“Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.” – Al Hirschfield Artist. As a child, I never considered myself an artist. Coloring was an everyday event in our school, especially satisfying for those who owned the big box of Crayolas with the built-in sharpener. My mother found…
“The best things in life are old, loved and rescued.” – Anonymous The consignment shop where I drift in and out to find bargains has a winter sale which is exceptional. They need to clear out their sweaters to make way for the lightweight tee shirts of a warmer clime.…
“Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching and His angels are interested spectators too.” -Billy Graham Truth is always stranger than fiction. That is why biographies and memoirs are my favorite…
“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.” Isaiah 9:2 Snowflakes drifted in the sky. A cold wind from the north whistled against the bricks of our classroom. My six behavior-disordered fifth…
“The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page.” –Rachel Anders Christmas is a time of anxiety for the students in my behavior disorder/emotionally disturbed classroom. Living in poverty, the expectations of the rest of America accentuated their lack of “stuff”. Depression, despair and desperation etch…
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” -St. Francis of Assisi As a child living in a struggling household, I attended a one-room school house in rural Wisconsin. The snow fell thick on the corn stubbed fields surrounding our school as the wind…
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