April 2011
105 posts
an accomplished morning
Feeling good. I crossed something off my spring/summer list today, making that my first [list] accomplishment for these seasons. Funny enough, it was the one thing I was kind of expecting not to happen at all. Design my tattoo. Now, I’m not sure that it’s something I’m going to do this year, or even at all. But I’ve always wanted to know — if I were going to get...
laurafrickenmaguire:
p1nky:
Mungo Jerry - In...
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have a meaning.”
– Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers (via thedreamist)
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via girlwithoutwings)
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”
– Bhagavada Gita (via tanha-dil)
Interactive Chalk Board: Believing in Boys →
interactivechalkboard:
This is just fantastic:
Two years ago, the principal at my school decided to try a new approach to helping these boys. He assembled the school’s lowest-scoring 9th graders in one class and decided that he and I would teach the class together. Our plan was simple: We would believe in them.
We are an unlikely pair. He’s 6-foot-6. I’m 5-foot-3. He has a Ph.D and began...
“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via libraryland)
comeonneileen:
Cruisin’ - Smokey Robinson
Yeah! Google got it right. Very cute video. Happy... →
Welcome to Holland
thediaryofagreeneyedgirl:
Found this gem in my mailbox today at school. Gives a whole new perspective.
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this…
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous trip - to...
And this is why I love Tina Fey. →
superstarling:
manicmagicdays-:
From PerezHilton.com Posted by jerkstore on Wednesday, 1/21/2009, 11:21 PM “In my opinion Tina Fey completely ruined SNL. The only reason she’s celebrated is because she’s a woman and an outspoken liberal. She has not a single funny bone in her body.”
Dear jerkstore,
Huzzah for the Truth Teller! Women in this country have been over-celebrated for too long....
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman (via oceanofmind) 