NotYourAverageSpice

C'mon man...did he catch him!?!?

It's exhausting living through an entire verse of "We Didn't Start the Fire" every day.

Trained a bit in calligraphy and have been reading teen scratches for 30 years: mos def hindu.

👇cancel that quiz and drop the homework...then give them time to talk when they come back. This is how community does...

I just rrealized it's only Tuesday and I want to cry.

May you find depths in the hoarding of energy to sustain you through the next push, and may the world bless you with small joys. (I keep a tiny kobold hoard next to my first lamp of the day for color and light and joy. Thank you for that.)

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Small conifer tree seedlings in white paper cups on blue tray, faintly lit by the winter sun rising to the right of viewer.

🍎 Hello #edusky. If you are not able to strike and are at school, may you play the day away and create welcoming loving spaces for the children. See here the baby trees many hands tucked into travel cups before sunrise to give away. Much love and hope was shared and maybe you can find some too.

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs

Turn it off, now.

Things I did today instead of doomscrolling
1. Opened house to air it out
2. Packed boxes for beloved offspring
3. Plotted teaching from compassion instead of control
4. Looked back at yesterday's ART!!
5.Walked in the sunshine

Judge sets Tyler McCain trial for March – Shasta Scout The jury trial was supposed to start last month, but it got pushed back after a request from McCain’s lawyer.

The jury trial was supposed to start last month, but it got pushed back after a request from McCain’s lawyer.

Things happen?!..like this 👇, and if we look away too long, we give up. My friends, may we rest and find a way to love boldly and lead with hope in a classroom where our students will have soaked up the horror of this weekend and will not have all the tools they need to communicate their pain 🍎 💔

Oh...wow.

*goes to cabinet for pretty box*

Red cup-shaped flower with bright yellow stamen against a green background.

A shrub with strong green leaves, with multiple red, cup-shaped flower with bright yellow stamens in a pale blue-green flowerpot catches the December sunlight

🌱 paying me back for a good summer: Camellia Yuletide right on time this year after no flowers last year!

Wanna feel older than old? Teach high school freshman when it's been 6 or 7 days since Thanksgiving....

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Drawing of a Saltasaurus with its back to the viewer in three-quarter view, wearing a voluminous sash around its waist, in which is stuck a profusion of swords whose hilts are carved as the heads of various dinosaurs and pterosaurs. It also wears a tricorn hat trimmed with long feathers and carries a spear.

Ol' Salty, Pirate Saltasaurus. A bit of silliness which became a personal favourite.

Sepia ink over blue pencil on Strathmore grey toned paper, 110 × 143 mm, from 2013.

#ArtAdventCalendar

A close up of entrelac or basket-weave style knitting in variegated wool yarn, gently transitioning between various shades of green. The effect is reminiscent of a dappled forest floor

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 1: sunlight filtered through leaves in a deep forest

Entrelac knitting in variegated wool

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A Great Horned Owl with bright yellow eyes sits on the top of a tree branch and lowers its head to look towards the viewer.

Wait, what's this I see? Could it be the beginning of another year of #ArtAdventCalendar? #owls

Digital art illustration of cartoon insects partying: fireflies sit on a frame above shining light on a dancing caterpillar, ant, bumblebee, and mantis below. Text top, middle, and bottom reads "do a little dance / you're a little bug / get down tonight"

"Little Dance, Little Bugs"
2022, digital for fun & print products 🦗
#ArtAdventCalendar

Bright yellow aspen leaves against a vibrantly blue sky, their trunks bright white and the ground litter with fallen leaves.

Oh, #artadventcalendar, how I've missed you!

Here's a something for the eyes: high up in the Warner Mountains above Modoc country, northeastern California

Children pushed back on the bullies at the table and Uncle Don got mad at the teacher who taught them the pinko attitude...you're not wrong.

Id rather go for work-life balance than be "successful" by the metrics society tells me are important.
Id rather take the sick days to get my bodymind back on track (and thank heaven for sick leave).
Id rather be perceived as middling or unmemorable.
Id much rather have a lifetime of happiness.

Oh, we dare not forget the boobjobs and starvation layers plus the 5 inch heels...unless you're tall, in which case, go home.🤬

Pattern recognition has to be my least favorite part of neurodivergence. "Oh, I see where this is going. Surely everyone else sees this too? Oh. Okay. Can't wait to sit here in silent horror while that car crash slowly happens."

Ohhhh...suddenly nostalgic for teaching AP Literature. This, my favorite unintentional comedy in many a late evening paper-scoring session!

Omg! I love the jellyfish...this is great news!!!

Got to be part of a safety drill--I mean absurdly accidentally triggered at 911 level lockdown--and can now scientifically confirm: 9th graders cannot shut up to save their own lives.

Based in 3 essays in 2 hrs 55 minutes...NOT a standard university-level challenge?

Shorthanded argument first draft in about an hour?????