We played a game today in 1st and 4th where the students were each assigned a different elaboration strategy and asked to write down an example of it. Then, I drew their examples out of a hat and read them out loud, asking teams to guess which strategies were being employed. I was unable to read the following cards out loud on account of my own ( Read more... )

I found a thick folder full of old drawings when I was at my parents' the other day. I took it home to sort through it (and, of course, shield its potentially mortifying contents from anyone who might happen upon it). It's filled with drawings people did for me along with my own. Shit. I remember every one; each its own private jet into ( Read more... )

There is a little fire inside
uncertain where to lend itself
or whether to at all

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Maybe the only love we allow ourselves to believe ( Read more... )

I am both infuriated and saddened by the way an intelligent, clear-minded, absolutely beautiful human being will completely lose their vision and sacrifice their health, their goals, and even their entire self-worth in the name of "love" -- a.k.a., infatuation ( Read more... )

Being just five years younger ( Read more... )

Sometimes I just want to pack up a couple of things / and go somewhere strange / and see what happens

Maybe then my hunger will be satiated for a couple of years
and I will feel wanted
like before

All of this
makes me want to crawl back into that
dank and musty hole
that makes me blind to myself
that leaves me naked, liberated
daring and terrible
at once

I don't know
why I let things so slowly
die
why I can't just peel the bandage
quickly so it
doesn't hurt for so long
maybe I still think things will heal
if I only
give them time
maybe they will

maybe you can change
maybe I