Text:
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
~ Emily Post
Photo by Jack Delano.
A blog for the book IMPERFECT: a poetry anthology for middle schoolers about mistakes
How can we make the most of useful mistakes and do our best to fix the ones that need fixing? Poetry can help us figure it out.
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Today's Quote: Emily Post
Something to take to heart at dinner today. Happy Thanksgiving! --DM
Text:
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
~ Emily Post
Photo by Jack Delano.
Text:
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
~ Emily Post
Photo by Jack Delano.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Today's Quote: Baltasar Gracián
Text:
The greatest of sages can commit one mistake, but not two; he may fall into error, but he doesn’t lie down and make his home there.
~ Baltasar Gracián
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Today's Quote: Stephen Colbert
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You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.
~ Stephen Colbert
Photo by David Shankbone.
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