My brother. He's 4 years younger than me and do to some unsual circumstances that are too complicated to go into here, I ended up raising him from the time I was 16 on. Now I technically didn't HAVE to.... but even at 16 I didn't think it was a good idea to leave a 12 year old boy to his own devices. Now he's 21 and a proud parent of a new baby boy and is doing a great job and I definitely know I helped him get there.

Ok I know this is gonna sound weird but I would have to say the most important constant in my life is change. I get very restless if I am in one area or stuck in one routine in any aspect of my life for too long. I'm constantly on the lookout for new ways to grow and absorb knowledge from my surroundings so if I'm stuck in a specific loop for too long I get almost bored. If for some reason I'm unable to change I'll start to get very robotic in everything i do and I'll know it's time to find something to reanimate myself.

Like Superhero, Dolphin Saves Beached Pygmy Sperm Whales

by Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada on 03.12.08

A bottlenose dolphin, known as Moko to the locals, has rescued two beached pygmy sperm whales in New Zealand.

"Conservation officer Malcolm Smith told the BBC that he and a group of other people had tried in vain for an hour and a half to get the whales to sea. The pygmy sperm whales had repeatedly beached, and both they and the humans were tired and set to give up, he said." That's when, like a superhero, Moko made its entry and seemed to communicate with the whales, leading them to safety.

"I don't speak whale and I don't speak dolphin," Mr Smith told the BBC, "but there was obviously something that went on because the two whales changed their attitude from being quite distressed to following the dolphin quite willingly and directly along the beach and straight out to sea."

He added: "The dolphin did what we had failed to do. It was all over in a matter of minutes."

The whales haven't been seen since, but Moko the dolphin has returned and shows up often to pla with swimmers off Mahia beach.

Malcolm Smith was so happy about the turn of events that he actually went into the water to give the dolphin a pat on the back.