February 2012
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lapetitejackie asked: (= lovely dolls you've made, do moriarty!
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somethingspontaneous asked: You are amazing. You're Sherlock doll is the cutest and you're knitting John a jumper? My God you are brilliant! :D
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January 2012
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The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a time for a...
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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Joy and Sorrow
Then a woman said, ‘Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.’
And he answered:
Your joy is sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the...
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As for Emma, she did not think she was in love with him. Love, she believed,...
– Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
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IX - E.E. Cummings
nearer: breath of my breath:take not thy tingling
limbs from me:make my pain their crazy meal
letting thy tigers of smooth sweetness steal
slowly in dumb blossoms of new mingling:
deeper: blood of my blood:with upwardering
swiftness plunge these leopards of white dream
in the glad flesh of my fear:carve an evilfringing
flower of madness on gritted lips
and on sprawled eyes squirming with...
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December 2011
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megan rosalarian gedris: One teachers approach to... →
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got…
We need more teachers like this. Bias starts young.