Phoenix Lifsavers Conference!

David Strickland!!!

Ann Marie! An amazing author from Toronto. I'll tell you all about a new book of hers after I read it.



Hola!

I was invited to Phoenix for the annual Lifesavers conference. It was amazing! I was actually their special guest speaker for the plenary session this last Monday morning, 3/28/2011. The room was full of well-dressed adults. Everyone there had a well-respected profession. As the room began to fill up my nerves started to show. I sat at the table on stage cracking my knuckles while the thousand plus took their seats. As I was introduced at the podium the words just started to flow. I only had a few sentences scribbled down on a card to keep me on track but I hardly ever looked at them. Twenty one minutes went by like they were five. Success! It was the best speech yet. I met some amazing people and hopefully made some great friends. Follow your dreams everyone!!!

I’m hopefully saving lives

I’m hopefully changing minds

Pulling out respect

Cause it’s something fading in time

It’s the first thing that we learn

When we’re finally able to drive

Vehicles impatient to take their turns

It’s like their rather waiting to die

Happens at high speeds

We we’re cut off driving on freeways

We hit the brakes and scream stop

But drivers don’t care what we say

Only care about themselves

It’s sad cause most are adults

These teens learn to drive

But just copy what’s on the roads

Disrespectful people are pathetic

Blaming it on the youth

But if they only learned respect

Instead of pointing the finger at you

We’d all be better drivers

Brain injuries on the road would be gone

It’s pointless not to try this

Killing ourselves is just all to wrong…

Tyler Presnell

11 Years and finally able to stand on the right leg...

11 Years in the Making

Finally Able to Stand on my Right Leg and

Thankful Both Sides ain't Paralyzed from the Waist Down

I'm at a Phase Now

My Frustration in Speeches Takes Out

Sometimes the Viewers Witness Me Weak Havin a Breakdown

So I Preach RESPECT

It's Lost not even Taught

On the Road There's only Laws

You have NO Respect if the only Reason You slowed was Not to get Caught

Slow Down Buddy

Swallow Your Pride

Your the only One that Thinks Your that Cool

95 Percent of the Population Grows up to Dislike their life After School

Most People are Impatient

Will Never Slow Down or Get This

I Guarantee that if You were Paralyzed from A Crash

Instead of Racing Throughout Life

You'd Count Each Day down Minute by Minute...

Tyler Presnell 2011

Respect Poetry! Poets create the greatest words ever written...



Support The STANDUP Act!

We see their tears

We read their minds

And can feel that painful gap from the loved ones lost in time

It's to early we scream!

Wished it would've been mine

If they're barely old enough to be alone

Then how are they old enough to drive

A loaded weapon at 16!

Impatience is life

It's what we know and see

So how do we make it right?

Let's start with the road

Save lives!

We demand it

Young deaths are getting old and us survivors are mad

Screaming "How can you stand this!"

Come on people

Respect our youth and quit standing back

Dont make us beg with signs

Respect lives

And follow through with the STANDUP ACT...

Tyler Presnell 2011

I Scream My Words Every Chance I get!!!

Photo by Stephanie Davis

woke up

and got the call of my life

fly me out to DC bout to speak on whats right

but do these people even care

i dont think they do

they might have been affected but nothin like me and you

flyin private jets escapin this lethal zoo

paralyzed from the neck then friends are forgettin you

selfish minds move on

couldn't sit and visit with you

they've got friends that can walk!!!

headin out with a group of four

while your old brain injured buddy is screamin behind the door

cryin to God

what'd you do this for!!!

why me?

why not him or her?

why not some punk bully that could've really deserved it?

like this guy that dropped from boot camp and claimed he got hurt

pics on smaller people cause it makes him feel worth

thirty years old and his life is pathetic

obsessed with fantasy football stats and checklists

caused what happened

though he'll never regret it

he'll never look in the mirror while i'm goin through hell

friends at one point a second it changed

i was thrown around bashed in beat up and i'm to blame

this grown man even laughed at my limp

thats the honest to God truth

now i can relate with that kid

cryin to God

why me?

why not him?

now i preach it

i've got them feelin the love

venting through my pen cause i'm done feelin this punk

done feelin people that cause hurt and never show up

it was your fault

but your to young to take it

speakin out to Congress and Senate hopin they change it

my bloodstained brain the one to blame cant even claim it

i try to explain the pain he left me to face with

so real so raw

has me chokin on stage

fightin for the cause with these tears that i can't restrain

paralyzed for years so he's stuck feelin the pain

while the drivers out there cheersin with buddies cause nothins changed

happens every day

 come on people lets show respect

breathe it and live it

dont just talk the talk

if you wanna be respected gotta walk the walk

and if your challenge is a closed door

just knock and knock

if they dont answer bust through

this little stumblin block

never capture dreams if your stuck in the small talk

i have it!

doesn't mean that you got it

i've died two times

i'd die again if i lost it

savin one life at a time has really got me exhausted

i'm stressed out

Tai's screamin "you ok!"

eyes bloodshot sleep

i haven't seen in days

i still smile

even though i know i'm insane

runnin outta time

had to grow up in the pain

couldn't walk a straight line

forced to create my own way

you couldn't walk in my shoes

you show no RESPECT

could be the best lesson we as the people are bound to lose

it's not shown on the streets

it's not shown on the news

it's not shown towards me

it's not shown towards you

it's not shown towards this world that us people are bound to ruin

so i'll show towards you

and you can show towards me

so we can stop with the recklass disrespect on the streets...

Tyler Presnell 2011

NOYS.ORG - I was featured!!!

Yo, yo, yo!!!!

I was featured over on the National Organizations For Youth Safety website. 

Check it out!!

http://noys.org/stories.aspx

Tyler

Leaving on a jet plane....

HELLO HELLO HELLO!!!

I am heading to Washington DC tonight to help support the Standup Act again.  I am so honored that I was asked to come back! If you have been following my blog you know I was in Washington this past September to lobby for the act.  I will try to keep you all updated on Facebook and Twitter while I'm there.  Once I return I will be sure to update the blog with pictures and stories of my trip.

Drive with RESPECT!!

Tyler

Third time in The Columbian!!!

Yo!!!

I made our local paper today for the third time.  It was definitely a surprise for me because of how last minute every was thrown together.  Great opportunities always seem to come when I'm hitting my head up against the wall wondering what my next move should be. Follow your heart people...  That will never let you down. http://www.columbian.com/news/2011/mar/05/vancouver-man-to-lobby-for-teen-driver-safety/

Check out the link!!!