Category Archives: Other peoples words

Year in Review: August 2010

“We are forced to live as if we are free.” John Gray in the movie “Straw Dogs”   Journal Entries, Dreams and a Poem August 1 All day on applications online. I am officially unemployed. August 2 I went out … Continue reading

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Year in Review: March 2010

March was a busy month with a lot on its strange and springy mind. March 1 – March 31 We started our new class calendar. We thought of six things (watermelon, shamrock, butterfly, fire hat, rainbow, and heart) and made … Continue reading

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Year in Review: February 2010

I My Life At the coop school, my shrinking class was planning a garden project, and I was doing a lot of writing and thinking about my work with children. February is often for me a  passage way that connects … Continue reading

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A Strange Introduction to a Truly Odd Tale

Promantia And they also tell the story of Papadiabolous the Devil and his company, and of two of the hidden lives of Finnegan;  and how it is not always serious to die, the first time it happens. Here is one … Continue reading

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Two Worlds Touch Here: The End of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy

“Two worlds touch here. You think men have power to call forth what they will? Evoke a world, awake or sleeping? Make it breathe and then set out upon it figures which a glass gives back or which the sun … Continue reading

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