OMIGOD YOU GUISE: TEACHER EPIPHANY
WOULDN’T IT BE AWESOME TO DO A THEMATIC UNIT WITH “HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON” AND “THE LITTLE PRINCE.”
Think about it:
TRAINING!?
TAMING!!?
And then THEN we can pile on hero’s quest and coming of age themes!
Anonthing
words, dreams, boys, lots of boys, knitting, writing, books, blooms and foods, the little things, feminism, whimsy, a little bit of attitude, faith, and all the pensive, poetic, and otherwise thoughts a girl wishes she could share out loud with the world…
What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (via creatingaquietmind)
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We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.
There’s a Library in my Library (top, detail), by sweetington
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Writing things down enforces slowness, and by extension, thoughtfulness.
Elizabeth Spiers on keeping a notebook in the digital age. Complement with Joan Didion on keeping a notebook, Virginia Woolf on keeping a diary, and Mary Gordon on writing by hand. (via explore-blog)
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
Pema Chödrön (via julie911)
(via quote-book)
Cute!
Anyone know the source? When I drag it to google it just brings me back to pinterest.
