- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
- Expectation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020