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Barbara Johnson

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Reading Reality Teaching
Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Laughter Pain Stress
The most important things in your home are people.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Home Important People
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Anniversary Love Valentine's Day
If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that’s kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it’s Loving Kindness.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Giving Kindness Peanut Butter
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Attitude Color Mind
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Growing Inspirational Jobs
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Lasts Speed Today
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Inspirational Life Love
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Faith Prayer Rain
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Kids Necks Pain
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Bored Dull Life Too Short
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hurt Looks Sides
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Behind Heaven Live Touch
Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn’t anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Day Looks Missing One
Violets are God’s apology for February.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Apology February Violet

Change is a process not an event.

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