December 2010
20 posts
Lines for Winter
Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself— inside the dome of dark or under the cracking white of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as it gets cold tell yourself what you know which is nothing but the tune your bones play as you keep going. And you will be able for once to lie down under...
Soy Milk: A Bowl of Froot Loops in Every Glass →
an analysis of my 4 favorite movies has led me to the following conclusion about my tastes in film.
1. must involve travel
2. must be shot beautifully
3. must touch on some deep emotion or insecurity within me
4. must have a bitchin soundtrack.
if you can identify, the following movies are for you.
almost famous
away we go
the darjeeling limited
elizabethtown.
just lovely.
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English →
Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely Attractive. Conflate To blend together. Cynosure A focal point of admiration. Dalliance A brief love affair. Demesne Dominion, territory. Demure Shy and reserved....
Watchahhhh this woman is so sexy and talented. i am in love ;) ;)
amyrad:
holiday talents :)
listening to joni mitchell during christmas
i wish i had a river
of frozen silver gleaming by my door
to match the sweet silver longing that weaves its way
through the cracks in my skin
and into the most secret places of my heart
even if i tried to skate away
i’d just sink to the bottom.
cuz it don’t snow here
it stays pretty green
but not the green of life and possibility
no
and those of us with silver in our souls
...
Cheesecake Pastries, aka the easiest thing i could...
This one’s for you Tatum ;)
Ingredients
2 tubes crescent rolls
1 can pie filling
1 pkg cream cheese
1 egg, separated
1 cup powdered sugar
Directions
Preheat oven to 350.
Beat the cream cheese, egg yolk, and powdered sugar together.
Spread out the crescent rolls.
Spoon a tablespoon of cream cheese mixture and a tablespoon of pie filling onto the wide end of the dough.
Fold in the...
Why Hello, Narnia. →
this is definitely going in my future house for my future kids.
4th graders are awesome, part deux.
A song parody. To the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Kitty, kitty on the chair
please don’t shed all of your hair
if you do you will be bare
i’ve missed you like you won’t know
kitty, kitty in the sky
why did you run by that car.
sad, but still awesome.
4th graders are awesome.
So my intern class has to write literature reflections as part of their homework. These consist of about a paragraph of response to anything they’ve read: a book, a chapter of a book, an article, etc. They’ve been doing them all semester, so by now they’re pretty routine.
Yesterday, as the teacher and I were checking that the students had done their reflections, one...
