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🎼 I said won't you sing me one more song, about old San Antone, seems like a dream now, it was so long ago. Jerry Jeff Walker can be just like a coat from the cold, hey, I'm going home.

🎼 'Cause baby I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me...' One of those CA shows is going to get New Romantics and I feel envy at the thought.

You can't truly evaluate online resources critically without critical consciousness. We wrote about it in the Reading Teacher. ILA Chris Montecillo Leider Elena Forzani

Congrats to Dr. Erin for her wonderful research, her trek thru doctoral study (while full-time teaching during a pandemic) and her insistence on the wisdom that comes from listening to those closest to the classroom. Proud advisor day! Wheelock College, Boston University

A bit of a day today. Reminded to listen to what my bones know that my head and heart may not yet and to be surprised at what comes of it. Chris Montecillo Leider

Needs everyone I know to see Barbie so we can discuss.

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.' Edward Said - lost in a world of economic imperialism on this Monday.

Going to bed mad. Gonna wake up mad. Gotta stay mad longer than they stay greedy.

Barely contained rage indeed - but I wrote to the company. All of us can do that - took just a few minutes. Today I am resolved to try to change what I cannot accept.

If the podcast 60 Songs that Explain the 90s went on forever, I'd be in favor of that. I always adore it and remember things long forgotten, but today's episode about the song Regulate is a high point in a show that is just great.

“But, while the river may not be turned aside, it may dry up, and leave nothing behind but the withered branch, and the unsightly rock, to howl in the abyss-sweeping wind, the sad tale of departed glory. As with rivers so with nations.” Douglass, today as ever.

'let-them-eat-cake obliviousness' - I 💛 this KBJ dissent with my whole angry soul.

Just saw a shirt that says 'argumentative, antithetical dream girl' - pop culture is wild y'all.

Stoked to be on the committee of Anna Lim, PhD 🇵🇭 | This Deaf Immigrant Life and to hear this important work today - my first dissertation hearing in ASL! Congrats Dr. Lim!

I grew up very near to Galveston, so Juneteenth has always been a celebration to me. It is still astounding to wake up and have the whole country know it too. In these days when it feels like progress is receding, it is a nice reminder.

'It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.' Daniel Ellsberg. An extraordinary life.

🎼 “I don’t start shit but I can tell you how it ends.” Midnights is growing on me.

'Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.'