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Madison!
Brian and I went to Madison this weekend so I could finally meet his awesome grandmother, Ellen. We had a whirlwind of a weekend, but it was great fun. In typical Midwestern fashion we ate way too much, and were sent home with another ton of goodies. :)
Here are some pictures, although I'm realizing now we didn't get any from the awesome Madison ( Read more... ) -
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Kindness
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
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Jane Jeong Trenka is my new shero
This is the voice in adoptee literature I've been waiting for whole life. This is the book I would write if she hadn't already written it. -
No More Dewey Decimal System?!
Check it out--a public library in Arizona is one of the first to abandon the Dewey decimal system....
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The gratitude list, revisited
This is what I do when I'm having a bad day, to remind me that things are not what they seem.
Its like that old Hebrew story of the king who challenged his jester to find him something that would make him happy when he was sad, and sad when he was happy. Stumped, the jester searched the kingdom top to bottom, until finally he came across an old man ( Read more... ) -
Today's Writer's Almanac...
Cherish
by Raymond Carver
From the window I see her bend to the roses
holding close to the bloom so as not to
prick her fingers. With the other hand she clips, pauses and
clips, more alone in the world
than I had known. She won't
look up, not now. She's alone
with roses and with something else I can only think, not
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Week 4
We're already on week 4 of the foundation course, and it feels like we've been together forever. With 30 people crammed in a tiny room with as many laptops, we are packed in like sardines, making it pretty easy to get to know people!
I think we're all feeling a drop in energy this week. I know I for one am just exhausted. It doesn't help that I ( Read more... ) -
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Materials: A rectangular wooden box containing the following 14 triangles:
· Two green right-angled isosceles triangles, each with a black line on the hypotenuse of each triangle
· Two gray right-angled scalene triangles, each with a black line on the hypotenuse
· Two yellow equilateral triangles, each with a black ( Read more... )