Homework
Not kidding, last week’s Thursday homework had some stellar results.
Prompt: Read the quote by MLK, then write until you FILL THIS BOX.
Quote: “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
I will always agree with the civil right leader Dr. Martin Luther King and I especially agree with this one. I try my best to help everyone when they are down and can’t get back up. I will be there for others if they need motivation. I help my classmates if they need a pencil, paper, tips, advice, motivation, and most important an helping hand. If they need pencil and paper over and over that’s fine with me, because everybody has there good days and bad days. Sometimes that person may talk bad about me, as the people just brush it off! Gone by your business, because that person will one day want something and if you are nice enough you can give to them. As Dr. Martin Luther King sayed “What are you doing for others”? I’m helping.
…to create a bright future.
The law of cause and effect is known as karma. Nothing ever happens to us unless we deserve it. We receive exactly what we earn, whether it is good or bad. We are the way we are now due to the things we have done in the past. Our thoughts and actions determine the kind of life we can have. If we do good things, in the future good things will happen to us. If we do bad things, in the future bad things will happen to us. Every moment we create new karma by what we say, do, and think. If we understand this, we do not need to fear karma. It becomes our friend. It teaches us to create a bright future.
Failure, professionally. | Caroline in the Delta
At least my kids aren’t throwing pebbles at my back this year?
Maybe Crazy Monster needs to upgrade, maybe he needs to move to the woods.
12-hour day, at school literally from 7 to 7. One school day, three solid meanings, a few major failures, just another Monday Crazy Monster is narrating my life.
By the way, I totes can and do and will “do it anymore”, but the sentiment is there.
Sonya Renee - What Women Deserve
Culturally-diversified biracial girl with
a small diamond nose ring and a pretty smile
poses besides the words
“Women Deserve Better”.and I almost let her non-threatening grin
begin to infiltrate my psyche
until I read the unlikely small print
at the bottom of the ad:
Sponsored by the US Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities
and the Knights of ColumbusOn a bus
in a city
with a population of 553,000,
4 teenage mothers on the bus with me,
1 Latina woman with 3 children under 3
and no signs of a daddy.One sixteen year old black girl
standing in 22-degree weather
with only a sweater
a book bag
and a bassinette,
with an infant that ain’t even four weeks yet
tell me that Yes ….
Women do deserve better.Women deserve better
than public transportation rhetoric
from the same people who
won’t give that teenage mother
a ride to the next transit.
Won’t let you talk to their kids about safer sex
Have never had to listen as the door SLAMS
behind the man who adamantly says,
“That shit” ain’t his
leaving her to wonder how she’ll raise this kid.Women deserve better
than the 300 dollars TANF and AFC
will provide that family of three
or the 6 dollar an hour job at KFC
with no benefits for her new baby
or the college degree she may never see
because you can’t have infants at the universityWomen deserve better
than lip service paid for by politicians
who have no alternatives to abortion
though I am sure
right this moment one of their seventeen year old daughters
is sitting in a clinic lobby
sobbing quietly and anonymously
praying parents don’t find out
or will be waiting for mom to pick her up because research shows
that out-of-wedlock childbirth doesn’t look good on political polls and
Daddy ain’t having that.Women deserve better
than backwards governmental policies
that don’t want to pay
for welfare for kids
or health care for kids
or child care for kids
Don’t want to pay living wages to working mothers,
Don’t want to make men who only want to be last night’s lovers
responsible for the semen they lay.Flat out don’t want to pay for SHIT
but want to control the woman who’s having it.
Acting outraged at abortion.
Well I’m outraged
that they want us to believe
that they believe
that women deserve better.The Vatican won’t prosecute pedophile priests
But I decide I’m not ready for motherhood
and it’s condemnation for me
These are the same people who won’t support
national condom distribution to prevent teenage pregnancy.
But women deserve better.Women deserve better
than back-alley surgeries
that leave our wombs barren and empty.
Deserve better
than organizations bearing the name
of land-stealing racist rapists
funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains
with no money to give these women
while balding middle-aged white men
tell us what to do with our bodies
while they wage wars and kill other people’s babiesSo maybe women deserve better
than propaganda and lies
to get into office
Propaganda and lies
to get into panties
to get out of court
to get out of paying child supportGet the hell out of our decisions
and give us back our voice
Women do deserve better
Women deserve choice
(via geographysucks)
Latest Student Writing Sample #2
Prompt: What would you do if you were in charge for the day?
I’m anxious to be able to manage my class for a day. I think this will be thrilling and tremendous. I want to tell you incredible ideas of why I want to be a teacher for a day.
First of all, the organization will be familiar to another teacher. The desks will be like Ms. L’s. I’d like to be in groups instead of a group. I want the room to have purple and gold everywhere like Ms. L, too. I am a little arrogant to not show Bobcat or LSU spirit around. I always want to have rules
…too bad everyone ran out of time. :(
Regarding the future. | Caroline in the Delta
Self explanatory.
good:
Urination at War: Don’t Be Mad at the Peeing; Be Mad at the Killing
What a world we live in, a world in which peeing on dead people yields more moral outrage than killing them in the first place.
THANK YOU, WELL-WRITTEN CAPTION WRITTEN BY GOOD-TUMBLR-EMPLOYEE. More than the writing is the concept, which makes my skin prickle and my gag reflex kick in.
Perks of Being a Wallflower…
Movie is in pre-production right now. Ezra Miller will be in it. I’m hoping it will be good!
P.S. he is adorable.
Also in this movie: Emma Watson, Paul Rudd, and Mae Whitman. I’m pretty excited.
Niiiiiiice
I don’t understand you at all
Sam Brown, professional mind reader.
General older-adolescent partial-hipsters, universal message relater-tos.
My brother gave me 1Q84 for Christmas, by beloved Haruki Murakami. It’s only 925 pages, so I only have 753 to go. Also, Mrs. Social Studies Teacher “noticed you don’t have any polish on” so left a bottle in my school mailbox.
Basically, my life can’t get any better at 12:33am Friday morning.
“The conclusion of things is the good. The good is, in other words, the conclusion at which all things arrive. Let’s leave doubt for tomorrow,” Komatsu said. “That is the point.”
The Alchemist
I gave Sarah my copy of The Alchemist as a temporary Christmas present over break and she just gave it back. She said she liked all my underlining.
But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that there was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired. Tangier was no longer a strange city, and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world.
“When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it,” the old king had said.
And:
…one afternoon, his heart told him that it was happy. “Even though I complain sometimes,” it said, “it’s because I’m the heart of a person, and people’s hearts are that way. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.”
“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”
Mitch at dinner, “Who ever goes back and reads underlines in books?”
Sarah, Laura and Caroline, “I DO!”
What's that riding on your everything? | Caroline in the Delta
Practically bliss.
I want to make this shirt.
