cj

Writer. Avid reader. Musician. Educator. Poet. Adventurer. Pronouns (she/her)

[𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇 @pr0ud_americans]

Stop what you're doing and watch this.

Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover, speaking from roughly 160,000 miles away from Earth, just dropped a powerful perspective on life and our planet.🚀🙏

From that distance, everything looks different.
Worth hearing.

[cj @artsybookworm]

Check out @sharemylesson's Hamilton and the Big Apple Educator Sweepstakes for a chance to win 1 of 3 grand prizes to see @HamiltonMusical on Broadway. I just entered and you can, too! https://t.co/sQY1CmRE3J https://t.co/jQuHCtDETw

[cj @artsybookworm]

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[cj @artsybookworm]

So after an entire month of participating in #napowrimo I decided to continue writing on my blog. Check it out. https://t.co/jNuCkFbi02

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

The fact that we know what the verdict SHOULD be but remain unsure of what it WILL be speaks volumes about our nation. We have work to do.

[cj @artsybookworm]

Always invest in people.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

6 years ago today I raised my company's min wage to $70k. Fox News called me a socialist whose employees would be on bread lines.

Since then our revenue tripled, we're a Harvard Business School case study & our employees had a 10x boom in homes bought.

Always invest in people.

[cj @artsybookworm]

@drdrew @drdrew um.... it does. Not sure where you’ve been, but my little yellow travel vaccine card is quite full. Yellow Fever, for one, is MANDATORY.

[cj @artsybookworm]

@HeyMPT @HeyMPT AS IT SHOULD BE! So very thrilled to order my copy. I only wish #RHE were here to enjoy the beauty of this success.

[cj @artsybookworm]

I just placed my order... #RHE and @HeyMPT .... Two of my all-time favorites.

[Rachel Held Evans (1981-2019) @rachelheldevans]

"But whenever you aren't sure what God is like, think about what makes you feel safe, what makes you feel brave, and what makes you feel loved. That's what God is like."
-Rachel Held Evans from "What is God Like?"

Preorder at https://t.co/E7EN0USWV0 or wherever books are sold.

[cj @artsybookworm]

@DiGiorno Mushroom and black olive! Yum!

[cj @artsybookworm]

❤️❤️❤️ Somebody told a lie one time....

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

“Yes, I’m Black.
I’m proud of it.
I’m Black and beautiful.”

#MLK #BlackHistoryMonth

[cj @artsybookworm]

@ladygaga You did us all proud. Played it over and over in each class I taught yesterday along with @KamalaHarris swearing in, @JLo, and @TheAmandaGorman’s achingly powerful poem. You ALL made me weepy proud to be an American. Putting aside my lessons to play them to all my classes today.

[UN Women @UN_Women]

Lift.
Each.
Other.
Up.

🎤: @melindagates

[cj @artsybookworm]

Never give up on democracy.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

If anyone had a right to question whether our democracy was worth redeeming, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because in the face of billy clubs and lynchings, poll taxes and literacy tests, he never gave in to violence, never waved a traitorous flag or gave up on our country.

[cj @artsybookworm]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/F2uV76aIuU

[cj @artsybookworm]

And this from one of the most outspokenly “pro-life”administrations. #thingsthatmakeyougohmmm

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

“To put that into historical context, the Federal Government will have executed more than three times as many people in the last six months than it had in the previous six decades”

[cj @artsybookworm]

@clay_mcch No. It doesn’t make any sense. Teacher’s salaries should be much higher, especially considering the level of (continuing) education required by States.

[Clay McChristian @clay_mcch]

So Biden’s $15 minimum wage comes out to $31,200 a year for a 40 hour work week. The starting salary for a beginning teacher in Texas is $33,660. So a person working a minimum wage job will be making almost the same as a teacher with a college degree. Does this make any sense? 🤷‍♂️

[cj @artsybookworm]

@EKingstonBooks thank ye kindly fine lassie.... There’s nothing like a good seachanty to get me Friday rollin’.

[cj @artsybookworm]

#UnlockingUs New fav podcast.

[Brené Brown @BreneBrown]

Unlocking Us is back today with a solo episode about what’s weighing on my heart and spirit: the carefully laid path of dehumanization that led to the insurrection at the Capitol last week. https://t.co/MVW1JrlUbD