• “Begin at the beginning . . . “

    " . . . and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
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  • STRANGELY, I LEARN MUCH IN MOMENTS OF DISTRACTION.

    "So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her."
  • Slight shiftings

    "I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!"
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  • “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things.”

    Of shoes . and ships . and sealing-wax . and cabbages . and kings . and why the sea is boiling hot . and whether pigs have wings.
  • And it just gets

    "Curioser and curioser!"

Things I Cannot Wait to Teach My Children #3

So last night was the Moon Festival, of course, because the moon is the ripest it will be for a long time. To celebrate we got some moon juice and moon chocolate and went up on the balcony of Carter to pay homage to our strange and lovely friend the moon.

To prepare for this event, [...]

The 13 Possibly Worst Ways for the Harry Potter Books to Have Ended:

***don’t worry, Lisa, James, etc. These are not spoilers—they do not take into account anyone’s actual deaths or actual occurances or anything like that. Except . . . hm . . . well . . I GUESS YOU’LL HAVE TO SEE . . . . . . oh, and if anyone feels so compelled, add [...]

Things Colin and I unfortunately WEREN’T for Kartoon Kilter :

 

who invented them?
why?
 
 

imagine the sparkling conversation.
 

Prince of Persia! It would’ve been SICK!
 

these guys!
 
 
 
so many options.
 
but we really just wanted the red cloaks.

MATH WARS : Episode 1

I am deeply embroiled in one of the most intense battles I have ever faced. At this point, it has become much more than passing the class Concepts in Mathematics.
It is desperately trying not to be buried in the crumbling debris of all the reality I once relied upon.
Which is, as of now, completely exploded.
Ruptured.
Vaporized.
Gone.
Forever.
In this class, we [...]

A Fabelhaft. . . by any other name . . .

 
(This is a man named Aaron Schwarz . . . BUT NOT FOR MUCH LONGER. To read his story and maybe make some sweet moolah go here.)
I’ve been thinking alot about the following matters recorded here, so its going to be long . . .I’ve decided to split it up into sub-headings which you can [...]

fickle, freckled

All things counter, original, spare, strange;

  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)

    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;

He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
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The above is an excerpt of one of my most favorite poems, “Pied Beauty,” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. And it communicates something I’d like to communicate in this almost-a-year-old blog.
[What a joke! [...]