The St. Joseph Writers Guild has a heart for writing and for writers. We encourage anyone who writes, or who thinks they might like to write, to seek us out. The goal of the St. Joseph Writers Guild is to encourage writers to have confidence in themselves and their writing ability. We wish to promote in them the desire to further develop their skills. It is our task to promote respect and enthusiasm for the written word. This anthology of some of our guild members' works is a written collage of our passions for the art of creative writing. This collection will now be preserved for future generations. Long after we writers are gone, this book of our written words will live on. In the future, as this book pops up again and again, it will be like looking backward and seeing the footprint we made in the sands of time. All proceeds to benefit the St. Joseph Writers Guild Annual Young Writers Contest.

Poetry and Photography by James Fly Evoloving love glows and radiates love flows and emanates love knows and pulsates the throbbing heart of the universe orbiting its elliptical course, evolving over time and space born in the infinite infant of the human race. consciously unconscious until the instant it sees itself mirrored in another's face...

People like to blame someone for problems. Many people blame the president, Congress, local school boards, administrators, or teachers for the shortfalls of the public school system. The problem is not that the educators and lawmakers aren't trying to improve the system; it's that they just haven't realized the proverbial horse is dead. If the basic system doesn't work, all the money and strategies and dedication in the world will not help unless the system itself is replaced. One of the most crucial things the system has failed to do is differentiate between equal educational opportunity for all and equal (or identical) education for all. Instead of trying to make everybody the same, an educational system must ensure equal rights for everyone while still allowing them to develop at their own rate and in their own way. Only then can we have the diversity, creativity, and ingenuity needed to compete in the world today. In this book. I explain why our system has failed (The Dead Horse) and what we can do about it (A New Horse).