We ask students to consider not only who and what, but when, why, and how.
We ask them to consider all of these:
in their consideration
we become truer.
Tag: Kerouac quotations
I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its big rank smell that smells like the raw body of America itself – Kerouac
He threw the maps up on the dash; when we saw the Mississippi he knew I knew my way home.
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| LaCrosse, WI |
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. – Kerouac
It’s from On the Road, which I should read again. The ones who never yawn. So sick at heart. Tired, tired. Tired.
Knew he was on the train but couldn’t see him anymore. Bumped into a couple people on the way back to the car I was so out of it.
Rosemary calls me “babysitter.” It’s our first day together tomorrow and I have a feeling I am going to need all of my energy to be a good one.
My trip is over but maybe a new one is beginning inside of me, we can always hope.
I just like that quotation a lot, all of these stars in me again falling.
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| Rm in her new boots. |
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