“You might slow down a little bit, and you might not jump as high as you used to,” Obama said, “but I know what I’m doing, and I’m fearless.”

Each day I am thankful for: rights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, dreams that turned into reality and likes that turned into love.  -Unknown

June is Pride month!

http://storycorps.org/listen/samuel-taylor-and-connie-casey/

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” ~ Mark Twain

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. -Carl Jung

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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. -F. W. Robertson

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you. -Annie Dillard