Spring Smiles

Two smiles in one frame...

I used to take it for granted, but it's become rarer with teen-and-tween 'tude. 

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This is how...

I need to put this out there, to counteract Diaz's somewhat simpering performance on The Colbert Report this week, and remember that he's a MacArthur my kind of genius.

(From Diaz's Twitter feed in November 2012

http://twitter.com/JunotDiazDaily/status/268774844273934336)

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High

The memory of a plane
crawling before flight
the tires tearing grief
a captured sigh of air

the first possibilities
of the night-mare are
gold-tipped at dusk
needy as a pilgrimage

I follow legs of furniture
to the crotches of trees
light bleeding from clouds
coming down, bringing it all down


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Perhaps it is true. Yesterday, a student blamed his dream--of a gray mold that crawled up his toothbrush--on the Gabriel Garcia Marquez we've been reading in class...

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So Sari

Unusually for me, I turned up to work in a sari. ( A special sari that my Chelli gave me back in May last year!)

 I took an accidental selfie while I was documenting student PowerPoints, and so I even have proof.

Thanks for the sari, Chells!!

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Puppy Love

I have Scout the puppy on the brain.

All day, conversations about the SCOTUS decision on marriage equality sounded like "Scout's decision." (Scout is a big advocate of unconditional and unrestrained love.)

Also, I realized today that a few weeks ago I posted a link to an article on Scott Prouty, the Romney 47% videographer (awesome transcript at Shakespeare's Sister), and referred to him as SCOUT Prouty. (I hope Scott won't mind--he shouldn't; Scout doesn't hate anyone, especially people who work hard--you should see how hard he wags his stubby little tail in the video.)

The thing is, we don't even get to meet Scout for two more weeks. (At likes to point out that I have a major case of Internet-fueled love for my surrogate-birthed puppy baby.)

Pictures!

Scout doing his best impression of a potato (at two weeks):

And such a serious fellow today (six weeks):

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Meanwhile, over on FB...

What can happen when you have one kid on the cusp of high school and the other in kindergarten...
Atul: I need to finish my PowerPoint.
NuNu: I can power point! (pokes him hard)

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If I have to be in the office on a Sunday...

I'm glad I get to giggle at the incongruity of a plant wearing my favorite Horace Mann quote: