Researcher ◆ Climber ◆ West Coaster
To all my fabulous teachers, mentors, friends, students, and colleagues who keep my fire lit! Especially to my son, who plays outside the box and asks me the most profound questions at 3:30 in the morning. 🙂 I’m always learning. Love to you all! #WorldTeachersDay
Let’s help Dexter get to the top! Time is running out! Vote now!
#LoveYouDexterAndWill #HeARTsSpeak #CelebrateShelterAnimals
And Will, is that a Boston College blanket underneath I see? I smell Latin! Santa went to Harvard dude. 🙂
Al-Qarawiyyin library in Fez, Morocco. Founded by a woman in the 9th century. Wow! #Libraries
It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. ~ Martha Graham, Dancer and Choreographer
“Manuscript is accepted!”
#ChickLitForAcademics
“The economic future does not belong to resource extraction industries. Communities that host these businesses know what I mean. The resource extractors come, they dig, drill, pump and spread money around but also strain local services and infrastructure. Eventually they leave, and the local folks get to clean up the mess. There’s always a good economic reason that extraction comes to an end. The price of the resource might drop, the resource becomes harder and more expensive to get to, or cheaper alternatives are discovered. For the coal business, it’s been fracking and natural gas that caused them pain. For coal workers, it was mountain top removal and other mechanized forms of extraction that reduced the employment in mining. It is unbelievably deceptive of the President of the United States to articulate an economic strategy that calls for the revival of these businesses. The coal miners know that they need to prepare for a different type of work. They certainly know their children need to be prepared for change.” ~ More here on: We’ll Always Have Paris: Trump’s Impact on the Climate Agreement by Arturo Herrera
“I’ve been called man because I appeared outwardly strong. It has been said that that I use drugs (No, I have always had far too much integrity to behave dishonestly in order to gain an advantage). It has been said I don’t belong in Women’s sports — that I belong in Men’s — because I look stronger than many other women do. (No, I just work hard and I was born with this badass body and proud of it).” ~ Serena Williams letter to her mother. #StrongIsBeautiful #PowerOfBlackWomen
JACQUELINE P. ASHBY 