“what does our word say?!!”
(two kinder working together in my multi-age classroom, one older, one younger)
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“learning is creation, not consumption.
knowledge is not something a learner absorbs,
but something a learner creates.”
-george couros
Dec9
Author Archives: beth
Dec8
yet to be.
an ever-evolving downtown public installation
of personal hopes and dreams
yet to be lived
how would you fill in the blank?
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“the ninety and nine are with dreams, content
but the hope of the world made new,
is the hundredth man who is grimly bent
on making those dreams come true.”
-edgar allan poe
Dec7
hail, yes.
my sweet cherry blossom spring doormat
has met the sour almost winter hail.
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“he ran away from the rain and was caught in a hailstorm.”
turkish proverb
Dec6
up for a stroll?
The longest road in the world to walk is from Cape Town (South Africa) to Magadan (Russia).
No need for planes or boats, there are bridges.
It’s 22,387 km and it takes 4,492 hours to run it.
It would be 187 days walking non-stop, or 561 days walking 8 hours a day.
The route passes through 17 countries, six time zones and all seasons of the year.
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“all walking is discovery, on foot we take the time to see things whole.”
*-hal borland
*Harold “Hal” Glen Borland was an American author, journalist and naturalist. In addition to writing many non-fiction and fiction books about the outdoors, he was a staff writer and editorialist for The New Yorker.
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credits: united humanists
Dec5
options.
b tells me these are the ‘options’
for ordering from his coffee/hot cocoa shop
i can certainly appreciate that he has organized it so beautifully.
now that they’re all laid out
it will be much easier to choose.
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“it’s easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.”
-robert hall
Dec4
brace yourself.
how you smile when you first get your braces
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after many years of delay
it was finally my time
to begin wearing
invisalign braces
4 months in and 14 to go
a little bit of slurring
a lot of brushing
going to the ortho office
sitting in the waiting room
surrounded by 13-year olds
we may have different things on our mind
but we have something in common as well.
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“i’m not going to miss wearing the braces very much.”
-america ferrera
Dec3
peace for today.
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credit: melodie beattie
Dec2
hearts to you.
my heart goes out to all children, their families, and their teachers
senselessly lost or hurt this week in a just a moment at a local school.
as a mother, grandmother, teacher, and human
i cannot make sense of it.
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image credit: wild and precious
Dec2
hearts to you.
my heart goes out to all children, their families, and their teachers
senselessly lost or hurt this week in a just a moment at a local school.
as a mother, grandmother, teacher, and human
i cannot make sense of it.
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image credit: wild and precious
Dec1
running on empty?
missing the point: man in germany drives to driving test
A man in Germany has discovered the hard way that it’s best to get a driving license first before trying to use it. Police in Bergheim, near Cologne, said Tuesday that the 37-year-old drove himself to his driving test, parking an Opel Zafira outside the test center in front of an astonished examiner.
They said he told police officers who were called to the scene on Monday that he had only driven because he wanted to make sure to get to the driving test on time.
His test was immediately called off. The man now faces an investigation for driving without a license. Police also opened an investigation of the car’s owner.
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“perspective is worth 80 iq points”
-alan kay
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source credit: ap- berlin
I didn't have my glasses on.... 