• newspapers
• projector w screen & nice speakers (no TV!) (also, the projector for developed film from photographs)
• composting
• plants growing on windowsills
• lots of bookshelves w books
• big leafy plant on window in shower
• oranges for squeezing orange juice
• vases with flowers!
• analog clocks
• disposable cameras in each room (for those moments)
• peg board
• hanging pots & pans overhead
• terrarium
• step stool
• nice, loud radio
• trays and serving dishes (including platters!) (a decanter!)
• lunch boxes

• sesame candies
• sunglasses + sunscreen
• bottle of water
• squishy, the pillow

• responsibility
• accountability
• not saying "like" 30 bajillion times
• chewing with your mouth closed
• dedication
• determination
• understanding (especially when a situation seems unpardonable but you really can't help it)
• good listening
• not on their phones all the time
• insterested in being in touch with the world
• good vocabulary
• interesting & interested
• committed to what they take on
• not afraid to stick up for their beliefs
• going against the grain because they see a problem with convention, not because it's cool

• photoboothin'
• make a pie
• long bike ride
• art institute
• prints of photos
• more film for film camera
• photos with film camera
• read outside at night
• use candles
• visit a garden somewhere downtown
• visit the japanese gardens
• work on lightbulb & gruesome crucifix collections
• visit an antique shop
• bucktown yo
• check out books on wicca
• make list of things thankful for
• clothing needs (actually though)
• cds

• Self-Portrait, 1887
• Self-Portrait with a Grey Felt Hat, 1886-87
• Portrait of Alexander Reid, 1887
• Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin, 1888
• The Zouave (Bust), 1888
• Portrait of Postman Roulin, 1888
• L'Arlésienne (Madame Ginoux), 1888
• Portrait of Trabuc, 18889
• The Peasant (Gardener), 1889
• Adeline Ravoux, 1890
• The Little Arlésienne, 1888
• Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat, 1890
• Van Gogh's Chair, 1888

and last of all...

• Self-Portrait, 1889

• shower with rounded glass door
• door knobs low on doors (and tall doors)
• wide wooden door

• watch films
• watch daria
• watch freaks and geeks
• read a book
• read more Dostoyevsky
• run outside
• go to a garden

• swimming lessons - rohinton mistry
• scott, shackleton and amundsen: ambition and tragedy in the antarctic - david thomson
• slaughterhouse-five - kurt vonnegut

• cave of forgotten dreams
• life in a day
• no end in sight
• ✔ breathless
• louder than a bomb
• 1000 journals
• so much, so fast
• 12 angry men
• ✔ the wizard of oz
• the jazz singer
• inherit the wind
• rear window
• casablanca
• prozac nation
• the children of chabannes
• paper clips
• the lottery
• an education
• the cove
• ✔ the red balloon
• babies

• eva
• sage
• imogen
• serephine
• esther
• sousie
• amelie
• anya
• lael
• adelaide
• marguerite
• penelope
• agatha
• liesl
• royal
• marta
• amaryllis
• georgina
• louisa
• ava
• marie

by Lucille Clifton

• At Last We Killed the Roaches
• cigarettes
• night vision
• sam
• my lost father
• daughters

by Malcolm London

• High School Training Ground

by Marcus Wicker

• To A White Friend Who Wonders Why I Don't Spend More Time Pontificating the N Word
• Self-Dialogue Staring at a Mirror
• The CEO of Happiness Speaks
• When faced with the statement "there are more black men in jail than college," I think Order of Operations

by Patricia Smith

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