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| summer is in the air. success.My heart races as I realize that the roses are blooming outside and the sky is finally blue. The rain is gone. I long to be. Be outside. I secretly wish I could play hookie tomorrow, and a little grin pushes up the sides of my mouth before I can control myself. I long to be done telling students to close their mouths and be silent. Pay attention. Finally I feel like I'm not behind in grading or lesson planning or that there surely must be something I'm behind in, and I must reign in my excitement and keep it simply at a sparkle in my eye or I may scare off the natives with my loud laughter. I might jump out up off the floor and start spinning. I want to paint my nails bright pink in celebration. Why have I not been swimming yet? When was the last time I saw the stars? Reckless joy fills me. Content and more. Excited. Eager. Ecstatic. Proud. School is nearly out. Done. My first year of teaching. | | |
| brennan manning again"A little child cannot do a bad coloring; nor can a child of God do bad prayer." | | |
| delightfully misplaced modifiers.-I learned to curl my hair online.
-I saw the newsboy throwing newspapers through my front window.
-After the game, Zeke insisted that he had not fouled his opponent on the bus.
-The crook was arrested after the bank had been robbed by the police.
-The member was expelled for being intoxicated by the president.
-While riding to Gettysburg on a scrap of brown paper, Lincoln wrote a famous speech.
-Rolling down the hill, Roxy was scared that the rocks would land on the campsite.
-Covered in wildflowers, Annie pondered the hillside's beauty.
-Amber watched the cow at the computer.
-Children who laugh rarely are shy.
-Girls who cheat rarely are sweet.
-We ate the lunch we had brought slowly.
-The green student's book lay on the desk.
-On her way home, Jan found a gold man's watch.
-I had to take down the shutters painting the house yesterday.
-The woman convinced the man with a bat to marry her. (my personal favorite. thanks, Dad!)
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| awkwardI feel awkward when: a)I have to sit in a restaurant for a long time without food.
b)I talk on the phone in front of other people.
c)People look at me as they cross by on the sidewalk.
d)People I don't know give me hugs.
e)People I don't know very well ask me what music I want to listen to. True. | | |
| Ragamuffin Gospel"The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find that I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason." -Brennan Manning | | |
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