friday’s five, may 19

Here are some things I heard this week. What have you heard?

• We have a hundred years to establish life on another planet before it’s too late (hmmmmm.)

 

• Temper (verb) — to soften, to harden, to make more resilient, to attune (click here to read the full story)

 

• From Rita Springer’s new release Battles
  • You go before I know
    That You’ve gone to win my war
    You come back with the head of my enemy
    You come back and You call it my victory

 

• I would love to have a further conversation about your resume/interest in our organization. (finally!)

 

• I heard the sound of one of my students unsuccessfully try not to pass gas during lesson. My younger students will immediately joke or apologize while laughing, but this student is a preteen and embarrassed. So I made the choice to ignore it. But when he did it the second time I went ahead and asked, “Barking spiders?”  The tension broke, he laughed, and, yep, did it again for the third time.