Kevin says these are his only two original sayings, but I’m thinking he must be wrong…if only because he hates to be wrong so bad. ;P He says all of this is “very true.” “As a spiritual Benedictine Oblate, the world is my monastery.” “Like you need air, I need prayer.”
“Mommy, if I could be president, I would make it a law that nobody could kill any more babies.” ~Lucas Dalton, age 7
Padre Pio-Taormina-Sicilia-Italy – Creative Commons by gnuckx, originally uploaded by gnuckx. “There is a mother who is embroidering. Her son, sitting on a low stool, sees her work, but upside down. He sees the knots of the embroidery, the tangled threads and says, ‘Mother, what are you doing? Your work is not at all clear.’ [...]
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My favorite quotation and my favorite Photoshop all in one! I made this for a class I took last year. It was my final project, a lesson that I could use to teach my students how to use an aspect of the graphics program. I haven’t used it yet, but another English teacher used it [...]
I took this one behind my parents’ house. I love the incongruity of the dainty flowers flourishing amid the hardy cacti. As we were sitting in a meeting waiting for someone to return the other day, Kevin pointed out a photocopied quotation thumb-tacked to a board. It’s by Charles (Chuck) Swindoll. “The longer I live, [...]
I’d had this quotation in mind for a long time, but only made a poster of it this past year. It’s what you could call a conversation-starter. And not just with students. The “witticism” is attributed to Winston Churchill, although there’s a lot of debate over its original form. “Don’t end a sentence with a [...]
