This is three years old. I love it. Back in FL, looking for lizards!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
The Real Litany
I posted this kids reading The Litany by Billy Collins a few entries ago. I didn't catch, however, that it was supposed to by funny. Turns out, it is...
Summer Art Camp
I spent the month of August teaching in a summer art camp in Hyde Park. I only blogged about it a few times, but thanks to my little iPhone, I was able to take pictures of the kids' creations to share.
Here's where I found my ideas...
The Crafty Crow
Laugh, Paint, Create
Art is the Best Part of the Day
Paint Cut Paste
Art Projects for Kids
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| Dominique included a picture of me, in princess form, in her collage. |
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| The kids made sculptures out of recycles materials. |
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| I mixed sudsy water with some paint to make this bubble project. |
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| Here's what the bubble art looks like! |
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| Not sure what the story is with this one - part of a long mural the whole class made together - but it's funny. Move it! |
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| My commute home. |
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| Love these studies in abstract art. |
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| This one is a study on the effect things have on watercolor. I had the kids scribble in wax on the paper, paint over it, then dump salt on top. |
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| I love this one. The start of Kayell's Kandinski! Five years old and such an attention span! |
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| Kayell's completed Kandinski! |
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| It became the thing to do to bring in stuffed animals. Here, they are supervising the class. |
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| Jenna's Paul Klee. |
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| On the first day the kids made the circles by putting cups into paint and stamping the paper. They filled them in the next day! |
The Crafty Crow
Laugh, Paint, Create
Art is the Best Part of the Day
Paint Cut Paste
Art Projects for Kids
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Love and Friendship
Romantic relationships really are the cruelest of animals.
When you become close to someone in that way they invariably become your best friend too. So when it ends you have not only lost a love, but you have also lost your best friend.
It's really quite nasty.
When you become close to someone in that way they invariably become your best friend too. So when it ends you have not only lost a love, but you have also lost your best friend.
It's really quite nasty.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Wonder
I was listening to the radio while driving when a segment called "Striking a Chord" came on. There doesn't appear to be a link to the sound byte, unfortunately, but they were talking with singer Natalie Merchant about her song "Wonder". She explained that she had met a severely physically handicapped girl years ago, who talked about how her adoptive parents changed her life and gave her quality of life, and that she was able to do much more than anyone had ever expected her to do as a result of their love and support.
Merchant went on about how the song became an anthem of sorts, for many people. She attended a graduation at the Perkins School for the Blind, and a mother of one of the graduates came to her and told her about how she remembered sitting in the nursery in the middle of the night, in the dark, feeding her son who everyone told her would not be able to live a full life like a seeing child would. She would listen to the song while rocking her baby, and today, the kid has travelled the world and more.
Merchant had met doctors who have entered countless rooms to meet their child patients, and that many of them had the lyrics to "Wonder" posted above their beds. Another brain surgeon told her that she played the song while performing surgery.
Pretty cool how a child can inspire a song-writer who then goes onto to inspire so many more people.
Merchant went on about how the song became an anthem of sorts, for many people. She attended a graduation at the Perkins School for the Blind, and a mother of one of the graduates came to her and told her about how she remembered sitting in the nursery in the middle of the night, in the dark, feeding her son who everyone told her would not be able to live a full life like a seeing child would. She would listen to the song while rocking her baby, and today, the kid has travelled the world and more.
Merchant had met doctors who have entered countless rooms to meet their child patients, and that many of them had the lyrics to "Wonder" posted above their beds. Another brain surgeon told her that she played the song while performing surgery.
Pretty cool how a child can inspire a song-writer who then goes onto to inspire so many more people.
"Wonder"
Doctors have come from distant cities
Just to see me
Stand over my bed
Disbelieving what they're seeing
They say I must be one of the wonders
Of god's own creation
And as far as they can see they can offer
No explanation
Newspapers ask intimate questions
Want confessions
They reach into my head
To steal the glory of my story
They say I must be one of the wonders
Of god's own creation
And as far as they can see they can offer
No explanation
O, I believe
Fate smiled and destiny
Laughed as she came to my cradle
Know this child will be able
Laughed as my body she lifted
Know this child will be gifted
With love, with patience and with faith
She'll make her way
People see me
I'm a challenge to your balance
I'm over your heads
How I confound you and astound you
To know I must be one of the wonders
Of god's own creation
And as far as you can see you can offer me
No explanation
O, I believe
Fate smiled and destiny
Laughed as she came to my cradle
Know this child will be able
Laughed as she came to my mother
Know this child will not suffer
Laughed as my body she lifted
Know this child will be gifted
With love, with patience and with faith
She'll make her way
Doctors have come from distant cities
Just to see me
Stand over my bed
Disbelieving what they're seeing
They say I must be one of the wonders
Of god's own creation
And as far as they can see they can offer
No explanation
Newspapers ask intimate questions
Want confessions
They reach into my head
To steal the glory of my story
They say I must be one of the wonders
Of god's own creation
And as far as they can see they can offer
No explanation
O, I believe
Fate smiled and destiny
Laughed as she came to my cradle
Know this child will be able
Laughed as my body she lifted
Know this child will be gifted
With love, with patience and with faith
She'll make her way
People see me
I'm a challenge to your balance
I'm over your heads
How I confound you and astound you
To know I must be one of the wonders
Of god's own creation
And as far as you can see you can offer me
No explanation
O, I believe
Fate smiled and destiny
Laughed as she came to my cradle
Know this child will be able
Laughed as she came to my mother
Know this child will not suffer
Laughed as my body she lifted
Know this child will be gifted
With love, with patience and with faith
She'll make her way
Monday, August 23, 2010
Eat, Pray, Love
Liz, "I'm not looking for a man."
Felipe, "You don't need a man, Liz. You need a champion."
" I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
"There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts."
— Elizabeth Gilbert
"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?"
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
"You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight."
— Elizabeth Gilbert
"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
"They flank me-Depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They dont need to show their badges. I know these guys very well...then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity;but he always does that.
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
I may have to reread Eat, Pray, Love afterall.
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Felipe, "You don't need a man, Liz. You need a champion."
" I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
"There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts."
— Elizabeth Gilbert
"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?"
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
"You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight."
— Elizabeth Gilbert
"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
"They flank me-Depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They dont need to show their badges. I know these guys very well...then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity;but he always does that.
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
I may have to reread Eat, Pray, Love afterall.
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