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Diaries from the Front Lines of Education

The greatest lesson I ever learned from my days of selling life insurance was that if you prompt people to talk about themselves and then act as a receptive listener, it will build rapport. Fortunately, I no longer have to make the Memento Mori pivot and instead I get to listen to people tell amazing stories about their lives.

Below is a condensed version of the Music teacher talking at me non-stop for half an hour. I could not remember everything she said, but trust me that I am not making any of this up.

There used to be a dedicated music room in this elementary School, but now she has a cart that she takes into the different classes, and all of her music equipment is stored in the back of the art room.

When I told her that starting next week I will be a truck driver doing daytime deliveries, she told me that her brother's friend is a truck driver and that he makes good money because he does night time deliveries. We both agreed that it couldn't be us up driving at night.

On the topic of working night shifts, she told me that her brother used to be a police officer. But then he had to take a leave of absence, and didn't come back.

She explained that police departments are like fraternities, very close-knit, and that if you don't get along then they exclude you. In fact, police chief did not like her brother and illegally conspired to get rid of him. Apparently when you return from a leave of absence to law enforcement, you have to take a psych eval. But the police chief instructed the evaluator to fail her brother no matter what so that he could not return.

Even though this breaks human resource laws, the brother didn't really want to work as a cop anymore anyway, so he took this as his opportunity to switch careers. He is now an electrician and he loves it.

She and her brother are like two peas in a pod. They fight a lot because they're so similar. They also both love Star Wars.

This is when she asked me if I wanted to hear an interesting story, and I said yes. (This would be the last time she would ask me for any input. The rest of the conversation was her talking and me nodding or making acknowledgement noises.)

She said that the principal of this school was specifically out to get her, just like the police chief was out to get her brother. In fact, the principal had put together this big case letter explaining why she should be removed from her position. But her brother wasn't about to let that happen again. He helped her to lawyer up, and together they wrote a perfect rebuttal that pointed out all the ways the principal was breaking human resources law.

There are a lot of problems in the world. She really believes that humans are out of touch with our humanity. There's supposed to be a balance of masculine and feminine energy. Not enough men accept the femininity that is naturally a part of them. Same with women not accepting their masculinity.

She had a soul reading once. I don't remember anything she said about that.

<Trigger Warning for Childhood Sex Abuse> She was raised Catholic, but she isn't religious anymore. She, her brother, and his friend, were all in the choir. This was very formative for her love of music (she became a music teacher after all). Decades later she found out that the choir director was an abuser, and her brother's friend was a victim. She found out when everyone else found out about the widespread cover-ups. By then, the friend had suffered years of depression. By that point, the abusive choir director had relocated to another parish out west. Her brother's friend then dedicated himself to tracking him down and helping the families of his more recent victims. There were people whose children had committed suicide and never knew why. I don't know if the abuser was ever taken to justice, but I choose to believe that he got pushed off a cliff in Idaho and was never mourned.

<Trigger Warning for religious trauma> Her brother was safe, and she credits her mother for that, thanks to a Prayer of Protection (capitalization added by me because it sounds like a D&D buff) her mother placed on him. But the whole revelation caused a crisis of faith in her. She started investigating the history of the church. She didn't tell me the details of what she found, except that the church wasn't built on a foundation of love, and that everything they ever taught her was wrong. I didn't ask what exactly she meant by that. Instead I let her continue.

Everything they teach us is wrong. She didn't elaborate on what this means, except to say that she doesn't believe in Flat Earth.

Everything you need to know about the comings and goings of the world can be read in the stars. She and her brother live Star Wars and Star Trek and all those. You don't need to watch the news if you know what it means when, for instance, Mars is in retrograde.

Besides, a great wave of photons is coming. From the galaxy. Their light will awaken the next level of human consciousness. We're literally coming out of a Dark Age into a Light Age.

She asked me if I knew about Dimensions (capitalization added by me). People like her, and perhaps me, are living in the Fourth Dimension. Some people are still living in the Third Dimension, and their minds won't be ready to accept transcendence into the Fifth Dimension. She seemed to be looking forward to physically ascending to a higher order of existence. Like in Stargate.

Humanity has about 100 years until this photon wave fully takes effect. At that time, the world will finally know peace. There won't be any more government because we won't need anymore government. Things like that, you know?

She told me that humans have twelve strands of DNA. But children born after 2012 are different. They have two additional strands of DNA, one of which is their. Crystal DNA. (Note, this isn't the first time she said Crystal like it meant something, but by this point I was having enough trouble keeping track). This is why the current generation is so crazy not crazy but ... (I think the word she was looking for is "restless") ... because they weren't made for the System. These children are going to be the Sovereigns who will lead us into the coming Light Age (100 years from now)

Humanity has ascended before, twice, at other places and times in the galaxy. But this time we will get to take our planet with us! If that happens, we will become a Type 2 civilization. That means we can join the other galactic civilizations. Like in Star Wars.

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This is kind of a bop tho ngl

Le Poisson Steve 🐟

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A mother's love will always stay with you.

Happy mother's day to those who celebrate. You are loved. ♥️

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I never really know what to say when I post stuff. I dunno... I'm still here? Here's some art?

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@inspired-lesson-plans wanted me to reblog this with some of the pictures I took when we went to visit a nature preserve the other day.

1. Young Bald Eagle (probably about 2y/o)

2. Cormorant

3. Osprey w/ chick

4. Snowy Egret

5. Osprey in a comically large nest.

6. Above Osprey's long suffering girlfriend who kept telling him to get the smaller nest but he wouldn't listen because men amirite?

7. Flock of Cormorants, a couple of Great Egrets, and a Tern (Forster's Tern, if that matters to anyone)

8. Flock of Cormorants again. I think one of them got a fish?

9. Red-Winged Blackbird (I used to always think these were Orioles).

10. Either a Great Egret or Snowy Egret. Not entirely sure.

There! You happy now, teach? :P

I'm taking the day off. More posts tomorrow

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The base is cotton batting, cotton balls, and crochet thread, actually. The foam clay is only on the nose, the paws, the ears and the end of the tail. Oh and the pants, but that was added later. @mouseshouses any advice would be appreciated 🫡

Sculpture I've been working on for the past couple of days. Please ignore the fur that is currently falling off of this poor lil guy. Do any fibre artists or sculptors on here have any advice on how to make the fur look more natural? Also, how to make the seams between fur and clay less obvious?

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Sculpture I've been working on for the past couple of days. Please ignore the fur that is currently falling off of this poor lil guy. Do any fibre artists or sculptors on here have any advice on how to make the fur look more natural? Also, how to make the seams between fur and clay less obvious?

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Super useful! Thanks for the references.

You have a great eye for painting with values.. please share your resources with me 😫

yeag here you go

head lighting ref tool

simple 3d shapes

obviously they wont get you the whole way there but they are handy practice and reference

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My dog found all of her old bones and is sitting atop her hoard like a greedy dragon.

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Very cute doggo art!

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In regards of the Trump government scraping all trans inclusion in its queer information portion of its websites I have made this thing. Spread the word. Don't let them pretend we never existed.

P.S: Don't like! Reblog! <3

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Magic runs in my blood.

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Good ol'fashioned Americana.

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A few things that have been living on my tablet for a little while! I've never been very good at giving context to pictures, but, yeah RP OCs!

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I must admit I don't know much, and I'm too lazy to research and verify this right now so take this with a hefty grain of salt, but:

At least one of the old north and/or west African (Egypt or Nubia, most likely) empires regularly kept cheetahs as high status pets and hunting companions. I say at least because Egypt, Nubia, and (I think) Ethiopia were all a big deal in the same time period (though I believe Egypt had a head start) and, y'know, cultural exchange is a thing. That's all I can really say with any confidence, sorry. I'm just a lazy amateur historian, if you couldn't tell from all my hedging.

HW: due Wednesday

More info about the Siberian Fox experiment here.

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