July 2010
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May 2010
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March 2010
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February 2010
1 post
New York Times: "Playing to Learn" by Susan Engel →
margartia:
marthaq:
“Imagine, for instance, a third-grade classroom that was free of the laundry list of goals currently harnessing our teachers and students, and that was devoted instead to just a few narrowly defined and deeply focused goals.
In this classroom, children would spend two hours each day hearing stories read aloud, reading aloud themselves, telling stories to one another and...
January 2010
2 posts
November 2009
4 posts
October 2009
3 posts
Regina Spektor Will Pen Music for Landau's... →
reginaology:
“Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor, known for plucky and searching alt pop songs, will collaborate with playwright-director Tina Landau and lyricist Michael Korie to create a Broadway-aimed musical, Beauty, a new riff on ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ to be produced by Elephant Eye Theatrical.”
August 2009
1 post
stolen, lost, gone
things that i have lost this summer: two handles of cheap vodka, my (heretofore) unshakable belief in the power and importance of loving someone, my ipod, a very nice grey scoop neck tank top with cloth flowers on it, and immense amounts of motivation.
where, exactly, i have to wonder, did summer go? in a flutter of police reports, excellent books and paychecks, the great, chaotic,...
July 2009
4 posts
WORDS ABOUT THIS SUMMER THUS FAR
camping, questions, luau, poncho, pirates, touchscreen, beer, new friends, hopeless romanticism, reevaluation, pasta salad, rain, thunderstorms, police, hot dogs, ice cream, more rain, the beach at night, horseshoe crabs, family, hilarity, lust, cigarettes, bangs, diary of a nymphomaniac, tension, freckles, not many poems, broken cameras, lazy, quiet, loud, uncertain, flat tires, exercise.
and...
June 2009
9 posts
oldfilmsflicker:
Yann Tiersen vs. The Beach Boys...
May 2009
22 posts
“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have...”
– Max Ehrmann
“If one will just be still, shut up and listen—lo, behold, the world’ll sift...”
– Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (via reesh)
April 2009
20 posts
