Teatrekkers could be seen last night at the first of our 2012 Winter Salon evenings. With a dozen friends we learned from Mary Lou and Robert Heiss (the authors of four really excellent books) just a tiny bit about Chinese teas: its origins, how and where what we were tasting was grown, how to brew [...]
100 Day Project — Finished Well, I do have to admit defeat – at least in terms of being able to blog for 100 days in a row. I made it to 66 days spread over about 90 days (including weekends). I learned a lot. I learned I do have something to write about – [...]
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1-Subject Notebook 1 p. 1 100 Day Project – Day 66 – 8:52 p.m. If anyone cares to try to open this document and figure out if it works; you’re welcome to it! I have an Echo Smartpen as part of a grant at my community college. With just a half-hour under my belt, I [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 65 – 8:44 a.m. Well, I must admit life has been very full — usually is – and I’m considering not continuing this Project — could I call it the 65 day project? I’ve skipped quite a few days; and see by my trusty old paper calendar that I should [...]
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I was told today by a student, with others agreeing, that I was a very deep person. Last class meeting, the students participated in a Literacy Month event at our college. The local Head Start bused 30 preschool children to our college’s library where we had the joy of reading one-on-one with the children, joining [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 56 – 10:16 p.m. “Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion.” Mr. Rogers Indeed it is. But, it’s an illusion worth keeping. Today I’m thinking that life is full, life is complicated, life is complicated, life leaves me [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 54 – 9:00 pm Today was Advising Day at the community college where I work – a day to sit with your Advisor (for those students who choose to, of course), and talk about your goals, where your studies are going, how they are going, what you want to be [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 52 – 9:16 pm I’m sure no one else but me is counting or cares; but if a reader is interested, I know very well that Day 52 had almost a week between it and Day 51! I can blame the crazy October snow storm for a day or two; [...]
100 Day Project – Day 51 – 2:09 p.m. SNOW – a big snow storm in October! A snow day today! There’s much to say about the craziness of it, the no electricity, have fun talking and cleaning odd things and doing other chores that require no electricity, and hot cocoa on the sterno! But [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 50 – 10:01 pm Here’s the dictionary definition of “joy:” joy [joi] noun 1. the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation: She felt the joy of seeing her son’s success. 2. a source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something [...]
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