Front Porch Indiana: Do You Remember That Teacher?

You know the one, every school had one. The one that was more like a drill sergeant than a teacher. In my high school she was the girls gym teacher. The kids all called her "Jan the Man". Not very nice, but uncannily appropriate.

Miss Floppsy keeps everyone in formation around here. Doesn't matter what species you are either. You dont' dare get out of line when Miss Floppsy is around. Even the roosters are afraid of her.

Favorite Quotes

"Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more."

- Tasha Tudor

"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

- Albert Einstein

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."

- Oscar Wilde

Favorite Poetry

The creaking silence of age.

I like Old.

Great Depression

worn-in (not worn-out)

favorite quilt

classic car.

I like the way Old feels.

Sheets washed a thousand times

frayed around the stitching

busting from stories.

I like the way Old sounds.

Creaky wooden floors

heaters that pop and snap

doors that slam like they really mean it!

I like the way Old looks.

chipped paint

worn corners

rust

not from neglect or carelessness, but from use.

I'd live in an Old house

with a big Old front porch.

One that heaves to tell me someone is home

and echos of little feet running across it.

I like Old.

~Holy Glasgow

Front Porch Indiana

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Do You Remember That Teacher?

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