January 2011
8 posts
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with...
– Roald Dahl (via prettybooks)
Whitman Wednesday
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; 5Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the...
This is for you but it's also for everything.
I’m glad for your dissatisfaction, glad you settled for what you did, glad for the humor you can find in things or atleast those fleeting moments of wanting to quit it all - because your staying and settling and hiding away in smaller towns means that I met you; and, it means that those dissatisfactions and the things that follow are mine now, too. They are mine, too, now and we can run...
December 2010
7 posts
November 2010
4 posts
I don’t have a favorite place in this city. My favorite place is the whole city when I move through it. My shadow glides over the brick buildings like sun beams on grassy green lawns and I feel full of warmth and my heart beats out winks and blinks at the brilliance of it all.
Is it too much for me to say that maybe our shadows give those places life?
October 2010
1 post