out seeing the lights tonight.
may you and your family be filled with light and laughter.
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“always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
-e.b. white
Dec22
Dec21
this is the solstice.
“this is the solstice,
the still point of the sun,
it’s cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold and unlocking,
where the past lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath,
the door of a vanished house left ajar.”
-margaret atwood
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art credit: Alica Block
Dec20
inside edition.
side eye and some intense discussion going on at a recent meeting
as co-editors in chief olive and yeti make the tough calls.
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insider exclusive – behind the scenes backstory of ididnthavemyglasson.wordpress.com:
before each and every time i post a blog
i am subjected to the scrutiny of my photo editorial board
who can be
exacting and my most challenging critics
or
supportive and my most passionate champions
often made to defend my choices
i am never sure how it will go.
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“they can’t censor the gleam in my eye.”
charles laughton
Dec19
zero finders, one keeper.
The $50 cash prize along with a congratulatory note hidden in a locker on campus.
With every new college semester, students are faced with multiple syllabuses outlining the subjects in their classes. But do students read them thoroughly? One Tennessee professor put it to the test. Kenyon Wilson is the associate head of performing arts at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and decided to put an Easter egg in the syllabus for his music seminar class this past semester.
Wilson waited until final exams were done and the semester was over before checking the locker.
He revealed the unclaimed cash in a Facebook post. He said that students have been “good sports” about it. “I know my students read, and I don’t expect them to religiously go through word-by-word but if they did, I wanted to reward them.”
Haley Decker, a recent graduate from the university, took Wilson’s seminar-style class for the past 3 and a half years and was one of the students who failed to find the hidden cash this past semester. “I honestly thought it was hilarious. This class typically is the same format every semester, so students know what to expect and don’t take the time to read the syllabus like we should.”
Decker said she texted a group of friends that were in the class with her and everyone thought it was a clever move by Wilson. “I think this was a really smart experiment for Dr. Wilson to test out,” Decker said. “It definitely made the music students realize that despite repetitive information you should still read through your syllabus carefully.” The professor notes that it was all in good fun.
The hint read: “Thus (free to the first who claims; locker one hundred forty-seven; combination fifteen, twenty-five, thirty-five), students may be ineligible to make up classes and …” This would have led students to a locker that contained a $50 bill, free to the first student to claim it. But at the end of the semester, when he went to check the locker, the bill was still there.
“It an academic trope that no one reads the syllabus,” Wilson said. “It’s analogous to the terms and conditions when you’re installing software, everyone clicks that they’ve read it when no one ever does.” The class was made up of 71 students. Wilson said his syllabus typically doesn’t change much, but with Covid protocols there was some new information this time around. “There’s a standard boilerplate that doesn’t change. The university has us put a lot of legal stuff towards the end,” Wilson added. “But on the first day of class I told them there was stuff that had changed, and for them to make sure they read it.”
“i used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal email by hiding it in her textbooks.”
-joan welsh
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story credits: Sara Smart, CNN
Dec18
officially on staycation.
my staycation agenda:
“take wrong turns. talk to strangers. open unmarked doors.
and if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing.
do things without always knowing how they will turn out.”
-randall munroe
come to think of it, i’ve done this my whole life
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image credit: vintage pinterest – beach in nantucket, ma
Dec17
all together.
“here’s to fresh coffee and good books and kind hearts and found beauty
and the weird, kindred souls who help us know we are all in this together.”
-nanea hoffman
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image credit: Branger/Harper’s Bazaar – Vintage Paris 1925
Dec16
parenthood.
advice from the kinder to the parents of a classmate’
about how to take care of their new baby.
one so sweet
one filled with adventure
all the others equally from the heart
everyone has their own unique way of approaching parenthood.
“folks, i don’t trust children. they’re here to replace us.”
- stephen colbert
Dec15
the 3 wise guys.
you never know quite when and where these sages will appear, but they always have something to say.
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yeti the yeti- “when no one else does, believe in yourself.”
geoffrey the giraffe – “giraffes are awesome, i am awesome, therefore i am giraffe.”
marty the zebra – “life is not all black and white.”
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Dec14
managing.
our one and only whole group shot.
while some may appear less than engaged
we are all really into it.
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so excited to receive my facebook stats for the group i manage
i’ve really made inroads and quadrupled our membership
it began with just one (me) and now has grown to four!
we may not be the most active
but we sure have that team spirit
and it’s clear
i was born to manage.
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Facebook Groups you manage:
love horrible made for tv movies
Public group
last active 12 years ago
4 members
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“management is above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.”
-henry mintzberg
Dec13
wonderland.
stopping by this amazing wonderland of a store
was like stepping right into willie wonka’s factory
all joy and color
sweets of every kind and shape and size
old favorites, new delightful unusual treats
happiest place in town
nothing was impossible.
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“Mr. Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds’ eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.”
-Roald Dahl, ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’.
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