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"I didn’t call myself anything. I was more than a teacher. And less. In the high school classroom you are a drill sergeant, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a traffic ( Read more... ) -
Crazy Art Week
I was reflecting, this afternoon,
on my crazy week of mad-dash art classes,
and I started doing the math:
I taught 7 art classes
at 5 different locations
in 3 separate towns
with a grand total of 280 students...
all in the last 4 days.
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One of my new favorite lines:
"Yet in [his] face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he preceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth."
From The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." ~Leonardo da Vinci
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thought of the day:
transformations are never easy
carbon to diamonds
clay to vessel
sand to pearl
metal to gold
who i was to who i will be -
rejoice
in open fields of wild flowers ( Read more... ) -
I made a promise.
"What Lord of the Rings Character are you ( Read more... ) -
yeah, I'm that teacher
I teach 3 classes on Tuesday nights ( Read more... ) -
This might only be funny because it's so late...
but I came across something I wrote during the most intense of my art show preparations. It made me laugh, so I'm recording it here again for posterity.
Greeting from the Tower.
Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm an artist/princess/spy/poet/hippie. (Kind of like when you were a kid and wanted to be a mermaid/artist/veterinarian/hot air balloon ( Read more... ) -
A week in the life of an art teacher:
For your (and my) general amusement, a list of things I've heard, said, or seen this week. I can pretty much guarantee you'd only find these in the life of an art teacher.
"In what other job can you write off feathers, masks, and dried beans as a legitimate expense?" - Me, leaving the store with supplies for my Art Around the World class. We were ( Read more... )