Monthly Archives: April 2009

Judging Books

Posted on by Ann

I found the link at Lisa’s, Books on the Brain, but it probably is familiar to some of you Idol watchers. I have to admit I was surprised, but it was at once heart-rendering to watch those people judging and laughing and annoying to see them change their minds. We shouldn’t have to prove ourselves constantly, should we? There should be more to worth than how we look because when there isn’t, our outsides become our prophecies.

The song is one of my favorites although I cannot listen to it now without tearing up because the lyrics sum up one of the more critical periods in my life more than I care to recall anymore.

Then listen to Bonnie Hunt’s commentary. Spot on.

All In a Day

Posted on by Ann

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
- John Burroughs quotes (American Essayist and Naturalist, 1837-1921)

I am finding that more and more this sums things up for me. I don’t understand people who can’t fill their hours when there is so much to ponder and wonder about everywhere one looks.

When I was a little girl, I hated school because it interfered with the reading, writing and general exploring of vistas unknown inside myself. I haven’t ever really lost that irritation with the outside world. I am too busy to be bothered by it most of the time, and yet it constantly pokes at me for attention like a pesky little brother on a long car ride.

And I Voted for this Guy Too

Posted on by Ann

The President of a country in financial meltdown due to the incompetence of regulatory officials and the outright greed of the financial industry in general needs to distract the nation and, apparently, the health care thing and the commission on women’s issues (which is an outrage for another day) aren’t enough.

So who’s he gonna call out?

Teachers. But only the “bad” ones who are the root of the growing imbecility problem we seem to have with our young people today.

Yeah, that’s right. If your kid is lazy and/or unemployable, blame it on his or her teachers. They screwed up because they only went into the profession for the summers off and the life-long job security courtesy of those evil unions who only care about lining the pockets of their membership and making sure they have better health care packages than Joe Sixpack and his spawn.

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