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"Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land,
waiting to fly in the air."
-Carl Sandburg
"Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit,-- a thing to be valued in and of itself, like art or poetry."
-Oswald Veblen, 1924
"I believe happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Ghandi
from
The Writer’s Life
Alice Walker, 2003
During those times
I possess the imagination to ignore
The chaos
I live
The writer’s life:
I lie in bed
Gazing out
The window.
To my right
I notice
My neighbor
Is always painting
And repainting
His house.
To my left
My other neighbor
Speaks of too much shade
Of tearing
Out
Our trees.
Sometimes
I paint
My house
Orange & apricot
Butterscotch & plum—
Sometimes
I speak up
To save
The trees.
The days
I like best
Have
Meditation
Walks on the beach
Picnics in the
Hammock
That overlooks
The sea.
Hiking in the hills
Leaning on
Our
Walking sticks.
Writers perfect
The art
Of doing nothing
So beautifully.
We know
If there is
A butterfly
Anywhere
For miles
Around
It will come
Hover
& maybe
Land
On our head.
If there is a bird
Even flying aimless
In the next
County
It will not only
Appear
Where we are
But sing.
If there is
A story
It will
Cough
In the middle
Of our
Lazy
Day
Only once
Maybe more
& announce
Itself.
Harlem
Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raison in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Magic
Shel Silverstein
Sandra's seen a leprechaun,
Eddie touched a troll,
Laurie danced with witches once,
Charlie found some goblins' gold.
Donald heard a mermaid sing.
Susy spied an elf,
But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself.
I ♥ Stand Up Comedy! 80s Movies!A Little Princess (my daughter and I agree, the best of all time!), LIfe is Beautiful (LOVE this movie even though I always cry through the last half), The Shawshank Redemption, Stand & Deliver (of course, I'm a math teacher), The Great Debators, Serendipity (what can I say, I'm a sucker for a good love story), Sabrina (the original with Audrey Hepburn), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (even though I've only seen it one time), A Cinderella Story (made me cry in the movie theater with my daughter), Legally Blonde (hehe), Aladdin, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory :), Lincense to Drive!!!, Adventures in Babysitting, Death Becomes Her (hehe), The Sandlot (for-ev-er),........ and the list goes on
HOUSE!!!! Gilmore Girls! HGTV, especially Deserving Design, The History Channel, CNN for news, .....
My favorite books are "Tis," "Angela's Ashes," and "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt, "Mama Day" by Gloria Naylor, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to Alex Haley, "Hoop Roots" by John Edgar Wideman, "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquirel, "Anthem" by Ayn Rand, "Lincoln" by Gore Vidal, "King Lear" by Shakespeare, "A Wealth of Wisdom" edited by Camille O. Cosby and Renee Poussaint, and most recently "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert.
My mom and my brothers, all four of 'em.
My teachers- Ms. Thompson, Ms. Galenic, Ms. Wilson, Mr. Schilling, Ms. Vorhies, Ms. Howse, Ms. Zimmerman, Ms. Braggs, Ms. Kliewer, Ms. Wogee, Ms. Riggenbach, Ms. Poalillo, Ms. Spohnhauer and Ms. Peoples.