March 2011
1 post
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?
February 2011
5 posts
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.
Bow Tie Camera
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.Those who profess to favor freedom...”
– Frederick Douglass
“To the critic the work of art is simply a suggestion for a new work of his own,...”
– Oscar Wilde, 1890
“Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, animal...”
– D.H. Lawrence
January 2011
11 posts
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“When your phone is off, people tend to find a solution that is smarter than you...”
– Donald Miller
“Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and...”
– Mother Teresa
WatchElizabeth 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...
Compassion.
“Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that men feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends’ eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could have done it; when they give...
christmas break is gone.
student: “mr. spangle, spell iCup.”
me: “nope.”
…it’s good to be back.
December 2010
4 posts
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November 2010
8 posts
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I had forgotten how important, intimate, and inspiring Wendell Berry is.
“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more difficult than you thought.” This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an...
A second grade student told me that his favorite band was ICP today.
October 2010
22 posts
“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our...”
– Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country
Watch
Crocodile on Plane Kills 19 Passengers. →
crackerfinishingschool:
hi54lofirecords:
Someone get Samuel L Jackson on the plane. I think I have an idea for a new movie …
markschoneveld:
Stranger than fiction.
My favorite part? “The crocodile survived the crash before being cut up with a machete.” A MACHETE.
“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get...”
– Mark Vonnegut, M.D. From his new book, Just like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir.
It's always either Nickelback or Justin Beiber.
I asked a student to draw me a very complicated picture on a large piece of paper in order to buy some time while the principal did a little investigating about who punched who, etc. etc.
After giving the student directions, and supplying him with materials, I asked if he understood and told him I would turn on some music while he worked…
Student:...
How come every one of the students that I work with talks about Nickelback more than any other band?
Germazis
One of the classrooms I work in is doing a unit on U.S. Veterans and Military History. After discussing WW2 a little…
Student: “Imagine if the Germans and the Nazis had combined their forces together. They’d be Germazis!”
Me: …..
