Found this beautiful, rustic, and simple centerpiece idea on Design Sponge. Great idea with items you can pick up at the grocery store. Or at any of the corner markets in BKL. I actually have that oatmeal container, which I use as a flower vase.
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two flatlander cousins, sharing a love of design
It is very confirming to see this engagement with design as informing serious work in the teaching of English. "Aesthetics preceeds ethics" and the meanings we derive from the range of texts about us are always already dependent upon endlessly fine-tuned degrees of proportion and juxtaposition. So writing and reading with your students becomes an affair of meaning and value to the extent that searches for the beautiful continue to derive energy from proactive engagements with the ugly.
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