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[txdiva]

^^^Your sig is TOO funny!!!

[lostnfound117]

Nupe 4 Life siggy had me rolling!

[CrimsonTide4]

broken girls become broken women become mothers become broken mirrors become warriors become broken poems become broken backs. the only thing intact is the cycle.

Did you write this yourself? Very profound.

[DSTinguished1]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
this just happened yesterday! i was like "are you SERIOUS?"

i might be extremely late but i read your siggy and it had me rolling!!

You need to start some type of column about your teaching experiences. They are hilarious!!

[soulfulremix]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4

Did you write this yourself? Very profound.

Dang, CT4... Im just seeing this.

Nope, I didn't write that. It comes from writing by Aulelei Love. Here is the piece in its entirety.

Be Good to your Daughters

oh, see that skin?
its the same she's been standing in
since the day she saw you walking away
now she's left cleaning up the mess you made.."
- john mayer

yesterday, i saw a girl, maybe twelve or thirteen, walking several paces behind her father (i think..it was some sort of male presence). we were all headed in the same direction, toward our cars (mine parked a few cars down from theirs), so i witnessed the entire journey from store front to car handle..& the loud silence of their footsteps. the poet in me saw the frown of her shoulders. the angst in his stride. the way he held his keys as if they were freedom. & i saw the heaviness of her legs. how her flip flops did not make that gum popping noise. she walked with aged disappointment. thirteen year olds should glide on air. they should hop. pirouette to the teeny bopper songs in their heads. they should travel on giggles. they should hummingbird fly haphazardly with invincibility. she did not. she, lowered head, small steps, lazy arms, empty hands, just followed closely behind his shadow.

& i wondered if they sat in silence the whole way home.

& if prior to me seeing them exit glass doors, if she had smiled & glided & hop scotched her ways across his patience. maybe she wanted too short of a skirt. maybe she couldn't find anything in the department store & this was the 4th one in a row. maybe she muttered "i hate you" under cherry flavored breath. & maybe he was just a stand-in dad.

& i wondered if when both sets of heavy feet cross the threshold of "home" who would the mother kiss first? would she mend the day with a cheesecake & joke? would she take sides? or would she run off & vacation too long in a hot shower?

& i wondered if the girl would slip into her room comfortably. escaped into a journal or telephone conversation or mtv, wishing to be too grown or too gone or too much of both.
if the father would sink into the couch with regret. if he would recall when her little legs would dangle from around his neck at the county fair, or the sweetness of "da da" being squealed directly into his ear.

& i wonder about the moment when everything changed.

& i wondered if she would always consider walking with his shadow her place. & if she would love in silence. or hate in silence. or live in silence. i wondered if she would swallow her sentences whole in fear of being left behind. or maybe she'd one day wake up screaming at life. bicker at clocks. bitch at sunsets for casting shadows at all. i wondered about what type of woman she'd become. what type of lover would she be? what type of mother she'd birth.

broken girls become broken women become mothers become broken mirrors become warriors become broken poems become broken backs. the only thing intact is the cycle.

be good to your daughters.

© Aulelei Love, read more of her work at http://www.sheflypaper.com

[CrimsonTide4]

WOW!! SoulfulRemix, that is really beautiful and profound. Thanks for passing the whole piece along. I'll check the site out.

[DC_Zeta1920]

Honeykiss1974's sig

Some people are like Slinkies. They're not really good for anything, but it's still fun to push them down the stairs.

[soulfulremix]

I LOVE A Christmas Story!!!

[mulattogyrl]

Originally posted by soulfulremix
I LOVE A Christmas Story!!!

I love it too! I've seen it a gazillion times and still watch the marathon.

[NiaX]

Originally posted by mulattogyrl
I love it too! I've seen it a gazillion times and still watch the marathon.

Christmas ain't Christmas without watchin that movie....

the leg lamp....the duck...the foot to the fa'head down the slide...

[btb87]

[hijack]

MeezDiscreet, it really isn't a funny situation, but I'm cracking up at your students (in your signature). And these will be the very students that come to me in a few years with much attitude wondering why they have to take preparatory classes before taking actual college-level courses.

[/hijack]

[RedefinedDiva]

Originally posted by btb87
[hijack]

MeezDiscreet, it really isn't a funny situation, but I'm cracking up at your students (in your signature). And these will be the very students that come to me in a few years with much attitude wondering why they have to take preparatory classes before taking actual college-level courses.

[/hijack]

HC I didn't even notice the siggy until you pointed it out. Those types of answers were the part of reason I stopped teaching.... It aggravates a person when they probably have gone over those words for days and weeks, only to get that kind of foolishness back on the quizzes. *sigh*

[btb87]

Originally posted by RedefinedDiva
HC I didn't even notice the siggy until you pointed it out. Those types of answers were the part of reason I stopped teaching.... It aggravates a person when they probably have gone over those words for days and weeks, only to get that kind of foolishness back on the quizzes. *sigh*

Lemme tell you. . . I really like doing what I do (advisor at a community college) but it really takes a very special person to teach, and I know fa sho that I'm not one of those special people. I have parents that come in when their child has to take prep courses and of course blame the school for not teaching their child and not preparing them for college. Never have I heard a parent admit to not spending enough time with their child or supervising their homework or taking SOME responsibility for their child not reaching their peak.

I know teaching is hard work. I know teachers get tired, and I know that there are some that are in it for the "summers off and getting off at 2:45" and various other reasons.

I can't imagine reviewing information over and over and over and getting answers like this. I salute you and other teachers - past, present and future.

CTfo' I'm sorry once again for the hijack. Hope you're feeling better soon.

[Lady of Pearl]

Thanks Soror for your comments about Teachers it's a hard job but somebody's got to do it!

[soulfulremix]

MulattoGyrl

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. ~ El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

I love that quote!!

Sis, you are DOING IT with the quote and the RBG, for an added effect.