“two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.
they flickered out saying:
“It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.”
-carl sandburg
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image credits: thaths, flickr, mental floss
Jun10
Monthly Archives: June 2018
Jun9
open doors.
one kinder opens the door for another after making sure it is safe for him to go
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the bittersweet feelings of being part of our multi-age class
most of the children don’t see themselves as being
different ages or stages
and may not yet see
that some will be moving on
to the higher grades
where they will have the chance to grow
in ways they have yet to imagine
and some will stay with us
for one more year
where they will have the chance
to be the leaders and teachers
to the new little ones joining our class
what we all know without any doubt
is that we are one
we will always keep an open door for all of them
to safely come and go as they need
and as some leave and as some stay
our journeys continue another day.
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“if I look back when I begin to leave, will they remember me?”
― adam young, owl city
Jun8
funoodler.
the funoodler,
a food-safe reloadable hot gun that can doodle, draw and design with cheese
For a limited time, the laughing squid store is featuring a great deal on this gem.The Fondoodler is a super simple, food-safe reloadable hot gun that melts most types of string, shredded, block or sheet-style cheese in a cylindrical canister, just like a hot glue gun. This product is available for only $17 – an 43% discount on its original retail price of $30.
FEATURES
- It’s a hot glue gun for cheese
- Load it up with pretty much any kind of cheese and splorch away
- In our tests, Velveeta got too liquidy to work very well, so we recommend just using real cheese
- Contrary to the repeated protestations of the Cheetos mascot, being cheesy turns out to be very easy indeed
- The perfect implement for writing entries in your dairy
SPECIFICATIONS
- Model: Fond 1 as in: “if you can “fond” 1 for less, buy it!”
- Condition: New
- Gets cheese-meltingly hot in 3 minutes
- All the convenience of Easy Cheese but maybe less gross? Jury is out on that one
- Make your own Leaning Tower of Cheeza
- Use it with American, Jack, Cheddar, whatever you like
- String cheese is already the perfect size but shredded, block, or even sheet cheese also works
- Use it for mortar in your cracker house. It’s Craft Cheese!
- Dishwasher safe
- Not for use with chocolate or marshmallows (though if you want to put some chocolate chips or tiny marshmallows in there we can’t stop you)
- Power: 120V, 60Hz, .8A
Fondoodler: a hot glue gun, but for cheese. A scientific breakthrough to transform the way we live, the way we think, and the way we put cheese on stuff.
“the poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
- -gilbert k. chesterton
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credits: laughingsquid.com,lori dorn,
Jun7
gangsters.
our 5th grade boys
milling around
excited and nervous and happy
decided they were going to do their ‘gangster walk’
on the way in to their graduation ceremony
in their suits and ties
jackets thrown over shoulders
and i had to smile
when i heard them
strutting by
singing ‘sweet caroline’
at the top of their lungs
i’m betting neil diamond would take it as a compliment
and when they went inside
they recited their kind words
sang school songs
watched as pictures of their younger days
flashed upon the screen
and finally ended with a beautiful candlelighting
i’m proud of these gangsters
as i’ve known some of them since they were 3
before they even knew what letter ‘gangster’ started with.
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“any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.”
-terence winter
Jun6
end/beginning.
kids from school days long since past
happy that this day was last.
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“the biggest happiness is when at the end of the year
you feel better than at the beginning. “
-henry david thoreau
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image credit: ann arbor news, ann arbor public library vintage collection
Jun5
make gentle.
Ethel and Bobby Kennedy play with their sons before bedtime at home
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“let us dedicate ourselves to what the greeks wrote so many years ago:
to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. “
– robert kennedy
november 20, 1925 – june 6, 1968
(50 years ago)
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image credit: time life pictures, paul schuyler
Jun4
rbg.
saw this documentary last night.
mighty powerful.
wow.
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“it’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.”
-ruth bader ginsburg
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credits: magnolia pictures, cnn films. storyville films
Jun3
spear.
who doesn’t use a spear as a bookmark?
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The book is an Exon Domesday,
a unique survival from the age of William the Conqueror.
On loan to Museum of Somerset from Exeter Cathedral.
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“a sharp spear needs no polish.”
-h. rider haggard
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credits: british medieval history, museum of somerset, dr. levi roach
Jun2
homework.
the following was posted in the lost and found section of my neighborhood website:
‘Help me neighbors! I found young Marcus Wilson’s geometry notebook on the way to work around Revena. Anyone know him or his family? I hope his homework isn’t due today!’
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“the worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard.
the worst thing a kid can say about a game is it’s too easy.”
-henry jenkins
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image credit: calvin and hobbes – bill watterson
Jun1
light in the month of june.
my peony tree bursts with june light.
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“green was the silence, wet was the light
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
from 100 Love Sonnets by PABLO NERUDA
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