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When I slow down...
I know I'm sick, which is the only reason that I've slowed down enough to read all my email this afternoon, but I am really emotionally stirred by this:
"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.">vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf
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Unedited Pathos in the Poetry
Found this abandoned, anonymous - clearly a scribbled first draft - in my classroom.
Reproduced here for the sharing - spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and spacing intact.
This moves me and makes me wince and laugh together -- and remember the terrible beauty of 13....
Author achieves intention.
And makes me inspired to write some of my own? ( Read more... ) -
eyes crusted shut...
blech. Have been sick forever, well for 2 weeks. That's maybe not forever, but it is when you're a sagittarius ( Read more... ) -
and then....
I remember why I am on this planet and teaching kids while I'm here ( Read more... ) -
Hmmm.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/
My homework assignment first day back all staff.
skin tone and race.
weight and disability were no surprise -- sexuality though? 3% baby!
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Apologies
I recently realized that part of why I have drifted from lj (aside from the injured hand and no easy internet at home -- the primary villains :D) is because I am so not caught up with people's lives that I try to read my friends page and don't know whats going on with more distant folks, so I get daunted and gave up ( Read more... ) -
billiard ball?
It's been a while.
6 mos. and counting with not being able to really use the right hand without fucking it up more. And not pissed about it today, because i'm actually asking for help with the narrative part of my end of the year evaluations
(a feart-felt prayer of thanks to all the tops who tried to make me not lose my mind over these evals, from ( Read more... )
