, or unloved. I know it may be hard, but know that you've found Love is Christ and He loves you and that's all that matters.

'Til Next Time Fellow Sailors,
Tori Taylar
 

Prom

Prom (Definition) - a formal dance, especially one held by a high school or college class at the end of an academic year.

Prom.
Pretty much something that every girl gets to dream of before the wedding.

The dress.
The shoes.
The jewelry.
The matching colors for you and your date.
Oh the planning can be overwhelming, yet something girls MUST experience.

Ladies, if you have the chance to go to prom, go to it!
Don't miss it. I think it'd be pretty cool to experience.

I'm a Senior this year, and I can't go to prom because of the simple fact that I'm homeschooled so the lack of a "real school" persay is why I can't attend. Some of my girl-friends invite me to come as a friend to their prom but i'd be put in a "third wheel" position and that'd be plain..awkward. Haha.

Sometimes I haven't given up on it but, considering the fact it's my last year of high school I've given up on it but who know's I may just get to go. (fingers crossed) 

If I don't I'll dream about my wedding instead, and wait a few years. Haha
Well that was my random spiel.

'Til next time fellow promers.
Tori Taylar

Songs In Remembrance

Remember ( Definition)- to recall to the mind by an act or effort of memory; think of again;to have recollection.

I'd like to know that people will remember me.

  Not because I was fun to be around but because I made an impact on their life.

I don't want to be another memory to people that eventually fade along with time. I don't have to be in their minds every second but maybe once or twice at least after I'm gone, I'd like to be remembered for the Love I have for Christ.
  Remembered by my songs.

My Song Book

When someone listens to my songs, I'd like to for them to feel like they've just listened to my heart. They just listened to how I feel about the Lord and more importantly that they've had an experience with God like I do when I write them.

My songs are my legacy to be my remembered by.
They are the very reason why I'm pursuing what am I going after now. God intended for me to be a musician, to be a songwriter, for His glory. I wouldn't dream of doing anything else.

I wasn't always one to say that either. I often tried to run from my calling. Telling God that I didn't want to be influence on people. That why every person that comes in my life is because I have to be an influence on them? I stopped that way of thinking a long time ago, and humbled myself and looked at it as an honor. God chose me, to influence people, and I've learned that it's through my music. Not through talking to people or counseling ( well for now anyway) but it's definitely through my music. And I'm so grateful that He's chosen to work through me, and often I feel that I'm not worthy of such a task, but I take His hand and ask Him to guide me through whatever I have to do.

I don't write my songs.
God writes them.
I didn't teach myself to play guitar.
The Holy Spirit taught me. I know it may sound ridiculous to some people but He did, I can't tell you how I learned anything on that instrument and picked it up, but I did by the grace of God because I asked Him to be my teacher and He has been.

Yes those songs are "my songs" but really it's God's songs. I can't take any of the credit. I won't be able to write anymore without Him.

'Til next time my fellow songwriters
Tori Taylar

Psalm 45:1 -

My heart is stirred by a beautiful song.

I say, “I have composed this special song for the king;

my tongue is as skilled as the stylus of an experienced scribe.

My Special Song for the King: http://soundcloud.com/eric-chancey/place-of-intimacy/s-6n1Ec

Past Faults, Current Victories

I'm pretty sure everyone knows what this month is: Black History Month.


Some people take this month to harbor anger and past faults that people have made.
I'd like to be one of the one's that takes this month to be proud of our current victories and forgive the things that happened in the past.


Yes, my ancestors have been through so much, it has even run down to my grandparents experiencing racism. I've heard many stories of how we were treated wrongly and unfair but I can't hold it against current people of that race or even the past people. They were wrong for what they did, but it's time to forgive and show some love.
Our country's past racism still runs through our veins, and cries from the ground. We need to rise above the constant gnawing of past wrongs. Let's declare love as the reconciliation; the deliberate act of forgiveness.


I'm so very proud to say that the negative things people have put us down for we rose above it and have succeeded in life. Anyone can rise above it, we just need to look at the influences we have and put our mind to it and do it. Negativity from the past still holds people back even though they aren't getting beat, picking cotton, or watching their family get sold off to other familes. African Americans have been put in a mindset of settling for less, and giving up and we don't have to be that way. We need to fight like the great people before us did and still fight for freedom and carry on what our examples started years ago, don't let their fights be for nothing at all. Heroes, all the way from : Dr. Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Malcom X, John M. Perkins, Phil Brooks an inventor, George Washington Carver an agricultural chemist, Nelson Mandela, and Barack Obama to the king of pop Michael Jackson. So many people that we can be proud of, so many people that made a difference in history. So many people we can model ourselves after, african americans have so many reasons to fight and make a difference.


During this month we don't need to dwell on the past faults of racism but let's dwell on our current victories, and many victories to come. We aren't out of the woods yet, but we're fighting through.


So  Let's love one another, because it's louder than racism, louder than differences and louder than hatred. It's even louder than pain. Let's live in |peace love & harmony.|


'Til next time fellow fighters.
Tori Taylar

Jumping Without A Parachute

 So I'm sort of new at this whole "blogging thing".
 But I figured I'd give it a try.


First off, I'm Taylar. I'm a quiet, reserved person. Observant, and just living this life to please my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Without Him, my life is meaningless; useless.


I love to write, but I've never really gone to far with it my "comfort zone" is music, and it hasn't always been but, it is. I figured doing this blogging adventure is like jumping without a parachute. Doing something new; adventerous this year, taking a new step in life.


This blog won't be a place to scream my diary out to world. Yet my future writings will have my thoughts, feelings, and heart in every word. There will be things about music, life, love, pain, the environment, family, and God. Whatever I write, will have a piece of me in it.


So this is my leap for the time being, and with the Lord as my parachute, I trust I'll have a safe landing..just can't see it yet.


'Til next time fellow contemplaters.
Tori Taylar