Lexie

bits of consumption (and sometimes my kitten-cat)

[gerrycanavan]

life is short, though I keep this from my children

[ten-hills-deactivated20221004]

This poem.

[thanosdawise]

Uzo Aduba (CFA’05) was one of BU’s top sprinters long before she became famous for her Emmy-winning turn as Crazy Eyes on Netflix’s hit show Orange Is the New Black. Aduba, here in 2002, ran 55 meters in 7.07 seconds against a long-standing record of 7.03. Photo courtesy of BU Athletics

[idhaveyouanytime]

Colour spot chart by William Benson, from ‘Principles of the science of colour’, 1868, facing p.27

[sarahsimplified]

Like/reblog this post if you’re a young teacher! Preferably in your 20s and in the first five years of teaching. I would love to follow more of you for support, reassurance, communication, etc.

[mrskaaay]

Yo, 28 (maybe not so young? I certainly don’t have almost-retired teachers fawning over my baby status) and starting my 6th year.

[notinthelessonplan]

Hi there! 26 years old, and it’s going to be four years of teaching in the fall for me.

[bornofnicety]

25 and starting my 4th year!

[theimprobablefiction]

Almost 26 and starting my 5th year in December. Hi! 👋🏻

[tinyteacher14]

26 and starting my 3rd year in the fall.

[hwenfayre]

Almost 25 and midway through 2nd year, cause Australia’s school year starts in January :P

[decadentpiratesong]

26 and 5th year in September!

[amyliz]

I read this and feel super behind… 29 and going into my second year of teaching

[dwendog]

26, and 1 month in.

[technoglobee]

22, and going into the first year!

[teacherofthethoughtfullest]

26, going into my first year! 😁

[inthemiddleofclass]

29 and about to start my 8th year.

[listenlearninspireteach]

28 just wrapped up my 5th year, going into 6th year 😄

[positivelypersistentteach]

Ageism! 

[fortunenglory]

Oh my god. Am I old? I’m officially old. Fuck.

[copperoranges-blog]

27! Finishing my fifth year! 

[micdotcom]

Related: Albuquerque is also providing mobile showers to the homeless — and they’re doing it in a wonderfully sustainable way.

[aprilnutter]

I just donated. Please consider donating too.

Link is here since MIC.COM cares more about traffic to their website rather than actually linking to the cause. 

DONATE

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[long-lost-opinions-deactivated2]

YES YES YES!!

[enterheavenalive]

I love this idea

[yrbff]

How We Treat Mental Illness Vs. How We Treat Physical Illness

[memewhore]

God, seriously.

[mooncalfe-deactivated20231020]

also, i like these weird character designs.

[copperoranges-blog]

I am moving to Portland, Oregon

And I have a job! 

[lupanthropy]

“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.”

 Neil Gaiman 

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

Watch: Braille Bricks could help teach blind and sighted kids literacy — but they need everyone’s help.

Follow @the-future-now

[gretchen-anner]

conditions of love: the philosophy of intimacy

[katerspie]

[copperoranges-blog]

Richard Brautigan

[nevver]

North American Purgatory, Marc Trujillo

[copperoranges-blog]

aka Murfreesboro, TN 

[fortunenglory]

[Paul] Ryan’s budgets, as analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office under his direction, call for eliminating the whole of the federal government by 2050, except for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and the military. This is implied by his reducing everything except Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid … That leaves zero for the Justice Department, the State Department, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Education Department, the National Park Service and everything else we think of as the federal government. … Speaker Ryan is a person who wants to phase out the federal government. That is about as radical a position as you can find in D.C. and Ryan has repeated it many times.  Next to no one seems to know that Ryan is [a federal government] abolitionist. It is difficult to see how someone espousing this view can be seen as a moderate conservative.

From economist Dean Baker’s Beat the Press, part of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. (via fortunenglory)

[copperoranges-blog]

Getting by

Bob Hicock 

I love the idea of climbing a ladder while carrying another ladder. Of climbing that ladder carrying a tree. Of climbing the tree to get closer to where rain doesn’t fall, to touch the asceticism of the sky, the hem of drought. As when the woman I love said I don’t love you anymore and I decided to love her for not loving me. Within a year, she loved me again for loving her negations. In the same way, I love the rain for killing itself before it reaches the grass, I love the grass for turning brown, I love brown for being the color of my thirst, I love my thirst for its willingness to kill me. But this is all an idea, a man on a tree on a ladder on a ladder on a planet in a solar system in a poem that is fighting for its life, like the city I see when  I close my eyes, or the night of my closed eyes that falls upon the city, or the people in the city who look up and want moonlight, even a quarter moon, even the word moon on a string will do. 

[mrcallibister-deactivated201812]

If you were ever curious about the layout of The Office set.

[heislergoldale]

The cricket doesn’t wonder if there’s a heaven or, if there is, if there’s room for him. It’s fall. Romance is over. Still, he sings. If he can, he enters a house through the tiniest crack under the door. Then the house grows colder. He sings slower and slower. Then, nothing. This must mean something, I don’t know what. But certainly it doesn’t mean he hasn’t been an excellent cricket all his life.

“nothing is too small to be wondered about” by mary oliver (via heislergoldale)

[chief0keefe]

IM SCREAMING

[chief0keefe]

IT CAME FULL CIRCLE IM HOLLERIN

[chief0keefe]

IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER

[chief0keefe]

IS HE GOING TO BE DRAFTED NEXT???!!!??

[championofmediocrities]

This is so sweet and pure. Lol.

[mooserattler]

I’m crying. I’m also rooting for the Blues now.

[fanboy-trav-deactivated20190424]

@kvnbksa have you seen the updates?

[chief0keefe]

more updates

[king-emare]

I LOVE THIS!!!!!

[ja-ll]

I’m bursting with joy

[copperoranges-blog]

sports 4 ever