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[27 Apr 2009|05:32pm] |
just to let my seattle kadz/kasamz know i am making an effort to apply to schools here :)
4/27/2009
All of your application materials have been received for Building Leadership positions with Seattle Public Schools. Your application will be considered during the screening process.
Please remember that specific openings have not yet been identified. Complete application packets will not be screened until we have additional information on vacant building administrative positions. The timing of these activities is indicated as "to be determined" for this year’s process.
If you have further questions, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely, H.D.
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| <3 My Sister |
[26 Apr 2009|01:14pm] |
Message from our middle school principal:
4/23/2009
Met your sister at WaMu, soon to be Chase. She told me that you were working on an administrative credential. When we first met, she said you were attending WWU [sic]. That's a great school. It's where I got my Masters allowing me to return to UW for my administrative credential. My oldest son graduated from Western in 1988.
It was good to hear that you chose a career in education. It's tough, but rewarding.
Your sister's voice and eyes reveal her pride in you and your accomplishments.
When your sister told me you were serving at Sealth, I told her that I was an AP at Sealth between my Mercer stints.
I was at Asa Mercer with you and I was with John Boyd at Chief Sealth
Wish you the best!
D.S.
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| Plant and Harvest Dates |
[09 Apr 2009|02:25pm] |
Date:
Apr 4, 2009 1:52 AM
Subject:
Hey Free
Body:
I just wanted to hit you up and let you know.
I really appreciate that you were so chill with me at SW. I, just like others, struggled to get back in the habit of sittin in a class with a bunch of kids, while actually LISTENIN to a teacher. You, Lisa, and B helped to train my mind into goin to class and succeeding.
Especially you. Lisa and B kept me on track, and you kept me interested enough to want to stay on track. You always had somethin new, or you rebirthed somethin old. I really miss all of it and will more so once I start workin on becoming a nurse. I just wanted to thank you, both belatedly and ahead of time, for helping me along the path to graduation.
Honestly I wouldn't be where I am without you. =] You were one of the best, and favorite teachers in my 13 years in school. Haha and VICE PRINCIPLE. =] Thanks for takin up the slack for (redacted). Forreal. This year has gone so much better at Sealth since MOST people have been doin their job. Anyways, thank you and best of KARMA on your journey. =]
-Kalani-
(just counting victories right now...need to.)
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| The choice |
[23 Mar 2009|07:08pm] |
"The choice faced by Third World peoples is not,, as often stated in the most banal and chauvinist way, between U.S. democracy (confined only to the wealthy few) and totalitarianism, between laissez-faire modernization and feudal conservatism. Rather, it is between a capitalist system, where the major means of social production are owned or controlled by a privileged minority, and a society founded on socialist principles, where those means of production are controlled and managed in the interests of the workers and peasants, for the majority of the people, and where the guiding principle for the whole society is not competition, but cooperation and the spirit of working-class internationalism."
---E. San Juan, Jr. From the Masses, to the Masses: Third World Literature and Revolution
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| Reconstitution |
[22 Mar 2009|03:19pm] |
Resolution in hardship, perseverance to the end….Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms. In the absence of the greatest resolution, it is very easy to falter in mid path….People without great aims and ambitions rarely have the firmness of purpose that does not covet petty advantages or seek a comfortable existence. But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.
--- Ding Ling, Thoughts on March 8
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| not so random quotables |
[11 Mar 2009|11:17pm] |
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive” - Sir Walter Scott
"what a tangle web we weave when we conspire to conceive" - 2pac
started my new affair...with twitter.
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| FWD: |
[23 Feb 2009|11:49pm] |
"Assume man to be man and his relationship to be a human one: then you can exchange love for only love, trust for trust, etc. If you want to to enjoy art, you must be an artistically cultivated person; if you want to exercise influence over other people, you must be a person with a stimulating and encouraging effect on other people. Every one of your relations to man [and woman] and to nature must be a specific expression, corresponding to the object of your will, of your real individual life. If you love without evoking love in return - that is, if your loving as loving does not produce reciprocal love; if through a living expression of yourself as a loving person you do not make yourself a beloved one, then your love is impotent - a misfortune." [1844 economic and philosophic manuscript]
Rest In Paradise, Lola. We got this mf on lock.
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| Azumanga Daioh - Tomorrow Hill |
[16 Feb 2009|05:21am] |
Sun shining through my window
It gleams like honey so golden and so sweet
You can almost taste it
Driving through Diamond City
I wanna escape the crowds and concrete for
Where the hill and sky meet
Sitting inside my pocket
I've packed a cupcake to sweeten up my view
When I make it up there
And another day fades away
But it's magic memory, a magic memory
One that I'll keep close to my heart for
Any gloomy day when the view's not quite as sweet as today
Yesterday sinks away, down with the buildings and skies
But the horizon greets me, with possibility
Just gotta keep on climbing
Concrete, traffic, street lights, they all fade away
As I approach the blue sky
Feathery clouds in my eyes
Already said my goodbyes
I know tomorrow shines bright up at the top of this hill
It always will
I know tomorrow shines bright up at the top of this hill
I know that it always will
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| Maktub |
[02 Jan 2009|04:00am] |
I'm not saying this to shake you up
I'm just saying this to wake you up
It's all good when we making love
All I ask is you don't take our love
For granted, it's granted
My love for you, is real
Baby if you don't love me
Somebody else will
So don't you
ever
get too
comfortable
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| silat salutations |
[07 Dec 2008|08:33pm] |
today's arnisador lesson: "never over commit" --- d'builda (and destroya)
stand perpendicular, ninety degrees; maintain your independence.
"too blessed to stress."
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| breakthrough |
[08 Nov 2008|07:57am] |
the past never seemed so distant
nor did the future ever seem so
present and near
at my fingertips
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| right (correct) mind: sofa king good! |
[30 Jul 2008|12:38pm] |
From: Ginott, H. (1972). Teacher and Child
I have come to a frightening conclusion.
I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis
Will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized.
after a birthday extended remix that lasted a whole week, and after a profound retreat with my cohort revisiting why i became an educator, and after a crescendo with 3/4ths et.al. therefore be it resolved...we cee knowledge through practice.
Questions by Rainer Maria Rilke
Be patient towards all that is unsolved
In your heart.
Do not seek the answers
which cannot be given
because you would not be able
to live them.
And the point is,
To live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then
Gradually,
Without noticing it,
Live along some distant day
Into the answers.
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| crimes of the heart [a CSC] |
[17 Jul 2008|12:49pm] |
love, doesn't need a complicated metaphor
and sometimes nothing needs to be said at all
sometimes the person you wit is not your one and only
and you just fuck with them cuz you afraid to be lonely
and when you come back it's too late, and so you overcompensate
like victims of rape with a self-hate
lost in the affection of strangers around you
instead of the only person that ever gave a fuck about you
thought you were happy so you didn't come check me
but then when he cheated or treated you incorrectly
you conveniently realized you could never forget me
and tried to crawl back into my life unexpectedly
these are my indictments for those who claim to be righteous
and leave a trail of broken hearts on they way to enlightenment
but i cant give into hatred or pass judgment
even towards every illusion i've been in love with
because the heart that betrays itself willingly
is like the nation that trades freedom for stability
its so seductive to be cold and corrupted and isolated
trying to be an independent republic
but liberty to be loved on the surface is worthless
the sacrifice of revolution with no purpose
take it from a criminal searching for his redemption
cursing the god, desperately trying to get his attention
---immortal technique
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| on Hatred |
[28 Jun 2008|04:03pm] |
Hatred
I shall hate you
Like a dart of singing steel
Shot through still air
At even-tide,
Or solemnly
As pines are sober
When they stand etched
Against the sky.
Hating you shall be a game
Played with cool hands
And slim fingers.
Your heart will yearn
For the lonely splendor
Of the pine tree
While rekindled fires
In my eyes
Shall wound you like swift arrows.
Memory will lay its hands
Upon your breast
And you will understand
My hatred.
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981)
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| BUILD STRONG |
[23 May 2008|09:45am] |
yo yo confused but yet wise my problem surrounds me
A lot of things upset me as my soul rejects me
enemy of my self physical.....listen, let me tell you about..
yo yo confused but yet wise my problem surrounds me
A lot of things upset me as my soul rejects me
enemy of self physically enslaved
by the luxuries of this world so I behave
like a man inside the grave
who's life is lost
I want the promised gold but can't afford the cost
or could I, I know the prescribed laws
any effect is a result of the cause
of lies and delusions to myself I have lied
burning inside wanting to open wide
and scream
the name of the supreme
but I'm trapped in this world
lusting for girls
therefore I imagine a genie and a wish
and searching for things that just does not exist
but in the midst there's the answer for which i have searched
cause from me springs divine prince rakeem
and that is me the master of equality
with the ability
to set myself free
but b.o.b.b.y
he don't want to die,
he don't want to die he don't want to try
so I'm forced to cry
and get trapped up for living my life inside a lie
these problems surround me
a lot of things upset me
as my soul rejects me
enemy of my self physically enslaved
by the luxuries of this world so I behave
like a man inside the grave
who's life is lost
I want the promised gold but I can't afford the cost
or could I, I heard of the prescribed laws
any effect is a result of the cause
of lies and delusions to myself I have lied
burning inside and wanting to open wide
and scream
the name of the supreme
but I'm trapped in this world
I'm lusting for girls
before I imagined a genie and a wish
and I'm searching for things that does not exist
but in my midst there's the answer
for which i have searched
cause from me springs the divine prince rakheem
and that is me the master of equality
give myself the opportunity
and set free and be all I can be
be all I can be
and not a nigga just trapped up in luxury
yo bobby digitial got to get knowledge of his self right now,
as we go through the struggle of life we got to go from boy to man
we start off as sperm to baby baby to man from man to dead man
and from dead man back to sand
all praises due to allah the most high word up
I got to be free I got to be free I got to break free
I got to break free I got to break free I got to break.....
RZA Build Strong lyrics
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0SGX1sRKYP4
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