My new old skates are in the backseat with a few paintings, a big scarf, and an emergency car kit. The bike is in the trunk, but I think it’ll be between me and the road tomorrow if the rain lets up. Rain? Happy holidays from frosty—scratch that—moist Minnesota.
The strangest semester ever just wrapped up. It was an interesting amalgamation of the crazy-weird politics of academia and the greatness of good people. I count myself lucky to have become privy to the extremes of both recently, particularly to my friends (and family). I’d say good people are life. Surround yourself with kindred lovelies.
Wait. Out the window! What is that? The rain just turned into snow! A Christmas miracle?! I’m still going to ride my bike…
So I made myself this blog months ago, before things started rolling the way they have the last couple of months, but I never really made a post. So I’ll try to summarize:
Mushrooms, ))<>((, tea, atomic bombs, bugs, swings, control boards, glue, music, apples, dancing, thesis, cookies, blankets, funs, life skills, sniffing wars, ….
…this is great and all, but it is really snowing out. I’ve gotta go.
Merry Christmas. Happy Thursday. Hugs and love. Funs.
G
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Subject: Things I like that other people have said or sung or written
Most of my fantasies...are to be of use...to be of some hard, simple, undeniable use. —Bill Callahan of Smog
Nothing is finished. Nothing is perfect. —Frankie Munoz
A good pot, like a good person, reveals itself gradually through continued contact over long periods of time. —Warren Mackenzie
Most of my fantasies...are to be of use...to be of some hard, simple, undeniable use. —Bill Callahan of Smog
Nothing is finished. Nothing is perfect. —Frankie Munoz
A good pot, like a good person, reveals itself gradually through continued contact over long periods of time. —Warren Mackenzie
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. —Leonardo da Vinci
Too often we...enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. —John F. Kennedy
I may walk slow, but I never walk back. —Abraham Lincoln
Poetry is a table on which one places interesting things one has found on one's walks: a pebble, a rusty nail, a strangely shaped root, the corner of a torn photograph. A poet's tabletops are littered with gritty little snapshots of life well-lived, strewn with tender acoustic strums, pictures of the ocean, shaken maracas, mothers, fathers, arms. It's a beautiful display. —Charles Simic
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. —Albert Einstein
Mending something is different from fixing it. Fixing suggests that evidence of the problem will disappear. I see mending as a preservation of history and a proclamation of hope...we realize that we're better together than apart, and perhaps even stronger for the rip and the repair.—Susan Cooke Kittredge
Upon preparing for a final class fun quiz, I wanted to test the memories of some of my students by including a few basic Grace facts presented upon our first meeting six and a half months ago. I asked for help, "Trevor, what is an interesting fact about me?" and he replied ending on a comical note of query, "Every day that goes by you fall more deeply in love with pockets?" Yes. Yes that is true.
Subject: Music Staples
Iron & Wine “Trapeze Swinger”
The Innocence Mission “The Lakes of Canada” and “Tomorrow on the Runway”
Kings of Convenience “I Don't Know What I Can Save You From”
Hem “Half Acre”
Nick Drake “Cello Song”
Over the Rhine “Suitcase”
Sufjan Stevens “Casimir Pulaski Day” and “For the Widows In Paradise, for the Fatherless In Ypsilanti” and “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.”
Gillian Welch “I Dream A Highway”
Matt Pond PA “Last Song”
Feist “Secret Heart”
William Oldham “All These Viscous Dogs”
Really Random Notes:
March 20, 2006
Jump around. Spin a bit.
April 15, 2006
If you want a gummi worm, you have to say, "Peep peep peep."
April 24, 2006
Sometimes, you can tell the goodness of a day by what you ate during it.
Today:
11am- Apple dumpling with ice cream
12pm- Chicken and vegetables
7pm- Curry chicken with rice and German chocolate cake
11:59pm- Mint brownie with…what else…ice cream
A wee bit more chicken than usual, but alack, this day must have been glorious. It was.
June 25, 2006
John, he makes great custom apple pies.
John, he makes great custom amplifiers.
Both good things. One of them I heard. One the truth.
Words I've recently come across and subsequently looked up
bandicoot
labile
theine
cuckold
Graafian follicle
promontory
chalaza
Poetry is a table on which one places interesting things one has found on one's walks: a pebble, a rusty nail, a strangely shaped root, the corner of a torn photograph. A poet's tabletops are littered with gritty little snapshots of life well-lived, strewn with tender acoustic strums, pictures of the ocean, shaken maracas, mothers, fathers, arms. It's a beautiful display. —Charles Simic
It costs nothing to be honest, loyal, and true. —The Avett Brothers
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. —Albert Einstein
Mending something is different from fixing it. Fixing suggests that evidence of the problem will disappear. I see mending as a preservation of history and a proclamation of hope...we realize that we're better together than apart, and perhaps even stronger for the rip and the repair.—Susan Cooke Kittredge
Upon preparing for a final class fun quiz, I wanted to test the memories of some of my students by including a few basic Grace facts presented upon our first meeting six and a half months ago. I asked for help, "Trevor, what is an interesting fact about me?" and he replied ending on a comical note of query, "Every day that goes by you fall more deeply in love with pockets?" Yes. Yes that is true.
Subject: Music Staples
Iron & Wine “Trapeze Swinger”
The Innocence Mission “The Lakes of Canada” and “Tomorrow on the Runway”
Kings of Convenience “I Don't Know What I Can Save You From”
Hem “Half Acre”
Nick Drake “Cello Song”
Over the Rhine “Suitcase”
Sufjan Stevens “Casimir Pulaski Day” and “For the Widows In Paradise, for the Fatherless In Ypsilanti” and “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.”
Gillian Welch “I Dream A Highway”
Matt Pond PA “Last Song”
Feist “Secret Heart”
William Oldham “All These Viscous Dogs”
Really Random Notes:
March 20, 2006
Jump around. Spin a bit.
April 15, 2006
If you want a gummi worm, you have to say, "Peep peep peep."
April 24, 2006
Sometimes, you can tell the goodness of a day by what you ate during it.
Today:
11am- Apple dumpling with ice cream
12pm- Chicken and vegetables
7pm- Curry chicken with rice and German chocolate cake
11:59pm- Mint brownie with…what else…ice cream
A wee bit more chicken than usual, but alack, this day must have been glorious. It was.
June 25, 2006
John, he makes great custom apple pies.
John, he makes great custom amplifiers.
Both good things. One of them I heard. One the truth.
Words I've recently come across and subsequently looked up
bandicoot
labile
theine
cuckold
Graafian follicle
promontory
chalaza
autochrome
Smetana
benthic
eschatology
xeriscaping
Lystrosaurus