February 2012
11 posts
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange...
– Herman Melville, Billy Budd
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...
– Franz Kafka (via adjectival)
You don’t care that I care.
January 2012
49 posts
Want to lose 7 pounds in a week in a half?
Student teach!
Aphorism
A high school classroom can be the funniest, most entertaining place in the world while simultaneously being the saddest, saddest place in the world.
Fight or Flight?
Flight.
I need you so much closer.
Take Up Your Cross
So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim onthe housetops.
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear himwho can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them...
I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...
– John Green (via theskybelow)
What am I going to do?
Shit Christians Say to Atheists
skyelinepigeon:
atheism-shitthatblows:
I don’t know if you’ve seen this video yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU7TdZSRcpo&feature=colike
But it’s rather accurate.
I’m glad you’re feeling well again!
Thank you very much for alerting me to this! It’s fantastic and absolutely true! Every single thing in the video has been said to me before.
hahaha yes.
Welp, I’m a...
How Great a Forest is Set Ablaze by Such a Small...
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they...
Seeing you meant nothing to someone that means a lot to you.
Psalm 103:8-12
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is...
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of...
– Plato (via accidentalism)
Long - long I read - and devoutly, devotedly I gazed. Rapidly and gloriously the...
– Edgar Allan Poe - The Oval Portrait. (via trevoredwards)
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake,...
– Kierkegaard (via walktothesky)
Things You Find While Intensely Cleaning Your Room
A record of some extremely 70’s fashioned, attractive men? The following image is a close-up of the most handsome.
Some more really good-haired men on a record.
I actually didn’t find this. I made it. NECKLACERAINBOW!
My third grade field-day shirt!!! Which now is covered in some mysterious black stuff at the bottom?
A bunch of these :) (he’ll kill me [love...
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The only thing you know about the things you don’t know is that you don’t know.
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LANTERN WASTE
Ok, I’m starting school tomorrow, and I’m student teaching a bunch of kids that are almost my age. AWESOME. THEY WILL TOTALLY NOT DISRESPECT ME, I’M SURE. THEY WILL TOTALLY LOVE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDIES AS MUCH AS I DO, I’M SURE OF IT.
As we used to nickname it in high school
PROJECT: HOT begins now.
I know. We were lame. I am lame. HEY.
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He pulled the boy closer. Just remember that the things you put into your head...
– Cormac Mccarthy, The Road, pg. 17