Tag: ladybess
member name: elizabeth e.
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May 12, 2008 07:49 AM EDT --
If I could give you three things
I would give you these
a cheerful heart
some wildflowers
and freedom to be
who you are.
"It is not half so important to . . .
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August 05, 2008 08:15 AM EDT --
On the last Saturday in July since I can remember my little town celebrates Old Home Day with an old-fashion clambake. It's a time when all Carverites "come home" to Carver to share . . .
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August 14, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
Over the past week, Audrey H. has been posting articles on the "greatest dog sled race" in the Arctic, the Iditarod. As each day I read her updates, it brings back memories of Brandy, . . .
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May 16, 2008 08:19 PM EDT --
As many of you know on Gather, each day I teach two sessions of kindergarten. Recently, we received a grant from the state and next year, all day kindergarten will be intoduced in my town. . . .
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May 18, 2008 07:50 AM EDT --
Recipe for Love
Capture the colors of a rainbow
Mix in soil, sweat, and smiles
Stir in a cup of sunlight . . .
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March 15, 2008 12:18 AM EDT --
Today, though it was Friday, I did not go to school. Instead I spent the morning listening to Cat Steven's song "Moonshadow" trying to convince myself that should there be something . . .
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March 19, 2008 08:03 AM EDT --
Yesterday as I was watching my kindergarteners construct the front covers of their homemade books, "The Easter Basket", I could not help but wonder, "Are we not all born creative?" . . .
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April 04, 2008 07:20 AM EDT --
Did I ever tell you
How much you
mean to me
Starting and ending
each day like bookends
on an old worn shelf
content in each other's
presence, whether in
conversation or not.
. . .
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April 18, 2008 07:48 AM EDT --
Spirits
I can see
They will come to me
They will come down under a cloud
They will be my masters
I can see
They will walk in Raven town.
When I saw this painting by Susan . . .
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May 08, 2008 08:01 AM EDT --
When I was in Alabama, whenever we were down by the sea and saw shrimp boats in my mind, I would start singing an old song I learned long ago. You know the song:
" Shrimp boats is . . .
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March 17, 2008 08:01 AM EDT --
"It is clothed in the most magnificent violet-color, and a couple of round clouds were exploding, as it were from the summit, that part of them towards the sea lighted up with the most delicate . . .
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April 24, 2008 08:13 AM EDT --
"The same subject seen from a different angle makes a powerful and interesting study, so varied that I think I could be busy for months without moving from one spot and merely leaning sometimes . . .
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June 22, 2008 06:37 PM EDT --
In the late afternoon on the summer solstice, Sophie decided to take a walk around her world. Sophie lives with Ophelia, her mother, her Uncle Othello and Tuck, their loyal canine companion . . .
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August 02, 2008 10:47 AM EDT --
" When you set out for Ithaka
Ask that your way be long,
Full of adventure, full of instruction."
~C.P. Cavafy~
"Tricia, how are you ever going to see a bobcat in the wild if . . .
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August 17, 2008 10:24 AM EDT --
"I am just so excited, I can hardly contain myself. Mistress Elizabeth said last night that she has arranged for me to have a playdate. Imagine, little old me having a playdate. . . .
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August 21, 2008 09:08 AM EDT --
The birds were singing,
The bees were humming,
And down in the garden,
I heard the blue faeries
murmuring.
"Wee faeries do not swim
in gossamer blue" said
Julia . . .
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August 30, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
This past week I started back to school along with thousands of children through out the nation. For me, this means I'm starting my fortieth year of teaching. Yes, I started long ago in . . .
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March 30, 2008 06:41 AM EDT --
Last night I was on the phone with my sister Fran and we were talking about the two articles I wrote on her Victorian House among other things. Her husband Fred was pleased with the articles but . . .
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April 17, 2008 06:34 AM EDT --
Long ago, in another lifetime, I had a son who did not like school. He did alright in the early grades but by the time he reached high school, he was barely passing. He did not like being . . .
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May 04, 2008 08:18 AM EDT --
It's been over a week since I left Faith at the Airport in Pensacola at 5 A.M. in the morning. I needed to rush back to Massachusetts and get my house in order before school resumed on Monday . . .
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