The numbing of love lost hums blackbirds into hypnosis.
I tucked my teeth into the creases of your hand,
Asked you to hide them until I was ready to eat again.
In the sockets of our eyes, we hide gold wedding bands.
We stuff our mouths with chocolate as we cross the border. In Morocco, women carry hot coals in their bare hands.
Searching for water, they make fires along the way.
Loving a boy at seventeen is different.
I loved him so hard my spine slid through my back.
If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can’t just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And we have to focus on what actually works.
Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.
It is beautiful snow, but you have to keep you self warm. Mommy use to live snow day. In the morning you get up look out the win door is cover with white color. you will feel like very peaceful because all white, but very cold. mommy have that feeling is 30 years ago. time gos fast, here your mother is a little old lady by her self. life is short take care your self and enjoy every moment in front you. have positive every second and make your self feel happy.
one day you reach mommy’s edge and look back you’ll feel very proud your self no regret the past.
I love you my little Goodnie, Take care your self and keep your self warm.
…changes in governance have generally failed to alter basic patterns of instruction. One reason may be that teachers are rarely consulted when leaders seek to change schooling. In its list of “Who Does What,” America 2000 (U.S. Department of Education, 1991) mentions the president, Congress, the governors, and the business community, finally remembering teachers as one of eleven groups “at the community level.” The caution here is obvious: Why should teachers buy into reform when they are an afterthought or are blamed as mossbacks, the source of the problem (McLaughlin, 1991)? Educational reform, as Elmore and McLaughlin (1988) say, is “steady work.” A key way to improve schooling is to start with the classroom and to attend to the teachers who do that steady work. By moving from the inside out, and not from top down, one may gain a better sense of how to improve instruction.
- School Governance in the United States: Historical Puzzles and Anomalies || David Tyack
People are allowed to be sad once in a while. Choosing happiness doesn’t mean that sadness disappears. You don’t have to be sad with me or understand why I am sad, but just let me be sad for a while before trying to fix me. Sometimes, sadness can fix people.
