Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Childhood

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It really doesn't seem like it was all that long ago, does it?

It's funny how time slips steadily onward.

How we grow a little bit each day.

Suddenly, before we know it,

we're adults.

But still children still at heart...


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Monday, June 25, 2012

Weekly Kodachrome - Hot Wheels ™

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While many different photographs could claim the spot of this week's Weekly Kodachrome, this particular image seemed to reach out to me...especially as I took it while traveling to southern Utah just yesterday.

I saw the billows of black smoke reaching to the heavens from a mile or two away on the distant stretch of I-15. A moment before, a police vehicle had blazed by me as if I were at a standstill, lights and siren indicating that he had someplace to get to - and quickly

My breath caught in my lungs as I neared the fiery inferno that had once been a vehicle. I thought of the passengers, hoping upon hope that they'd managed to escape from the blazing confines in time. I drove through the plumes of throat-choking fumes, my vehicle was momentarily shielded from the sun; I then noticed the driver, standing forty or fifty feet away, watching as his mode of transportation incinerated itself.

I pulled over and watched for a moment as two firetrucks came charging to the rescue, hosing down the molten vehicle before the gas tank had a chance to explode.

I lifted my camera and let the shutter fly.

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Did you take a photo that made you smile? If so, feel free to include it in the linky below. 


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Saturday, June 23, 2012

The Project

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Updated 6/23/2021


As I mentioned in the previous post, I’m working on a little project and I’d love to include YOU in it.

Now, I know what you’re probably thinking, Teachinfourth, you’ve been so hush-hush with this whole thing anyway…just what the heck is it? Well, I’m not going to tell you just now—that’s just how it goes with the things you want to make sure are awesome before you tell the whole world about them.

So, what did I need from you?

What I’m looking for are your original quotes to sprinkle throughout my little endeavor.

It was this morning that I realized that some of you might not be comfortable sharing your personal made-up quotes on a Facebook page, or might not even have joined the social medium as of yet (oh, I think your pager just went off).

To remedy this, I would like to invite you to submit your original quotes to this project that will allow you to be a part of something bigger than any of us are alone. You are more than welcome to submit them in the comments section here or—if you’re feeling a little bit better about it this way—drop me an email with them at teachinfourth@yahoo.com.

I would love for them to be thoughtful, funny, or just plain, ‘you.’

Since I hope to get far more quotes that I could use (because you’re going to step it up, right?) For those quotes that are a little bit too difficult for me to decide between, I will have an impartial party do the dirty work.

So, now…are you ready?

Here are just a few of the categories that I’m still looking for quotes in:

being attractive
being hilarious
dreams
nightmares
daylight savings
deeply thinking
something annoying
milk cartons
breakfast
getting stung
money
being bored
genes or brains
music
popularity
unicorns
camping
Hogwarts
board games
driving
geysers
something ghetto
being a new student
book reports
something creepy
hot dogs
competing
winning
defense mechanisms of creatures
monsters
locked doors
Christmas gifts
being cold, snow, or winter
being mistaken for another person
gratitude
homework in school
problems
punishment
making a confession
embarrassing songs
cell phones
real men and pink
diminishing return

I'd like quotes perhaps something like these:

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
― Bill Watterson



It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
— Barbara Kingsolver



As far as I’m concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway.
― Bill Watterson 



My report card always said, ‘Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students’.
— Jim Carrey



After a fellow gets famous it doesn’t take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.
— Kin Hubbard



Remember, these can even be quotes made up by your children, grandparents, or that eccentric aunt that is closeted up in your attic.

In advance,

Thank you.

Friday, June 22, 2012

Media of the Week - Call Me, Maybe

Pin It There are songs people introduce us to. We listen to them and think, “Wow, this song is amazing!”

Some time later we hear the original artist, and we realize that the song we’d been listening to was simply a cover. Yet, we still like the cover better than the artist who originally performed it.

Alex Goot and company owned this…sorry Carly.



By the way, I set the timecode to start at the beginning of the song so you're missing out on the first 42 seconds of dialogue.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Project - I Need Your Help...

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Hello, my friends.

I’m currently working on a little project, but what I need is your help. What I’m asking you to do is to make up either funny or serious quotes on certain subjects that I’ll be posting several times a day on both my main Facebook page and blog fan page. I will continue to do this until I have enough of the quotes I need. (I will be asking for help thirty or forty times).

Why am I asking you to do this? Well, first off, I’d like to have you all involved in my project—and second—if I use quotes by famous people without permission, it’s most likely a violation of copyright.

If you would like to submit a quote, two, three, or even more on any given subject, that would be appreciated. I’ll be using the quotes that best fit the subject matter (and by posting your made-up quote, you are giving me permission to use it). I will—of course—give you credit by first name if I use your quote in the project.

Please don’t be offended if yours isn’t chosen, but be creative and keep on submitting them. Ask your grandparents to make something up, your kids, or somebody else you think could come up with a good one. Just make sure that you provide their name (the first is all I need) if you’re submitting one for them.

Remember though, I can’t use quotes by famous people…I need your quotes!

I’m sure this goes without saying, but please keep your quotes to a G or PG rating.

Below are some of the quotes I wanted to use, but like I said before, copyright violations aren't any fun.

Oh, and I will be deleting the posts on Facebook a few hours/a day after I post them so that they aren't cumbering up the pages. I will copy over the quotes that are the most applicable.


“We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up.”

— Phyllis Diller


“When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name it means trouble.”

— Mark Twain


“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly.”

— Arnold Edinborough


“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”

― Bill Watterson


“I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.”

― Mary Ann Shaffer


“I’d hate to have a kid like me.”

― Bill Watterson


“Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.”

― Bill Watterson

“Girls are like slugs—they probably serve some purpose, but it’s hard to imagine what.”

― Bill Watterson


“If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?”

― Bill Watterson


“The way Calvin’s brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.”

― Bill Watterson


There’s no problem so awful, that you cant add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

― Bill Watterson


Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.

― Bill Watterson


Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, ...and he’s in prison... I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.

― Bill Watterson


As far as I’m concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway.

― Bill Watterson


You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.

― Bill Watterson


I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

― Bill Watterson


An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

— Roald Dahl


I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.

— Roald Dahl


I’ve never let my school interfere with my education.

— Mark Twain


I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

— Yogi Berra


If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

— Edgar W. Howe


The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

— Salvador Dali


You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

— Franklin P. Jones



Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”

― Roald Dahl


Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

― Roald Dahl


My report card always said, ‘Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students’.

— Jim Carrey


A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often.

— Author Unknown


Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

— Harold Hulbert


It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

— Barbara Kingsolver


Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.

— Yogi Berra


When I get into trouble at school I’d like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I’d like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.

— Daniel Radcliffe


If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn’t be that, I’d want to be a superhero.

— Vin Diesel


After a fellow gets famous it doesn’t take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

— Kin Hubbard


We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

— Katharine Hepburn

Monday, June 18, 2012

Weekly Kodachrome - Distant Roads

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I am going to be honest here...it's been busy for the past few weeks. My blog has suffered for true writing effort lately; however, there's a great reason.

I'll tell you later.

I've been so busy that I have only taken out my camera once this week, and that was for a shoot - not for fun. I missed the Weekly Kodachrome last week as well. Instead of forgoing it altogether, I thumbed through a few shots and saw this one. This was taken about two years ago when Arlene was taken ill. I remember jumping in my car - just needing to get away - and taking roads I'd never before traveled. I wasn't concerned about getting lost, because I didn't care.

I remember getting out of my car and standing on a long stretch of highway and watching the sun set. There was an ant hill nearby because I remember them crawling up my legs when I stood in one place too long.

The sun was just finishing it's day and melting the skyline.

As I watched it, I thought about endings - and beginnings which were one day sure to be. I thought about dreams I've had...and seemingly set on the back burner for another lifetime. Yet, later never seems to arrive and we set our aspirations on that dusty shelf time and time again.

Oh, I'm much too busy, we say.

And we are. But if it's really important to us, shouldn't we put in a little more effort?

In a week or two I'll probably let you in on what has been keeping me busy, but until then...follow your dreams, even if you're afraid that you might be wandering unfamiliar roads.

If the journey were worth starting, then it's probably worth finishing as well.


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Did you take a photo that made you smile? If so, feel free to include it in the linky below. 


Remember, by adding your photo into the Weekly Kodachrome meme you are agreeing to do one of the following: display the linky or button to your post, or link back to this post so that everyone gets a little more exposure for the image they’ve uploaded. Those who don’t help to ’share the love’ will have their links removed. You can find the code for the linky here.







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Friday, June 15, 2012

Media of the Week - Ordinary People

Pin It There are those things in life that inspire you. They push you to want to be greater than who you currently are. They motivate you to do something, to rise above and achieve that which you thought perhaps unattainable before. They cause you to look at your dreams.

We do not do these things for accolades from the crowds, nor for the public hailing of our achievements.

We do this for only one person…ourselves.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Moments with Joey - License to Drive

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SCENE 1, INTERIOR. AFTERNOON, CLASSROOM. The class has left for the day; the teacher is packing up his items to go. As he slides his computer into the case, a fifth grade boy ‘drives’ around the classroom on the teacher’s wheeled chair. He is making vrooming noises as he does so.

JOEY: Are you driving home tonight, Mr. Z?

TEACHER: Yep.

JOEY: You know, if you wanted, I could drive you…

TEACHER: Wouldn’t you need a license to drive, Joey?

[The boy grins].

JOEY: Oh, I’ve got a license, Mr. Z.

TEACHER: Really?

JOEY: Yep, I got it when I was ten.

TEACHER: A license for what?

JOEY: Driving you crazy.

[Pause].

TEACHER: Yeah, isn’t that the truth…

[Fade to black].

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Weekly Kodachrome - The Pitcher

Pin It “The pitcher is the most important player on the field, and on his skills and judgement depends half the battle in a match.”
- Henry Chadwick



Standing alone on the mound
The ball is cradled in my hand
My mitt - with its smell of worn leather
It fills my nostrils with memory
The batter approaches
He stands at home plate
A look of determination fills his eyes
The thrill of the game pulses inside me
I lean back on one leg
The ball is fired from my hand
Like a rocket, it speeds onward
I hear the swoosh of the bat
It cuts the empty air

One.
         Two.
                  Three strikes.

My dad calls my name from the stands.
I pause, wave, and smile.

Baseball.


If you'd like to see the rest of the shots from this particular series, they may be viewed here. Also, it appears that Mindy and Rachel were the two winners from the photography contest. If you both would please send me an email to let me know the shot you'd like and the size thereof, I'd be grateful.

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Did you take a photo that made you smile? If so, feel free to include it in the linky below. 


Remember, by adding your photo into the Weekly Kodachrome meme you are agreeing to do one of the following: display the linky or button to your post, or link back to this post so that everyone gets a little more exposure for the image they’ve uploaded. Those who don’t help to ’share the love’ will have their links removed. You can find the code for the linky here.





You might also want to try Sweet Shot Tuesdays, Show off Your Shot, Your Sunday Best, and Community Global for other great photo memes.

Friday, June 1, 2012

Baseball on the Block

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My friend's son wanted me to attend this baseball game a few days ago. I couldn't help but snap a few photos while I was there. However, it makes me wish I'd brought my powerful zoom lens along.





 



 

  
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