Earth Day

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

(Chief Seattle)

today i'm thankful for...

flower buds on the trees... high heels... students who get excited about Shakespeare... Bob the goldfish... national poetry month... a plane ticket home for Easter... an afghan knit by my grandma on my bed... baseball season... Special K Vanilla Almond cereal... amazon.com... the ticking of my wall clock...

refreshing

Kind, unsolicited words about my World Literature 2 class...

"I absolutely love your class. I love our readings and I love how you go into so much detail about each and every one of them without making it terribly boring, which is a very refreshing thing."