June 2012
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Visited the downtown music store today, only to...
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I really hope this rain isn’t coming in through the windows at home. The wind is coming out of the north, which is unusual for a storm around here, so naturally I closed all of the wrong windows.
Other than that, keep on coming, rain (and hail)!
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Lakota speakers looking to start immersion daycare →
nakkyy:
Tama I’atala doesn’t want his children to feel as disconnected from their Lakota heritage as he does from his Samoan culture.
I’atala, who is part Lakota and lives on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, has a solution: Have his children, including his 17-month-old son, learn the language.
“I don’t want my kids to grow up without that sense of pride of who they are,” said I’atala, 36.
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““It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their...”
– “Supreme Court Lets Health Law Largely Stand.” By Adam Liptak and John H. Cushman, Jr. for The New York Times. 6/28/12. (via omnibus2012)
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Damned Drought
I wrote this last night, and with the news of an oncoming heat wave later this week, I’m definitely scared for the rest of this summer.
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My mind can almost hear the terrified screams of the box turtles, snakes, rabbits, mice, and all the other inhabitants of the field, almost as audibly as the distressed clicks and clacks of the red-wing black birds, as they watch their lives...
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I found my uncle’s old banjo upstairs and now all I want to do is to play that banjo but I can’t because it only has one string remaining that probably was last strung in the 1970s and I can’t get more because life is upside down without my grandma here and the only reason mom and I would ever go into town right now is to visit her in the hospital and I really just want to play...
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In other news, it's pouring rain over here. YEAH,...
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Just back from my first reading session with the...
Remember, the younger cousin who needs some work on her reading? The job that I’m freaking out about, because I’m not exactly sure what I’m doing? Yeah.
Well, now I feel a little bit more confident, because I now I believe I saw a few of her problems.
Potential problem #1: I think she finds these books that she has to read a bit too boring. She doesn’t complain, she...
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WatchTHIS IS WHAT I WANT TO DO.
Well, not exactly but I do want to work with all the old stuff that is just hanging around campus. There is so much stuff just sitting around, waiting for ME to come and coo over it. Yep.
Source: [x]
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My tumblr and my facebook are in a race to 100,000...
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And I really want my tumblr to win, even though of course this is a totally arbitrary thing that means nothing, because if my tumblr wins, somehow in my mind that will mean that tumblr is the future and facebook is the past, which would make me happy.
Everybody, go follow John, please. There are many reasons why I say this (just look at his tumblr!), but one reason is...
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I’m still nauseatingly nervous about tutoring my younger cousin. I want to help her, but I have no idea how I am supposed to inculcate a respect and excitement for reading, when I myself never had such a problem?
And really, the problem isn’t with her reading skills. The (supposed) problem is her lack of interest in reading the stories on the standardized reading tests that now...
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