Intergenerational Writing
CU Students + Community Members
The InterGen Gallery - Fall 2017
Laura Deal
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"The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories."
--Mary Catherine Bateson
Peggy Wallis
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"Curiosity fuels creativity. Hum if you don't know the words."
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Noah Fish
"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are." Anais Nin
Mary Ann Paliani
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REMEMBER - TODAY is the FIRST DAY in the rest of your life! It's a time for FRESH STARTS and NEW BEGINNINGS!
Laurie Leinonen
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez via Buddha Dog
Visda Carson
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"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been!"
----- John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller poem
Zach Heygood
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“Don’t Act, Be” -April Henry
Cindy Cash
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust
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Julia Debell
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"Don't panic." - Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Doug Selzler
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"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wish bone, a back bone and a funny bone."
- Reba McEntire
Radha Pillai
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"Know yourSelf!"
Ihla Nation
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"You must be the change you seek in the world"
- Mahatma Gandhi'
Richard Mansbach
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Breathing in, I calm my body
Breathing out, I smile
Dwelling in the present moment,
I know this is a wonderful moment
Thich Nhat Hanh
Alexandra Doyle
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"Always be you and you'll never not be true"
-Unknown
Paula Himel
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"A life well lived is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."
(Original source unclear, but I like it)
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Jean Unger
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Stop worrying about what other people think of you. They're not thinking of you at all. They're too busy thinking about themselves and what other people think of them.
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Priscilla Courtney
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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Jordan Thomas
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"love others so radically they wonder why."
Debra Johnson
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I’m glad to be a part of this adventure called life.
Jeff Peacock
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"Myself, my own commander!
Take responsibility for your actions."
Sydney Hines
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"I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength" Proverbs 4:13
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Christina Reyes
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"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement." - Albert Camus
Harriet Barker
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"that is nonsense up with which i will not put." W. Churchill (allegedly)
Vicky Peterson
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Marina Florian
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"I may not have gone where I intended to, but I have always ended up where I needed to be.”
I took the liberty to slightly paraphrase a quote from Douglas Adams.
David Boxall
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"I'd like to know
what this whole show
is all about
before it's out"
This is from "Grooks" by Piet Hein
Lindsay Nikolaeff
Heidi Stimac
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"Grow anyway."
Berkeley McCarthy
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"When- if not now? Who- if not us?" -Anonymous from the Velvet Revolution
Julian Prieto​
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“Go out into the world and do well. But more importantly, go out into the world and do good” - Minor Myers Jr.
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Jake Esparza
Emma Hankinson
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"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light"
Renée Blevins
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"Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity." -St. John Paul II
Joseph Marnoni
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Tolerance for the intolerant is intolerable.
Andrea Fletcher
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“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde
Alexis Larocca
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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -Albus Dumbledore
Sarah Massey-Warren​
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“‘Never lose a holy curiosity,’ Einstein said; and so I lift my microscope down from the shelf, spread a drop of duck pond on a glass slide, and try to look spring in the eye.”
Annie Dillard
Luellen Ramey
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I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
-Maya Angelou
Jack Williamson​
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"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." Walt Disney
Frank Kogen​
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"Five years from now, we'll look back and say... That was five years ago"