Archive for the 'Headers' Category
To keep things interesting, I try to update the header at the top of webeldotnet. Here’s an archive of past headers.
Yep.
October 10th, 2008
Education: What’s left when you forget what you learned in school.
September 12th, 2008
It’s not love, but lack of love, which is blind.
July 10th, 2008
Glenway Wescott was right when he wrote this … love opens eyes!
Some are guilty, all are responsible.
June 26th, 2008
“In regard to cruelties committed in the name of a free society, some are guilty, while all are responsible.”
I totally agree. While there are always culprits and criminals, advantaged and elite, antagonists and oppressors … I am, in the end, responsible for the actions that are taken in my society. I cannot completely disavow all knowledge, claim that I have no connection, or feign helplessness … I must step up and take action.
For I am responsible.
School’s out for summer!
June 5th, 2008
Q: What are the three best things about being a teacher?
A: June, July, and August!
23 :: If you fear a crooked shadow, stand straight.
May 23rd, 2008
I used to live tentatively, gingerly tiptoeing around other people in conversations and choices. I’d apologize profusely whenever I felt that I might be inconveniencing them … then apologize again for apologizing. It really was ridiculous … in my efforts to be kind and upright, I just lost my spine and often ended up inadvertently offending people.
Now I think I’ve swung to the other end of the spectrum … I try to say “yes” and “no” definitively, to be confident in my opinions, and to walk forward with conviction and assurance. Rather than always fear what other people might think or worry about how my reputation might be affected, I now try to trust my gut and stand for Truth. Sure, it might make me seem like a harsher person on the surface … but I think I’m ok with that.
And I hope that my shadow, in the process, is following suit.
It’s easy to get over missing out.
April 28th, 2008
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
March 27th, 2008
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
March 2nd, 2008
Don’t try to carpet the world … wear slippers.
February 16th, 2008
Besides … slippers make feet happy!
[photo from Marrakesh, Morocco]
Wit is educated insolence.
January 28th, 2008
Love all, trust a few.
January 12th, 2008
The best way out is usually through.
December 26th, 2007
Have a cool yule!
December 18th, 2007
This photo was taken last Christmas Eve day in Yueyang, where I spent the holiday with my cousins and a bunch of other volunteer teachers. Though this year’s Christmas might be a little less exotic, I’m still thrilled to spend it with my immediate family.
Bring on the snow, baby!
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
December 5th, 2007
This jaded Napoleon Bonaparte quotation is probably more accurately stated, “History is a set of stories agreed upon.”
Probably.
Still, it touches on a salient idea … that what we know of the past is largely determined by what someone before us wanted us to know. For better or for worse, we see our world through a tinted lens.
