Today's Quote: Linus Pauling

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The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

~ Linus Pauling

Today's Quote: Colette

 

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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

~ Colette

Call for Submissions

IMPERFECT II: poems about perspective for middle schoolers

Being human means losing perspective sometimes. We focus on the one negative comment instead of the ten positive ones. We think we're the only one who had something really embarrassing happen to us, or that we won't be able to get out from under a problem we're having. Just like an artist draws using perspective to show the larger picture, poetic perspective can help us have a balanced view.

History House Publishers is having an open call for submissions for IMPERFECT II which will end June 30th.

Possible topics:

Taking baby steps when you are overwhelmed

Not making a mountain out of a molehill

Feeling something good that happens (not minimizing it)

Not assuming it is about you

Not taking insults to heart

Finding the good

Being your own measuring stick (not comparing yourself to others)

Not blaming yourself for things you didn't have control over

Avoiding negative self-talk

Is it really a catastrophe?

Other perspective-related things...

Poems can be any form. Submit as many poems as you would like. Funny, serious, historical, dual language...we are looking for all different takes on the topics at hand for our middle school audience.

Please include your name, email address, and mailing address with your poem. Send your submission to perspectiveanthology@gmail.com by June 30th. A selection committee will blind-read the poems and acceptances will be sent out by September. Young poets can submit, with permission of their guardian. Poets will be paid $25 per poem and a paperback copy of IMPERFECT II.

Thank you for your support of this project! 

 

Today's Quote: George Washington

 

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth...

~ George Washington

Today's Quote: Sophia Loren

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

~ Sophia Loren

Today's Quote: Wendell Berry

On Earth Day, and every day, be kind.  --DM

 

 

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There is an uncanny resemblance between our behavior toward each other and our behavior toward the earth.

~ Wendell Berry

Today's Quote: Winston Churchill

 

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

~ Winston Churchill

 

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

 

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To the ant, a few drops of rain is a flood.

~ Japanese proverb

Today's Quote: Herbert Spencer

 

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The ultimate result of shielding me from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

~  Herbert Spencer

Today's Quote: Doris Lessing

 

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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

~ Doris Lessing

Today's Quote: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

 

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It is not with an axe that the violin is played.

~ Welsh proverb

Today's Quote: Adelaide Anne Procter

 

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We always may be what we might have been.

~ Adelaide Anne Procter