2006 March 09 archive at The Median Sib

American Idol - My Prediction

Published by carol March 9th, 2006 in Television/Movies. 0 Comments Socialize This! View blog reactions

OK, I’m going out on a limb here, but my unpublished predictions last week were 100% correct for who would be off the show. So here are my predictions for this week. The show starts in about an hour. So I’ll find out soon enough.

Elliott and Kevin will be out - unless Kevin wins the “cute” factor, in which case Will is gone.
For the ladies, it’s Kinnik and Melissa.

Can’t wait to see if I’m right.

Update: I can’t believe Ayla and Gedeon didn’t get enough votes to stay. They both are SOOOO much better than Elliott or Melissa. Oh well! As PawPaw so aptly pointed out: If I wanted them to win, I should have voted. I think Kevin is there because he’s cute and people kinda feel protective of him. Didn’t Gedeon absolutely NAIL his good-bye performance? Wow! And I had tears in my eyes when Ayla sang her last AI song. Oh well. On to next week.

Remember to Re-Member?

Published by carol March 9th, 2006 in Family, Remembering and Blog Recommendations. 0 Comments Socialize This! View blog reactions

I started off my morning reading a post by Ruth at Ruthlace. It’s about remembering and re-membering and poetry and life and growing old and personal history. Here’s an exerpt:

One Sociologist, working with the elderly suggests we hyphenate the word remember to “re-member” to distinguish it from ordinary recollection or reminiscing. Re-membering is more than “Backward, turn back O man in your flight. Make me a child again just for tonight.” Re-membering is the reconstructing of one’s members, the figures who properly belong to one’s prior selves. Through re-membering, a life is given shape and form and extends back into the past and forward into the future as an edited story. Without re-membering, we lose our history and ourselves.

It’s one of those posts that kept my attention and made me think. Go and read it. It is worth the three or four minutes it’ll take to read it well - and the time it will take to re-read it, which I know you’ll want to do. Ruth writes:

I learned in working with the elderly there is a difference in the mental and emotional health of persons who just recollect or reminiscence about their past and those who re-member.

Perhaps that is the long-term value in some of our blogging. Not the heated political debates or social commentary, but those posts where we think back and write about our lives and the people who have touched us and influenced us. I wish you all a day of re-membering.

Thursday Thirteen - Carol’s Favorite Quotes About Reading

Published by carol March 9th, 2006 in Thursday Thirteen. 0 Comments Socialize This! View blog reactions

Thirteen of Carol’s Favorite Quotes About Reading

I’m a reading specialist, and so the topic of reading is probably more interesting to me than most folks. I live and breathe reading. I also collect quotes about reading and books. I put one of my favorite reading quotes in the reading newsletter I write each month for the parents at my school. Here are thirteen of my favorites. (Shhhh! Don’t tell anybody, but numbers 5, 6, and 8 are my absolute favorites! Well, and #13, too.)

1. “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” ~Edmund Burke

2. “Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.” ~Joseph Addison

3. “When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.” ~Clifton Fadiman

4. “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

5. “No matter how busy you think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” ~Atwood H. Townsend

6. “Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” ~Hazel Rochman

7. “Because words are essential in building the thought connections in the brain, the more language a child experiences – through books and through conversation with others, not passively from television – the more advantaged socially, educationally, and in every way the child will be for the rest of his or her life.” ~Mem Fox

8. “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” ~Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

9. “A library is a hospital for the mind.” ~ Unknown

10. “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense ofmyself in the world, I would do that again by reading,just as I did when I was young.” ~ Maya Angelou

11. “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher

12. “Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” ~John Locke

13. ” You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Mohandas Gandhi

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1. Norma

2. Elle

3. Tanya

4. Jane

5. Joan

6. Ruth

7. Jade

8. Katherine

9. better safe than sorry

10. Melli

11. FrogLegs

12. Dawn

13. Wystful (no URL given)

14. Stacey

15. Chickadee

16. Karin

17. Kimmy

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