Lisa Dean

Proud wife, mother, retired educator and granny!

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@MidwesternDoc My mother has been taking SSRIs since 1974. She has had 26 shock treatments over the years. Now she has quickly progressing dementia which doctors say IS NOT Alzheimer’s. I blame big pharma!

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“No one is coming to save you. If your life isn't what you want it to be, do something about it. If your neighborhood or community is falling apart, do something about it. If you don't have the friendships, career, or relationship you desire, do something about it. Yes, you will stumble. Yes, you will fail at times. Yes, there will be moments when you doubt yourself and wonder if the effort is worth it. Keep going anyway. Get back up, dust yourself off, learn from your mistakes, and take another step forward. Success rarely belongs to the most talented or the luckiest. More often, it belongs to those who refuse to quit. Every worthwhile achievement is built through persistence, resilience, and determination. Keep going. Keep improving. Keep fighting for the life you want. Your efforts will pay off in the end. Never give up.”

-J.B. Lloyd

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@ThoNg676733 @mikeroweworks We need to encourage artists to do more songs like this that encourage hard working, blue collar Americans. I can still hear my truck driver daddy sitting at our table strumming his guitar singing this song. Great song!

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@0Beanie05923291 I agree! Our state has free pre k and they start with letter sounds etc. like kindergarten 20 years ago. Let them just play and socialize. They are just 4 years old!

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@0Beanie05923291 We used to read Johnny Tremaine in my classes! The students loved it. Also Summer of my German Soldier. Great historical fiction!

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@SqSehrish 14, 12 kids, two parents

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@DanBurmawy The only issue I see, as a mother who raised two sons, is to talk to him about the pushing incident. Just explain it’s not being kind but also don’t berate him. Boys are naturally aggressive. They learn control as they age. The rest I wouldn’t even mention to him!

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@RepBrandonGill Way to go Superman! Keep pushing truth!

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@WellsJorda89710 As a retired educator, I said the same thing. Two lives, two families have been destroyed over an impulsive child’s behavior. I saw this kind of quick impulsive, destructive behavior often in the last few years that I taught. Parents, pleasetalk to your children more about this!

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@GAFollowers Praying for this young man!

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

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[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@mattvanswol So all but 20 were illegal? He must be charged!

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@ThrillaRilla369 I see two sets of parents who are losing children. However, Karmelo’s mother will see her son live. Austin’s will not. As a former HS educator, please talk to your children about impulsive behavior. One moment destroyed two lives. It was preventable! 😢

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@FreckledLiberty Not insane, just racist sadly. Insane people don’t color coordinate their scarf and sash so well! However, I guess her voodoo curses didn’t work.

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@ThrillaRilla369 I’d pray Father God your will be done! Then I’d turn on the TV to see how the Left is blaming DJT for the invasion. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

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[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@FreddyLA7 Go to the aquarium!

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

The power of words…

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

A book has one sentence to make you enter its world.

The great ones do it instantly. They pull you in, disturb you, charm you, or make you feel that something important has already begun.

Here are 20 of my favorite opening lines.

What is yours?

1. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

– 1984 by George Orwell

2. “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure.”

– The Stranger by Albert Camus

3. “Once, there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids.”

– The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

4. “Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”

– 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

5. “You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter.”

– Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

6. “Call me Ishmael.”

– Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

7. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

– Gospel of John 1:1 (New Testament, Bible)

8. “All this happened, more or less.”

– Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut

9. “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

– The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

10. “This is the saddest story I have ever heard.”

– The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

11. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

– Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

12. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.”

– A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

13. “In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself in a dark forest, for the straight path was lost.”

-The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

14. “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

– Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

15. “In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.”

- The Bible

16. “Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm.”

- Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

17. “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.”

- A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

18. “Read in the Name of your Lord Who created — Created man from a clinging clot (or clot of blood).”

- The Quran

19. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

20. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

– One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Bonus:

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

– Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1 (attributed to Lao Tzu, Daoism)

[Lisa Dean @ldean1980]

@CultureExploreX I used Tale of Two Cities opening sentence for so many lessons as a HS English teacher! Simply perfect. Hooking the reader, Compare and contrast, vocabulary, vivid language, imagery, etc.