Quote of the Day, May 18

Miss M., isn’t Fanny Crosby a hockey player?

That would be Sidney Crosby.

Legacy

I hope that eons from now, when archeologists dig up the Library of Congress and find the contributions of twenty-first century America, they uncover the Story Corps archives, and somehow miss all of our tweets.

Things my mama taught me

. . . to read

. . .to teach other people to read

. . . to enjoy each blessing without demanding that it continue

. . .to leave my keys with whatever I don’t want to forget

. . .to sew

. . .to rely on my Heavenly Father and not just on my earthly father

. . . to finger-press clothes (for a girl who doesn’t like to iron, this one’s gold)

. . . to make a roux (and lots of other foundation dishes)

. . .to read God’s Word every day.  If I only picked up one habit from my mom, this alone would be reason enough to celebrate her today.

A sampling of my students’ Mother’s Day sentiments

You are the best mom to ever exist.

If you want, I will do your chores.

Thank you for all the lunches you make for me.

You are a huge blessing to me.

Please excuse my unneat handwriting.

Thank you for giving me so much love.

And to that, I’ll add my “Ditto what he said, Mom!”

21 on the 21st

One thing I would never, ever want to be
1) A vegan

Two things I want to see before I die
1) Northern Lights
2)  This building in London:

Three things to which I’m inordinately attached
1) My cast iron skillet
2) My go-to earrings.  I lost them for about a week recently and realized how dependent I’ve become.
3) My current Bible.  It’s falling apart, and I have to reassemble the pastoral epistles every time I put it away.  I’ve shelved other Bibles when they started to disintegrate, but I’m in denial about this one.

 
Four things that make me cry:
1) Baptisms.  In a good way.
2) Footage of the Berlin wall coming down.  Every.  Single.  Time.
3) Remember the Titans.  (Kind of embarrassing.)
4) Seeing my dad cry.

Five things I’ve never done (that pretty much everyone else I know has):
1) Read any Harry Potter book (not because I’m anti-Potter, mainly because by the time I realized that lots of people I respect thought they were worth reading, I also realized I’d want to read the whole series at once and that would require two solid weeks of my life.  I tell myself I’m saving them in case I’m ever housebound for two weeks.)
2) Driven stick shift.  One of these days. . .
3) Gotten a ticket.
4) Gone to the Grand Canyon.
5) Watched 24.  Or Lost.

Six things I didn’t expect to like nearly as much as I do
1) Berkeley, CA
2) Clear furniture
3) Cezanne.  I didn’t really have an opinion about him, and then saw this in person.
4) Sushi.  Raw fish?  Gross.  Only, it turns out, not really.
5) The whole shorts-with-tights trend.
6) Latin.  I just started studying it so I could teach it, but now I’m hooked.

A. Dillard > grading (at least on spring break)

“Here was a new light on the intricate texture of things in the world, the actual plot of the present moment in time after the fall: the way we the living are nibbled and nibbling– not held aloft on a cloud in the air but bumbling pitted and scarred and broken through a frayed a beautiful land.”

Hannah Coulter, again

After your expectations have gone their way and your future is getting along the best it can as an honest blank, you shape your life according to what it is.