"What am I going to do I don't have time to change. I'll get pinched all day long!" "Well,", Tex said, taking the old green baseball hat off his head, "you could borrow my lucky hat.”"But it's your favorite!" I said."I know,” said Tex. "Just promise to give it ...
But the next time I see someone yawning, and I can’t help but do the same, I’m going to choose to take it as a sign of the human being’s capacity for empathy. That will do a lot more to help me sleep at night than the thought that my brain might be too hot. Sources: 1...
A common superstition says that a person must cover his or her mouth when yawning so that the soul does not escape through the mouth. _【5】__ Today most people do not believe these superstitions and know that a yawn is a physical reflex. ...
A TRAVELER about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand atthe door stretching himself. He asked him sharply: "Why do you stand there gaping? Everything is ready but you, so come with meinstantly." The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: "O, master! I amquite ready; it is you ...
Recently, at Poetic Bloomings, we had a prompt that involved clouds. Coincidentally, that morning I had a visual as I pulled out of my driveway and faced the eastern sky. A mountain range had suddenly appeared overnight. This prompted, of course, a poem that began, then formed in my ...
I Am Not Your Negrois a documentary that uses words of James Baldwin (1924-1987) to narrate the events of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. It tells the story of activists Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. but in doing so tells a much bigger story...
“The safest thing is56people not to text while they walk along,” she said. “57 a lot of people in business are 58to carry a mobile phone and be in5924 hours a day, seven days a week. They are under pressure to reply to calls60, and to respond to text messages and emails stra...
(Well, so am I.) And that was that: I never wondered why it was that fire sprung out of a dead world and licked so close to life. The answer ought to have been obvious. The things that burn are, almost exclusively, organic materials: grass and wood; flesh and fat. (There are ...
I have already allowed a little CIO along with some S/P and it has worked wonders in getting my LO down for his 4 naps a day. Just still can't seem to make it past the 30-35 minute mark, although the mark used to be 20, so we are making progress. Right now I am trying to...
Thank goodness for headphones. I can sit back and look out, even if I am looking at a never-changing landscape, in silence. There are several stops but because we’ve got a lot of distance to cover, the stops are brief. My brother, a photographer with a love ofremote Australia, shake...