Magazine Posts

 "Friendship is the sunshine of life — the quiet radiance that makes our lives not only livable but worth living. (This is why we must use the utmost care in how we wield the word friend".... Read more at the Marginalian

From out of the past,
through the back door,
my thirst for knowledge,
hungers for more.

Magazines, countless books
and a little TV, too,
I devour the knowledge,
to impress you and you.

"In Greenville, students can specialize in engineering beginning in kindergarten. Some critics worry the push for career education at young ages is putting business priorities before those of students and school systems" ..."Greenville is now introducing the idea of a career path to students in elementary school and giving students the option to follow those programs to middle and high schools, hoping by eighth grade they will have a better understanding of what they want to do after high school and what it will take to get there." More at The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report, is a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

If I say to you,
young lady, thou,
write your thoughts,
starting soon, or now.

Let your words flow
from your head.
Write them down,
no fear, no dread.

You're in control
of what you write.
No matter what,
you are right.

MFish

"In The Story of Ferdinand (public library), a gentle-souled young misfit bull sits out the perpetual head-butting by which his peers hone their bull-skills, choosing instead to smell the flowers under his favorite cork tree in solitude. His mother, at first worried about his bullness, recognizes her son’s difference and trusts that he would find his way" And so he does..... Read more

"A symbolic moment of peace, grace, and humility amidst one of humanity’s most violent and disgraceful events".
"In December of 1914, a series of grassroots, unofficial ceasefires took hold of the Western Front in the heat of WWI. On Christmas, soldiers from an estimated 100,000 British and German troops began to exchange seasonal greetings and sing songs across the trenches",........ Continue Reading

"A pleasingly disorienting foray into the fundamental perplexity of life".