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Monday's Quote of the Week: Fall

For the first time since early May, I have had goosebumps when walking outside.  I must say it is about time.  After having one of the hottest summers, I am ready for the crisp air of fall.  On Friday morning, I had my first cup of Caramel Apple Cider for the season!


Here are some quotes!

Bittersweet October.  The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.  ~Carol Bishop Hipps


Delicious autumn!  My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.  ~George Eliot


Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.  ~Elizabeth Lawrence 

This is your Carolina

I thought this was a powerful video that the University of South Carolina created for its annual giving campaign.  I am rather impressed and thought I should share. 

Monday's Quote of the Week: Travel

Monday I was traveling for the university for which I work.  This weekend I will be traveling for my friend's wedding.  In turn, I am thinking about how I need a vacation.  This has brought me to establish my thoughts for the week to be about traveling.   


Here are some quotes:

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.  ~St. Augustine


I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.  ~Lillian Smith


Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.  ~Mark Twain

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/travelandtour.html

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.  ~George Bernard Shaw



I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.  ~Caskie Stinnett



A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.  ~Lemony Snicket 

Photo Friday: Let's Go Redlegs!

Great American Ballpark

My Inner Geek

Deep down inside I love all things about education.  I love to research, read, and study about educational policy, performance, finance, trends, and much, much more.  So the inner geek in me is awaiting a viewing of "Waiting for 'Superman.'"  Check out the trailer and take the pledge!

Lusting Over Things on Thursdays: Stationery

I believe in letters whether they are love letters or thank you notes or letters of friendship.  I believe they are necessary in this world of technology.  Writing thank you notes is extremely important to me.  I think I have written one for almost every Christmas and birthday gift I have received.  I hope people value letters the same way that I do.

Moreover, I love beautiful, fun, and pretty stationery.  Here are a few of my favorites:

photo: http://www.etsy.com/shop/EvenAndy?ref=top_trail

photo: http://www.riflepaperco.com

photo: http://www.etsy.com/shop/adriennewong?ref=top_trail

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.  ~Phyllis Theroux

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters.  You can't reread a phone call.  ~Liz Carpenter

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose.  In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires... ~Elizabeth Hardwick