What is a Quafaie?


Quafaie (pronounced: kwa FAY) are fantasy creatures that exist in the fantasy writing of Hugh Kemeny, and are created by him. They are primarily in Hugh Kemeny’s Black Phoenix short stories...

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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Queer

I AM QUEER!

I had a great post in my previous blog about labelization, and how I generally try not to subscribe to that, but today I have to mention about labeling myself as queer... well I don't have to, but seeing as I've had a couple ciders after not sleeping for about 38-40 hours, I might as well add a second post.

So tonight while I was out with beers with classmates, I felt a little uncomfortable saying my sexuality. I shouldn't be, but I guess living in the most conservative province in Canada, I'm a little cautious of what I say, yet on the other side my classmates should be accepting of my sexuality considering we're all going into the public sector, where homophobia is not accepted.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Quote of the day

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.
- Charles Schulz
(Teachers page-a-day calendar - Monday 26 January 2009)

Tiny children want to learn to the degree that they are unable to distinguish learning from fun. They keep this attitude until we adults convince them that learning is not fun.
- Glenn Doman, How to Teach Your Baby to Read: The Gentle Revolution
(Teachers page-a-day calendar - Tuesday 27 January 2009)

Come to the edge, he said. They said:
We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said.
They came. He pushed them,
And they flew.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Teachers page-a-day calendar - Wednesday 28 January 2009)

Wanted: One teacher. Must be able to listen, even when mad. Must have a sense of humor; must not make students feel bad about themselves; must be fair and not treat some students better than others; must know how to make schoolwork interesting; must keep some students from picking on others; must let students take a break sometimes; must not jump to conclusions; must let students know them; must get to know students; must encourage students when they have a hard time; must tell students if they do a good job or try really hard; must not scream; must not call home unless it's really important; must smile; must help students with their problems if they ask; must not talk about students to other people; must be patient; must really know what they are teaching; if it's a lady, it would be good if she is pretty.
- Job description created by eighth- and ninth-grade students, recalled by Lisa Delpit in Fires in the Bathroom by Kathleen Cushman.
(Teachers page-a-day calendar - Thursday 29 January 2009)

I do not teach children, I give them joy.
- Isadore Duncan
(Teachers page-a-day calendar - Friday 30 January 2009)

As a substitute, it is often difficult to be fully prepared for lessons that are to be taught. After teaching a lesson on estimating by rounding, one student raised his hand with a serious and confused look on his face. He asked, "Isn't this just a way of lying?"
- Michelle K. Diefenderfer on www.teachernet.com
(Teachers page-a-day calendar - Sat/Sun 31/1 Jan/Feb 2009)

At the end of the show, he'll leave the stage, and the sirens will be going, and the limousines waiting, and Charlie will walk back to his drum kit and change the position of his drumsticks by two millimeters. Then he'll look at it. Then if it looks good, he'll leave. . . The drums are about to be stripped down and put in the back of a truck, and he cannot leave if he's got it in his mind that he's left his sticks in a displeasing way.
- Keith Richards, on Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts.
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Thursday 18 December 2008)

I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness - I look not for it if it be not in the present hour - nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights - or if a Sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.
- John Keats
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Friday 19 December 2008)

A wanderer: let that be my name -
    the first winter rain.
- Bashō
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Saturday 20 December 2008)

Amonk asked Hsiang-nien: "What is the eye that does not deceive others?"
The master responded: "Look, look, winter is approaching."
- Zen mondo
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Sunday 21 December 2008)

Hastthou named all the birds without a gun? Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk?
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Sunday 21 December 2008)

As a man is, so he sees.
- William Blake
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Tuesday 23 December 2008)

To be a proper abode for God and fit for God to act in, a man should be free from all things and actions, both inwardly and outwardly.
- Meister Eckhart
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Wednesday 24 December 2008)

At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow May's new-fangled mirth.
- Shakespeare
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Thursday 25 December 2008)

Enlightenment is for sissies. Living ethically and morally is what really matters.
- Brad Warner
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Friday 26 December 2008)

The starting point for consciousness may be the universe, which many physicists believe is made of information. The things we see as matter and energy are really information being transformed from one state to another.
- Ronald Kotulak
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Saturday 27 December 2008)

Attention is rewarded by knowledge of reality.
- Iris Murdoch
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Sunday 28 December 2008)

Here and now, boys!
- Aldous Huxley
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Monday 29 December 2008)

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Gustav Jung
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Tuesday 30 December 2008)

To what shall I compare this life of ours?
Evan before I can say it is like a lightning flash or a dewdrop, it is no more.
- Sengai
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Wednesday 31 December 2008)