thinking thursday.
Every Thursday, I thought I would gather my thoughts. Doing it more than once a week is unthinkable (har-de-har-har), so every Thursday, a few links I've discovered, things I'm thinking about. And, of course, a link somewhere to Johnny Depp. (Where I can follow the serendipitous thread I followed to …
Everything is music.
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo. Listen. Listen. The composer says: “Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit)… …
poetry wednesday.
If You Knew -Ellen Bass What if you knew you'd be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them, giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palm, brush your fingertips along the life line's crease. When a …
Stay in school. Study hard. Set goals for yourself.
I'm disappointed in us. The adults of this country are letting partisan politics cloud our judgment. We are letting fear stand in the place of sense; we are arguing when we need to be listening. Ultimately, we are using children as pawns. Who is our objection serving? I hear you, …
Tile-a-palooza!
For months I've wandered around the U.S. reading from Life is a Verb and sometimes leaving behind a gorgeous small tile made by an artist in Texas. Rachel Bates has now made these tiles available in her online store for all of us! Do you have a wall? Perhaps it's …
Choosing Thomas, part 2.
Many of you wrote about the power of the recent Dallas Morning News story, Choosing Thomas. The final installment of journalist Lee Hancock's story about Thomas' life–and death–is published in today's paper and has meaning for us all.
Magic still happens.
A few weeks ago, magic happened. You might remember a pig and chicken incident when Tess was in pre-K. Think "desire." That story begins: "To the naked eye, this might look like picture of a little plastic pig and a little plastic chicken. But it is not. In fact, you …
