stellablue
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^ looking good TAOW. Very handsome I must say 
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TDS Photo thread vs. Cheezy Grin!!!
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theartofwar
Bluelighter
thx girl, I'm not great w compliments still but I def appreciate your kind words and hope you are doing well.
stellablue
Bluelight Crew
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herbavore
Bluelight Crew
"cheeseheads" Lol! I have relatives in Wisconsin but I had forgotten that nickname.
Yesterday, I realized that I have the end-of-summer blues worse than probably any of my students! I was moping around feeling like I had just been given a prison sentence and all my freedom was about to evaporate before my eyes. Finally I did something I RARELY do, I went clothes shopping at a store that wasn't second-hand! That only served to make me feel very 1) shallow 2) American 3) female. (Yes, I can be hard on myself!) Anyway, I now have my first day of school clothes and, just like when I was a little girl, they help to take the sting out of going back to all the pressures of school. Even though I am already back at school getting ready, planning curriculum, etc. I won't start teaching until next Tuesday.
I love it that Spork gave me one of my first ideas for a project to do with the kids from a picture she posted in here. Nothing like an elementary art teacher getting her lesson from someone on a drug forum-- hooray for when life doesn't fit in a box! Bluelight is a creative culture!
And here is something really exciting to me. One of the teachers took a workshop this summer on a whole Mindfulness curriculum for young students and the whole school is going to integrate it into the teaching. I am so thrilled! Imagine if you were taught as a very young child to actually feel your feelings, given tools on how to manage them when they are overwhelming, taught to value the so-called negative emotions along with the positive. I know that here in TDS and just about everywhere else in my own western-culture life I am surrounded by others like me that struggle to integrate these concepts into our daily lives. I cannot imagine how different my life might have unfolded if, instead of being taught to cover up my anger, my anxiety, my self-doubt etc, I had been nurtured to feel and express all that in ways that didn't harm anyone else. As an art teacher, this has always been my curriculum. I spend as much time talking to the kids about how to banish the paralyzing self-critic in their heads as I do showing them the project we are going to do. But imagine your math teacher taking the time to do this! OK, I'll stop now LOL. I'm just really, really excited and proud of my school for trying this.
Happy Wednesday to this hemisphere and possibly Thursday to the other one!
edit: Just saw your picture taow. You look fantastic--happy and healthy and handsome!
Yesterday, I realized that I have the end-of-summer blues worse than probably any of my students! I was moping around feeling like I had just been given a prison sentence and all my freedom was about to evaporate before my eyes. Finally I did something I RARELY do, I went clothes shopping at a store that wasn't second-hand! That only served to make me feel very 1) shallow 2) American 3) female. (Yes, I can be hard on myself!) Anyway, I now have my first day of school clothes and, just like when I was a little girl, they help to take the sting out of going back to all the pressures of school. Even though I am already back at school getting ready, planning curriculum, etc. I won't start teaching until next Tuesday.
I love it that Spork gave me one of my first ideas for a project to do with the kids from a picture she posted in here. Nothing like an elementary art teacher getting her lesson from someone on a drug forum-- hooray for when life doesn't fit in a box! Bluelight is a creative culture!
And here is something really exciting to me. One of the teachers took a workshop this summer on a whole Mindfulness curriculum for young students and the whole school is going to integrate it into the teaching. I am so thrilled! Imagine if you were taught as a very young child to actually feel your feelings, given tools on how to manage them when they are overwhelming, taught to value the so-called negative emotions along with the positive. I know that here in TDS and just about everywhere else in my own western-culture life I am surrounded by others like me that struggle to integrate these concepts into our daily lives. I cannot imagine how different my life might have unfolded if, instead of being taught to cover up my anger, my anxiety, my self-doubt etc, I had been nurtured to feel and express all that in ways that didn't harm anyone else. As an art teacher, this has always been my curriculum. I spend as much time talking to the kids about how to banish the paralyzing self-critic in their heads as I do showing them the project we are going to do. But imagine your math teacher taking the time to do this! OK, I'll stop now LOL. I'm just really, really excited and proud of my school for trying this.
Happy Wednesday to this hemisphere and possibly Thursday to the other one!
edit: Just saw your picture taow. You look fantastic--happy and healthy and handsome!
theartofwar
Bluelighter
^ That damn near brings a tear to my eye thinking how that could impact a child... but society brought me up to not cry or ill lose my penis. It's about damn time, it's not like our society is great , why we continually force it on children is beyond me - we could and seems by what you are saying ARE, progressing here. Bout damn time, ugh that seriously woulda done WONDERS as a kid.
tripnotyzm
Bluelighter
Working on this weird thing.
Gonna' make some cashola'!
Thanks guys.
This was taken in the butterfly house on Macinac Island, where my frirends and I acted like we worked on the island, making the cost of admission 1dollar instead of 8 : )
So many beautiful creatures(human and non) and stunning pictures of them on here. :D
Not taken by me but from an incredibly lovely documentary about butterflies seen recently. (excerpt for anyone who likes them).
michael
Bluelight Crew
¡actual cosecha!
herbavore
Bluelight Crew
^drool, moan, drool^ ¡jitomates! What are the little green cherry ones? I always plant tomatoes and this year I didn't because I knew I was going to be gone so much of the summer. I love just standing by the plants and popping the little ones in my mouth. And I love the smell of tomato plants. Heaven!
michael
Bluelight Crew
the greenish-yellow cherry tomatoes are an heirloom variety called coyote. the funny thing is that i didn't plant any cherry tomatoes this year either. half of my garden died in the heat wave of early june and they sprouted up in the empty space. they had been planted there last year.
i love the smell of tomato plants too.
i love the smell of tomato plants too.
Seyer
Bluelight Crew
New blazer
theartofwar
Bluelighter
as promised a recent pic of loso with me. Mind you I am 6'2 265-70 lbs in making size comparisons. I'm real proud of that dog , love him to death and he has real heart.
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stellablue
Bluelight Crew
^So handsome. A man after my own heart. I love a man that shows love to his pit. I have a jet black beautiful female pit. Pit's have a lot of heart. I posted a picture of my pit named Allie before. I will take a recent picture and post it today. Promise.
Looking good Seyer as always. That blazer is smokin hawt. %)
Looking good Seyer as always. That blazer is smokin hawt. %)
theartofwar
Bluelighter
^So handsome. A man after my own heart. I love a man that shows love to his pit. I have a jet black beautiful female pit. Pit's have a lot of heart. I posted a picture of my pit named Allie before. I will take a recent picture and post it today. Promise.
Looking good Seyer as always. That blazer is smokin hawt. %)
I'm holding you to that
! Ya that dog man, he blows my mind how much heart he has. Recently, I've tried gettin Loso (pit) and tristan (my baby pug
) to just calm it down n chill in the back yard when i visit my dad, or mom, theyre seperated i dunno whose house im in atm LOL. But leave it to the pug to always instigate with loso, who will be snoozing away only to have a 19 lb pug come up and start nipping him LoL. I guess the dogs both take after me, one just likes to piss bigger than me people off (authority figures) and the other just wants to never let down family (in my case again - i swear Loso trains so hard for those sled pulls he wants to win).
spork
Bluelight Crew
taow, you and Loso look like best buds. All smiles together.
theartofwar
Bluelighter
Thanks spork! Means a lot to me, my dogs have always come first to me - they show true loyalty and love to a degree I admire and wish to become better at myself! When I chill with Loso and Tristan I feel priveleged because I am, it's not the other way around - dog's are truly this man's best friend.
Seyer
Bluelight Crew
Thanks stella!
Awesome dog TAOW!
Awesome dog TAOW!
pastelcircus
Bluelighter
herbavore
Bluelight Crew
I love shadows.
spork
Bluelight Crew
I love you and shadows
This is my new tea infuser:
It makes me smile.
This is my new tea infuser:
It makes me smile.
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