February 2012
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in honor of valentine's day ... my favorite love...
Sonnet 44
from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers Plucked in the garden, all the summer through, And winter, and it seemed as if they grew In this close room, nor missed the sun and showers. So, in the like name of that love of ours, Take back these thoughts which here unfolded too, And which on warm and cold days I withdrew From...
September 2011
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Three years ago, I wrote a piece for my Personal Essay class that allowed me to both confront and make peace with my experience with 9/11, a subject that I hadn’t really been able to talk honestly about for years. I won’t post the whole thing here. But this is an excerpt from it that still describes how I feel, ten incredibly short years later.
Mine is a different kind of fear, one...
August 2011
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One minute, Nick and I are just folding laundry.
The next, he’s wearing every piece of underwear I own on his head. How did I get so lucky.
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“I knew nothing but the shadows, and I thought them real. You came—oh, my...”
– Sibyl Vane, The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
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In case you missed it, Arne Duncan basically... →
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world-shaker: themattsmith
This … is great news.
July 2011
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“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and...”
– Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
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I got too invested in the Casey Anthony trial
And now I feel like I have a grief-hangover. Emotionally exhausted. Admittedly ridiculous.
June 2011
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regarding anthony weiner ...
in no way do i agree with what he did. in no way do i think it’s acceptable behavior of any married man.
but here’s what i do think:
it is none of our business. none.
this is and should remain an issue between him and his wife. i understand that we’re a society that gets off to public humiliation and spectacle, but these are real people. this is a real marriage. let them...
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painted fingernails instantly make me feel more...
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Bored Stiff: A note from one of my students (or... →
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The past few years many of my students have written me letters at the end of the year thanking me for everything I have done for them. I wanted to share this one because it made me verklempt:
“Dear Mr. C,
You have really impacted my life. I know it has really been one year since I have known…
this is really my only hope - to make a difference like this in even one...
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
– ~Hannah Arendt (via quitexinfamous)
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“You are not just a drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop”
– Rumi (via beingabletofly)
April 2011
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currently loving
spring
florence + the machine
mumford & sons
tacos
checking things off my to-do list
opening all of the windows (car, apt)
chipped cherry nailpolish
4 days of class left
8 days until nick gets stateside
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Florence + the Machine - “Cosmic...
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“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem...”
– Ray Bradbury (via thechocolatebrigade)
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February 2011
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going on 48 hours of radio silence, and the...
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“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a...”
– Helen Keller
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“Teaching is a complex art of performance, intellect, innate instinct, patience,...”
– Do It Anyway, Courtney E. Martin (via lancecore)
I love this. If I could hug this quote, I would.
(via positivelypersistentteach)