Quote from a book

"When you are a foreigner, you can't be your humble self anymore. I am my nation, my place of birth. I am everything except me."

- Omer Ozipahioglu, Saints of Incipient Insanities by Elif Shafak, p. 110)

Sending...

Gladys sends her sincere gratitude for the "LOVE".

To hide or to share?

Greatest Gift of All, Isabel Bryer

"Ice Skaters"

Ice Skaters, by Benn Mitchell, 1950-51?

I don't know why I am particularly drawn to this picture of skaters. Maybe because I don't know how to skate? Or maybe because their shadows are the same size as they are. I also enjoy the contrast of dark and light. I guess that is it.

What does Gladys want from the future?

Love.

The Way I See It #36

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos.

-Alice Randall, Novelist, The Wind Done Gone, and fist black woman to write a No.1 country song.

From Starbucks

The Way I See It #294

Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.

- Renford Reese, Ph.D. Author, professor and founder of the Colorful Flags Program at Cal Poly Pomoma University.

From Starbucks

The Way I See It #223

The greatest difficulty of travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

- Alain de Botton, Author of The Consolations of Philosophy and the Architecture of Happiness.

What I am reading now...

Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

(I'm still writing the reviews...)

Miss, Pakwan nga...

Actually it is supposed to be a Melon.

"Amoy Melon", not "Melon Amoy"

Warning: Child-proof your lesson plans #1

Me: On the square with a picture of a bear, draw pictures of things that bears eat. It must start with the letter B.

1st Grader Girl: I know! Berries!

Me: That's right! Who else knows what bears eat? Remember it has to start with a letter B!

1st Grader: Oh I know! Boy!