listen. carefully.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Student: “Mr. Spangle, have you ever seen Kitten Party?”
Me: “….(thinking about it), No, I dont think so.”
Student: “You’d love it. It’s super cute.”
Why did I have to even think about the answer to that question?
Bow Tie Camera
Follow my new travel log that I am beginning to keep for an upcoming cross country Greyhound trip I will be making in March. Suggest it to your friends.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.Those who profess to favor freedom yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder or lightning.
Frederick Douglass
To the critic the work of art is simply a suggestion for a new work of his own, that need not necessarily bear any obvious resemblance to the thing it criticizes. The one characteristic of a beautiful form is that one can put into it whatever one wishes, and see in it whatever one chooses to see; and the Beauty, that gives to creation its universal and aesthetic element, makes the critic a creator in his turn, and whispers of a thousand different things which were not present in the mind of him who carved the statue or painted the panel or graved the gem.
Oscar Wilde, 1890
Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, animal consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense. And it is the natural religious sense.
D.H. Lawrence
In an attempt to revive my writing discipline, I’ve decided to take a more childlike approach to my rough drafts. This is the outline to a non fiction piece I’m working on.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
When your phone is off, people tend to find a solution that is smarter than you could have come up with.
Donald Miller
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Mother Teresa
This would make the most amazing alarm for the mornings.
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, talks about nurturing creativity.
fake teeth.
me: “do you have any other brothers or sisters?”
student: “can i tel you brothers or sisters that i have in other states?”
me: “sure.”
student: “i’ve got two sisters in Nevada. they’ve got fake teeth.”
me: “they have fake teeth?”
student: “ya, cause they drink two cups of hot chocolate every night. (leaning in closer to me) i said, fake. teeth. “
Dune Buggy, Presidents of the United States of America.
I work with a student who, for some reason, does his best work when this song is playing on repeat.
Cold as Ice
by CEM
