def poetry jam season 6

everyone should hear these...

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day 322: otherwise car-busy streets were occupied by mobs of pedestrians and pandas somehow escaped the zoo.

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day 322: chronicles of snowmageddon/snOMG/snowpocalypse dc 2010.

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day 321: snOMG 2010 begins...and the city will definitely shut down for the weekend. sad.

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day 320: our window in g'town...love is a battlefield.

ron clark academy

i was introduced to the ron clark academy today...and was screaming with pure excitement about the idea of education that looks like this. if you haven't been exposed, please check it out.

it's pretty amazing how articulate these kids are and how successful this style of teaching is.

'my space'

'we are obsessed with people getting to know us, assuming they'll keep it at a distance...and this is our problem: we can't deal with the face-to-face, so we let technology replace the space that people are supposed to feel...let's face it, we are internally afraid of what's real.'

- shannon matesky, season 6 def poetry jam

i've always been a fan of russell simmons presents def poetry jam, so i decided to add it to my my netflix queue. spoken word poetry is incredibly powerful to me and something always resonates with me when i listen. and while this post goes against the message, it's something to think about. something, at least, that i've been thinking about in the last few weeks that i've taken a social-networking break...and substituting it for real, face-to-face, human interaction. it's sort of like a breath of fresh air.

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day 319: honestly, the best banana bread i have ever had...i think i've found my calling.

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thinking spring...

day 318: but it's actually snowing...

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day 317: a pit stop to answer my phone mid-commute.

(taken 2.1.10)

core.

when we take care of the things at the center of our lives first, then the rest of our life falls into place in a way that makes sense to us.

- kathryn budig

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day 316: morning coffee at dean and deluca after the big snow and before the big melt.

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day 315: a perfect snow day...in my jammies all day, until mara called for trouble in the evening.

"love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. when you dare to reveal yourself fully. when you dare to be vulnerable."

- Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist and columnist via The Daily Love.

don't forget.

you are unique. you are amazing. you are beautiful.

thank you, peggy mulqueen.

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day 314: betty crocker has taken me over. two nights of banana bread and another night of oatmeal raisin cookies...from scratch.

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day 313: the last of the bananas...only after 2 nights in a row of baking.

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day 312: mara is proud of her meows.

(taken 1.27.10)

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day 311: today, a lot of time was spent on metrobus.

(taken 1.26.10)

please pardon the brief lapse in posting.


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