practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty
only in grass fields with green leaf does this constant desire find renewal
Journal created:
on 20 August 2003 (#1268213)
Updated:
on 13 July 2010
Name:
Cady
Location:
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States
Website:
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Friends new to me, I'd suggest you start here, with my introduction.
A Little Bit About Me
Age: 28
Reading: alternating between baby books and The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie... slightly eclectic at the moment
Eating: crop share veggies
Listening: NPR in RI - WRNI
Feeling: ready to meet our son!
Heritage: mix of French, English, Scottish, and Native American
Zodiac: Gemini
Education: BS in Biology from Clarkson University, MAT in Elementary Education from Roger Williams University
Job: 5th Grade Science & Reading Teacher//Technical Writer
Strength: organization
Weakness: worrying too much
Fear: sharks and spiders and needles, OH MY!
Names, Dates, and Places:
1981 - born
1999 - graduated high school, went away to college, met Patrick
2002 - adopted Maya
2003 - graduated from college, married my best friend, began Masters teaching degree
2004 - bought our first house
2005 - adopted Lily
2006 - graduated from graduate school, landed my first full-time teaching job
2007 - adopted Mika and Walter
2008 - found a grade I love to teach (5th!)
2009 - gave birth to our first child
Favorites:
Movies: Requiem for a Dream, Lost in Translation, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Princess Bride, Donnie Darko, Once
Musical artists: Pearl Jam, Our Lady Peace, Rage Against the Machine, Ben Folds Five, Coldplay, Radiohead, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Collective Soul, Regina Spektor, Keane, The Fray, Spoon
Television Shows: Sex and the City, Mad Men, Modern Family, Rescue Me, Flight of the Conchords, The Office, Scrubs, Lost, Entourage, True Blood, Arrested Development
Authors: Alice Hoffman, Maeve Binchy, Ian McEwan, Anita Shreve, Richard Price, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Stephen King, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edgar Allen Poe
Places: Bristol, the lake in Vermont, Aquidneck Island, Aruba
Pastimes: reading, writing, TiVo or movies and talking with my husband, cooking, gardening, playing the Sims
Treasured Quotations
"Be like the bird that,
Pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight
Feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings
Knowing that she hath wings." - Victor Hugo
"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essential est invisible pour les yeux." - Le Renard, de Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I'm driving fast now
Don't think I know how to go slow." - Adam Levine
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." - Benjamin Franklin
"With a prompter in every cellar window whispering comebacks, shy people would have the last laugh." - Guillaume Laurant, from Amélie
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb
"Maybe that’s the real ethic of atheism. By confronting the inevitability of your personal expiration date, you know there is a meaning much grander than yourself. The river of life will go on, as it has for nearly 4 billion years on our planet, and who knows for how long and how abundantly on others. Matter is neither created nor destroyed, and we, as matter, will always matter, and the universe will forever be our home." - Natalie Angier
"Let's never come here again because it will never be as much fun." - Sofia Copola, from Lost in Translation
"Politics is easy when you make everything binary." - David Mann
"To be eighty years young is more cheerful and hopeful than forty years old." - Chinese Proverb
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Where I Live:
sarakenobi for the Friends Only banner!Friends new to me, I'd suggest you start here, with my introduction.
Age: 28
Reading: alternating between baby books and The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie... slightly eclectic at the moment
Eating: crop share veggies
Listening: NPR in RI - WRNI
Feeling: ready to meet our son!
Heritage: mix of French, English, Scottish, and Native American
Zodiac: Gemini
Education: BS in Biology from Clarkson University, MAT in Elementary Education from Roger Williams University
Job: 5th Grade Science & Reading Teacher//Technical Writer
Strength: organization
Weakness: worrying too much
Fear: sharks and spiders and needles, OH MY!
Names, Dates, and Places:
1981 - born
1999 - graduated high school, went away to college, met Patrick
2002 - adopted Maya
2003 - graduated from college, married my best friend, began Masters teaching degree
2004 - bought our first house
2005 - adopted Lily
2006 - graduated from graduate school, landed my first full-time teaching job
2007 - adopted Mika and Walter
2008 - found a grade I love to teach (5th!)
2009 - gave birth to our first child
Movies: Requiem for a Dream, Lost in Translation, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Princess Bride, Donnie Darko, Once
Musical artists: Pearl Jam, Our Lady Peace, Rage Against the Machine, Ben Folds Five, Coldplay, Radiohead, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Collective Soul, Regina Spektor, Keane, The Fray, Spoon
Television Shows: Sex and the City, Mad Men, Modern Family, Rescue Me, Flight of the Conchords, The Office, Scrubs, Lost, Entourage, True Blood, Arrested Development
Authors: Alice Hoffman, Maeve Binchy, Ian McEwan, Anita Shreve, Richard Price, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Stephen King, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edgar Allen Poe
Places: Bristol, the lake in Vermont, Aquidneck Island, Aruba
Pastimes: reading, writing, TiVo or movies and talking with my husband, cooking, gardening, playing the Sims
Treasured Quotations
"Be like the bird that,
Pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight
Feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings
Knowing that she hath wings." - Victor Hugo
"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essential est invisible pour les yeux." - Le Renard, de Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I'm driving fast now
Don't think I know how to go slow." - Adam Levine
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." - Benjamin Franklin
"With a prompter in every cellar window whispering comebacks, shy people would have the last laugh." - Guillaume Laurant, from Amélie
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb
"Maybe that’s the real ethic of atheism. By confronting the inevitability of your personal expiration date, you know there is a meaning much grander than yourself. The river of life will go on, as it has for nearly 4 billion years on our planet, and who knows for how long and how abundantly on others. Matter is neither created nor destroyed, and we, as matter, will always matter, and the universe will forever be our home." - Natalie Angier
"Let's never come here again because it will never be as much fun." - Sofia Copola, from Lost in Translation
"Politics is easy when you make everything binary." - David Mann
"To be eighty years young is more cheerful and hopeful than forty years old." - Chinese Proverb
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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