“the war against hunger is truly mankind’s war of liberation.”
-john f. kennedy
Feb8
Category Archives: Life
Feb7
read aloud.
*celebrating world read aloud day
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“we have an obligation to read aloud to our children. to read them things they enjoy. to read to them stories we are already tired of. to do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.”
-neil gaiman, english author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays
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*World Read Aloud Day is celebrated on the first Wednesday in February. This is a day dedicated not just to reading, but to the art and practice of reading aloud. Stories were passed down from generation to generation even before writing was invented. Oral forms of storytelling were the earliest way of preserving human knowledge, insight, and creativity. This day helps us bring this tradition back to reading while promoting literacy.
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art credit: ‘gnome’ by rien poortvliet, illustrator
Feb3
learned.
“i have learned that to be with those i like is enough.”
-walt whitman
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art credit: olga soldo
Feb1
best way.
“the best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you.”
-joyce meyer
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art credit- L Józef Wilkoń – Leopanter
Jan30
so annoying!
a found list of annoyances above
i really love these so much
i really love that someone wrote them down
i am not annoyed by found lists
a few things i am annoyed with:
-mosquitoes
-cold coffee
-wet wool touching me
-trying to undo an old roll of tape that tears into tiny strips
-most technology when it refuses to work correctly
even if 97% of the time it is due to something i am doing or not doing
-yodelers, unless i am in the alps.
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what are some of your annoyances?
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“what annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot compain?”
-marquis de custine
Jan29
maestro.
a beautiful, beautiful film
in every way
it will bring you
great music
great joy
great love
great passion
and
will break your heart.
early in the film
felicia, later to be leonard bernstein’s wife
asks him –
“you don’t even know how much you need me, do you?”
and he answers –
“i might.”
through all they endured
together and apart
around the globe and back
they found
the greatest love of their lives
in each other.
brava.
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“a work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them;
and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.”
-leonard bernstein
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image/film credits: netflix, lea pictures, sikelis productions, amblin entertainment, fred berner films
Jan27
white on white.
the kinder painted
using play feathers and real fingers
and colors they mixed and made
one
chose to paint
only white on white paper
to see what it would look like
it was a beautiful painting
all nuance and shade and texture.
“renoir said once that nothing was so difficult, and at the same time so exciting, to paint, as white on white.”
– ambroise vollard
Jan24
reports.
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spending the recent past writing report cards
for the kinder
always a fascinating trip down memory lane
seeing how far they’ve come already
an unlimited distance still to go
the good, the bad, and the unexplained
all the good hearts, dramas, tears, and laughs
each their very own person
learning as we go.
all of us.
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*more of frank the puppy’s report card:
“We sent him there because he is truly the most energetic puppy I have ever met,” his mom told Newsweek. “Our older dog needed a break,” she joked.
When Frank came home with the report card, she was in stitches. “I thought it was hysterical when I saw it because I can only imagine that Frank is probably the class clown that’ll do anything for a laugh and that’s definitely his idea of the best time,” she said.
Described on the card as the “life of the party,” the report also says that Frank loved wrestling with his buddies.
“It makes my heart so happy to know that he has so many pals at preschool,” said Spahr. Working on etiquette skills in his preschool class, the report also told Frank’s owners that his best friends are Daisy, Cooper, Vader, Hudson, and even a dog named Angus Beef.
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“my report card always said, ‘jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students.”
-jim carrey
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credits: newsweek magazine uk, alice gibbs
Jan21
riotous.
warmth and soul-seeking
winter below the surface
life continues on.
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“and don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. it’s quiet down there but the roots are riotous.”
-rumi
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photo credit: science hub (nodules on the roots of the white clover)
Jan20
snow very happy.
“well, I know now. know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person”
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I didn't have my glasses on.... 