“most of us can read the writing on the wall;
we just assume it’s addressed to someone else.”
-ivern ball
Oct6
Tag Archives: life
Oct1
it’s saturday, another perfect day for a joyride.
amelia earhart and eleanor roosevelt
once sneaked (yes, sneaked) out of a white house event,
commandeered an airplane, and went on a joyride to baltimore.
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“if you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
-toni morrison
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credit: mental floss magazine
Sep30
puddles, meetings, moments.
“the real test of friendship is
can you literally do nothing with the other person?
can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
-eugene kennedy
Sep29
“keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.” -wislawa szymborska
very proud of my brother, scott today.
Solving Kids’ Cancer
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Make September Gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
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#collaboration #innovation #research #pediatricbraintumors #childhoodcancer
http://www.solvingkidscancer.org/…/cuttingedgeoncolyticvirus
Sep24
sick.
onward.
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“there is one consolation in being sick;
and that is the possibility that
you may recover to a better state
than you were ever in before.”
-henry david thoreau
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image credit: google images
Sep22
let things go.
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credit: wordporn
Sep19
“there are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” ~g.k. chesterton
what a beautiful morning to help
at the annual
juvenile diabetes research foundation event
and
to take a great walk after
right in the mix with
dogs, babies, strollers, scooters, families,
friends, teams, singles, wagons and trees
and then come to the end
very happy to have been a part of it all.
“we are all here on earth to help others;
what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.”
-w.h. auden
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photo credit: steve townsend
Sep14
organization.
to do list – style a:
play with the ponies 1.
pack the cars. 2.
go to bed 3.
get in the car to go on vacation 4.
do fun things 5.
—
a major contrast in approaches
both with the same desired outcome
two grandies
each with their own
style of list
and
way of getting ready
and
organizing things
to go on a trip.
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to do list – style b:
(loose translation):
‘go around and around in a twisty circle and get some stuff done
and not some other stuff and then hide for a while
and eat something you find outside
and then get in the car to go on vacation and do fun things.’
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(i am more of a ‘b-list style’ of organizer. what about you – a or b?)
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“the process and organization leading up to cooking the egg
can tell you a lot about the cook.”
-david chang
Sep9
my tribe.
i knew it.
i was sure that i had found my tribe
with the arrival of my pre-kinders.
as a follow up to yesterday’s story
(where i discovered that i was a nelipot),
all it took was one recess
for me to find
a fellow
barefoot member
among us.
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“each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.”
-john hanning speke
Sep8
n is for nelipot.
today, as i was walking out to meet our parents and children (most of them for the very first time), at our pre-kindergarten orientation, i noticed that one of my sandals suddenly felt very loose. in a twist of perfect universal timing, it was irreparably broken. i experimented with walking in it, but wasn’t able to do so without dramatically dragging my foot along, so i took them both off.
while taking off my sandals i noticed what i thought was a water mark of unknown origin on the side of my shirt, and that i imagined would ‘quickly dry’ but was actually a grease stain of unknown origin, that happened somewhere between my car and my school and which in fact ‘never dried.’
when i lifted my head up from my sandal removal, i noticed that the entire underside of my hair was now dripping wet, and i was breaking out into some sort of a heat rash on the back of my neck, as the temperature had quickly risen into the humid 90ish degree range.
my daughter texted to see how the day was going and when i updated her she replied,”it seems like i’ve had a text like this from you before.” yes, she might very well be right, as we’ve known each other since the moment she was born, and have certainly survived more than one misadventure in our time.
once the families were settled into our room, i presented my part of the orientation barefoot, greasy, sweaty, and rash-y, the parents were chatty and friendly, and the children were excited and happy.
i realized that one of my hopes this year is to show and teach my kinders to see mishaps more as simple misadventures, to take them as they come, while trying to make the best of them. i’m confident they’ll learn this in no time, as children naturally tend to be open, non-judgemental, and willing to let things, go just seeing what happens. and best of all – we have a new vocabulary word:
I didn't have my glasses on.... 