“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene
Now I’m excited and smiling ear to ear remembering how good you are at finding exceptions to lots of spelling rules . Not to mention your writing, poetry and beautiful singing voice.
You would be in year 8 by now, and I bet you are blitzing it.
4S 2009 was such a remarkable year for me and I think of you all often.
With a smile
KylieAnn Scott
About the 'I before e' rule post Receive Receipt Feisty Heir
Asked by Anonymous
There are EXCEPTIONS to every rule!
It may interest you to know that I used to be a student of yours. Thought you ought to know...
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Hi there,
I am always happy to hear from students I have taught. I can’t get excited when you don’t tell me who you are!
Name please?
The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is called Here,
and you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes.
Listen.
It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, you are surely lost. Stand still.
The forest knows where you are.
You must let it find you.
— David Wagner, ”Lost”
Today as I was hiking through the Australian bush, David Whyte’s teachings on Wagner and Dante became increasingly amplified with each echoing “Cooee”.
Thank you David Whyte for the reflection points I thought about as I took each clambering step today.
Thank you for reminding me of where “Here!” is, and for helping me to be PRESENT with each step I took.
“A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo. The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb ‘to be,’ but the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction, ‘and…and…and…” This conjunction carries enough force to shake and uproot the verb ‘to be.’ Where are you going? Where are you heading for? These are totally useless questions. Making a clean slate, starting or beginning again from ground zero, seeking a beginning or a foundation—all imply a false conception of voyage and movement (a conception that is methodical, pedagogical, initiatory, symbolic…). But Kleinz, Lenz, and Büchner have another way of traveling and moving: proceeding from the middle, through the middle, coming and going rather than starting and finishing.”
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
If only more Mighty Girls were told this throughout highschool, instead of always being fed the dribble that bleeds out of Taylor Swift’s mouth, or the Blood Sucking Twilight trilogies.
Anonymous
