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Life is going by too fast…
Source: Thank you Not Perfect Me Related Posts: Me Too… Overcoming Obstacles… T.G.I.F. It’s time for… Today will be… You just know it has been a long week… With teamwork, anything is possible…
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Voting Booths Are Re-Open!
My voting booths are opening again to rename my blog. (Just kidding!) Yet, if you missed this huge event (hyperbole squared) and can’t wait to learn more, you can find details here and here. Anake...
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Monday Mantra: Cleaning Piece III
This one made me think. (And I averted my eyes away from the double negative as I re-read this 3x.) If you are curious about Yoko Ono’s Cleaning Piece I, II and IV (I was), you’ll find them @...
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What I regret most in my life are failures of…
READ THIS. You will not be disappointed. It started my day off on the right foot. From George Saunders’ 2013 “Advice to Graduates” commencement speech @ Syracuse University: “…Now, one useful thing...
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Repeat after me: “Plimpplampplettere”
Related Posts: duende; saudade; wabi-sabi; l’esprit de l’escalier; Repeat after me: “Babí léto” Source: wordstuck. (Sept. 22, 2013 Note: See comments below. Kiwi has noted that there is no such word...
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Get in there and learn baby, NOW.
The tortured soul lives alone. 90-year Ed Bray served in WW II and served in Normandy. He’s covered this up for 80 years. Join me in being inspired by Mr. Bray. I was moved…
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Are you getting lapped?
Tim Sanders: If You Don’t Expand This Annually, You Are Getting Lapped: Here’s the point: If you aren’t expanding your resume every year, you are likely being getting lapped in the sport of business...
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The most impressive students I had over my 30 years of teaching were…
…The most impressive students I had over my 30 years of university teaching were those I encountered when I first began, in the early 1970s, who almost all turned out to have been put through Catholic...
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To Live & Learn
I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of non-feeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way...
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Calling all English Majors: [...]?
1) There’s: “ … “ 2) There’s: ” / “ 3) There’s: “[...]“ or 1) The Ellipsis: The ellipsis mark consists of three periods separated by spaces. When used in the middle of a sentence, it is almost always...
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Monday Mantra: Go Deep
“I have, in my life, turned pages a million times more often than I have read them, and always derived from turning pages at least as much pleasure and real intellectual enjoyment as from reading....
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He was in love with the world
His closest friends this week marveled at the depth of the impression he made on all whose lives he touched. “He’d make you feel you were better than you believed—smarter, funnier, more alive…” A...
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Mommy!
He headed for the school still wrapped in the warmth of this bed, the taste of cereal in his mouth, tightly holding the hand just above his head, walking as quickly as he could, taking two steps for...
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The Answer. Right Here.
“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and...
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Riding Metro-North. With our Kids.
It’s 5:25 am. A dark, windless morning. 14° F. I’m stepping quickly in my 1/2 mile walk to the station. Suit. Top Coat. Gloves. Black lace-ups. No boots. Fear of: Black ice + Tumble = Face plant. My...
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As brightness, into brightness
You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness, into brightness — Sarah Manguso, Two Kinds of Decay Credits: Photograph – Brown Dress with White Dots. Quote –...
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Reading. Writing.
“A girl writes in a notebook she collected from a garbage dump in Lahore, Pakistan. Thousands of children pick recyclable items from waste dumping points to earn a living for their families.” K.M....
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Riding Metro-North S/N. With Crawford.
Miracles. The Show plays same time daily. Pre-dawn in a tight band around 4:30 am. Zeke‘s bred to hunt birds. His Dad, to wake free of alarms. I peek out from under the covers, and voila. 6 hours of...
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She’s 15.
The Magic of a Train To the Editor: Re “Our Trouble With Trains,” by Richard White (Op-Ed, May 19): I love trains. I live in the suburbs of Chicago, and I ride the commuter train to and from my high...
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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
Too often, convinced of our own intelligence, we stay in a comfort zone that ensures that we never feel stupid (and are never challenged to learn or reconsider what we know). It obscures from view...
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