Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
husband air choices
She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia..." She gulped for air. "...take thee Alexander..." She gulped again. "...to be my awful wedded husband...
function understood toms
[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.
brain world body
If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.
dallas conversation manure
Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?
laughter mad naked
We just lost our electricity. You want to tell me what’s so funny about that?” “It’s not exactly funny. It’s more of a good news/bad news situation.” “In that case, hit me with the good news first.” “They’re both sort of rolled up into one.” “Stop stalling.” “All right. Now don’t get mad, but . . .” Smothered laughter drifted toward him. “Cal . . . I’m naked.
oil oil-and-water water
I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)
sugar looks movement
Sugar Beth detected the movement and shot him a look that challenged not only his manhood but also his very right to exist on the planet.
few jobs lots supporting teaching volunteers
There are so few of us so lots of jobs that are supporting the teaching are done by parents. We have lots of volunteers and they come in and support the school.
blending everyday forward giving plain reality relate students textbook theory whatever
There are students who really look forward to being able to see the blending of reality and theory ... meaning, making whatever you read in the textbook plain by giving everyday illustrations that you can relate to.
effort experience gave good meets ran toughest
This was one of the toughest meets in the Midwest, so it was an eye-opening experience for our freshmen. I thought everyone gave a very good effort and ran really well.
blind-spots limits recognition
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
lovers wonder analysts
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
children long people
People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.
children mad feelings
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting - but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. It is as if to say: if these are not valued - if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing - are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.