a gratitude practice
Posted in dreams, Education, grant writing, Madison, Opportunity, teaching, Wisconsin, writing on Nov 30th, 2007
Yesterday I taught my grant writing class at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. With 11 students, it was a good turn out. (I consider double digits to be the success benchmark.) I love teaching that class because I get to meet people with great ideas and to talk for hours about grant writing. Yesterday, [...]
Posted in Opportunity, travel, writing on Nov 29th, 2007
One sweet thing about pulling out all your winter gear is reaching into a coat pocket for the first time in 6 months and getting lucky enough to pull out a piece of treasure: a $10 bill, the missing pair of earrings, or a piece of candy. (Tootsie rolls never go bad.) Putting away my [...]
A heavy fog is draped over the earth. It covers fields and trees in the distance, muting them in to a sepia tone landscape. The world in the 100 meter radius that surrounds me is in tri-color. Sun-faded yellow of cut corn stalks. Deep mud brown of plowed earth. Dewey green of surrounding grass. As [...]
Posted in daily, Opportunity, Wauwatosa on Nov 27th, 2007
I saw this today on Yahoo!’s local news feed. Naturally, I like to keep up on the goings-on of my hometown. Computer Glitch Leads To Brawl At Wauwatosa Kmart A melee at a Kmart store in Wauwatosa Saturday morning was started by a computer glitch. The store was running a promotion in which it would [...]
While I was in Arlington last month, my running goal was to get to the National Mall and run a lap around it. More than that – I thought I could figure out how to get to the Mall from Crystal City by foot. I vaguely remember walking to Arlington Cemetery from DC during a [...]
Posted in garden, vegetarian on Nov 26th, 2007
As it gets colder outside (and by extension, in our apartment) I find myself cooking to warm up. I have about 30 jars of tomatoes in the freezer from this year’s garden and I consider it a bonus if I can use a few of them to make space. Last night, vegan minestrone and yam [...]
An expression of gratitude for all that is good in my life.
