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lewbasnight hat gerebloggt oldtobegin“Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.
A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to stand alone.
A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.”— Osho (via awakeningapril) Lädt... -
On his one five minute phone call each candidate is given within 48 hours of their arrival, M specifically instructed me to begin seriously wedding planning—which I took to mean both “plan the wedding” and “this is worse than when you made me look at Pinterest”—which we had already talked about anyway, but it was nice to know he was thinking about it while doing pushups in the mud or whatever. Anyway, in a fit of… something? I picked up a Martha Stewart Wedding Issue at Shaw’s when I went to get seltzer for me and bacon for my grandmother, who only eats bacon when you put it in front of her but then eats ALL your bacon, and the magazine was a big mistake because now I feel kind of faint even though I know I don’t want/need/have time for any of this shit.
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Do you know what Maker Faire is? It’s a celebration of building treasures with other people’s … you know. To see live streaming coverage of this event, visit http://bit.ly/18ThYsx.
Don’t say we didn’t tell you.
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Rather than teach 8th grade again next year I'm moving to 7th.
I found out this morning about the switch and have since experienced the strangest mix of emotions. Long story short: the 7th grade team this year has become toxic so they need to mix them up and interject some positivity. (And probably force some folks out.) The team was also very weak in the language arts department and based on the strength of my instruction he wants to move me down to partner with another ELA teacher who they can’t get to retire. Which means I’ll be carrying the load a bit.
It’s also a gift of sorts since my principal doesn’t want me to have to deal with the mess that is the current 7th grade group so early in my career.
So while I’m devastated to leave a few of my teammates behind (one is moving with me), and to give up all of the fun stuff that comes with teaching 8th graders, I’m also really flattered and a little excited.
Cue the weird mix of smiling and sobbing here.
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Today on The Worst, we interviewed megawatt comedian Kyle Kinane.
Do different parts of the country have different senses of humor?
Somewhat. It’s ironic that playing in some of the more conservative areas like Texas or Arizona can be more fun because they’re not hung up on political correctness. They came to a comedy show to laugh, and check their issues at the door. They’ll laugh at themselves even if it’s some liberal putz from LA because they know why they came to a comedy club. I’ve been surprised after shows in Phoenix and Dallas, because instead of getting defensive about their differing views, they just laugh because they know it’s okay to do that in a comedy club. Sometimes you get in front of a “liberal” audience and they have so many mental hurdles set up before they can laugh at something.
How freeing is bombing? Do you have to fail big to win big, so to speak?
It’s freeing because it reminds me that I’m never done with comedy. There’s no sense of figuring it out. Bombing is the tap on the shoulder that says “See? This is still a part of it.”
You never perfect comedy, which is what makes it the perfect lifestyle. There’s no end point. You just keep studying.Ol’ Ned done interviewed me.
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Highlights from the letters my 8th graders gave me...
“You were like a mom to me. If I have no one, I know I have you.”
“Three pages and 80 lines won’t explain to you how much you mean to me, but you know.”
“I look forward to coming to your class and learning. You have inspired me to improve my grades. And when I say have a good day when I leave your class it’s because you deserve it. I just want you to know that all of the students love you and you are one of the best things to happen to _____ Middle School in a long time.”
“I know one day you will be a great mom.”
“You have become my favorite teacher and let’s be honest, we didn’t see that coming.” -from the girl who once told me she wished there were two reading teachers so she didn’t have to have me.
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