1. There is a Quaker saying: ''Let your life speak.'' Describe the environment in which you were raised--your family, home, neighborhood or community--and how it influenced the person you are today.
The sun is barely up and on the dark gray asphalt a town slowly develops. First one road, then another one branching out from it, the color grows and lines connect on the two-dimensional buildings and windows. Looking out from her house, a small girl watches the shadows retreat off of the chalk creation. Children gradually join her until the miniature sidewalks fill with the flurry of scooters and bikes.
It seems like only yesterday that I spent my summer mornings creating abstract art with chalk on the driveway or imitating Pocahontas as I crept between the mountain laurel and trees of my backyard. I still venture up to the boulder that my younger sister christened “Thinking Rock” and look out into the forest, thinking. My childhood, living in the house that I did, never consisted of dolls and “house,” but tree houses, mud concoctions, and stick forts. This is where my imagination grew untamed and I developed a curiosity and creativity that define my natural love of learning.
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