“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
You Can Listen Here The division has been there since I was a child. I ached to walk by myself in woods and along streams, and spent hours outside wandering, but I loved the return home to dinner and the warmth of knowing I belonged somewhere. In college I attended parties and sat at bars, but I relished the long walks back to my apartment in the cold, all the turmoil disappearing with each block. […]
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You Can Listen Here Last week Gerald Conti wrote his resignation letter . After almost 40 years, he will no longer teach (except as a substitute). He will no longer serve. He insists that “I am not leaving my profession, in truth, it has left me. It no longer exists.” His reasons for leaving: “data driven education” that contributes to “testing and evaluation systems that are Byzantine at best and at worst, draconian.” Yes. True — in the […]
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You Can Listen Here When William Stafford came upon this stanza in William Blake’s poem “Jerusalem”, his method of writing gained a process: I give you the end of a golden string,/ Only wind it into a ball,/ It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate/ Built in Jerusalem’s wall.” Stafford believed that “every thread” would lead writers, readers and the contemplative to an insight, often a profound one; an epiphany waited at the end […]
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You Can Listen Here Every early Thursday morning I’m on the road heading southwest. The light is a pleasure. Being up this early is another — I always feel as if I’ve stolen extra time for my life from a secret locked room. Since I’m driving country roads, I’m often the only car so I drive a little slower and look around. The crows are always out; the first birds to rise, and last […]
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