Every Good Morning

Public Education (2 of 4): Speed, Insularity and Misunderstanding: Post 70

For audio version click here Perhaps modernity itself may be more responsible than any other factor for the gaps of understanding that exist between public schools and their larger communities. The speed of daily life has increased, and this especially affects how locked in we are to our workplaces and routines by cellphones and email. With globalization and the creation of a “bits” as opposed to “atoms” economy, the pressure to become more productive has […]

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Public Education (1 of 4): $$ and Sense: Post 69

For audio version click here A revealing moment occurs a third of the way through the great movie, The Right Stuff, the story of the first American astronauts of the Mercury program. A Washington insider sent out west to recruit hotshot test pilots to fly into space tells this truth about the necessity of funding: “No bucks, no Buck Rogers.” If there is no money, dreams don’t fly. This sentence applies to all public institutions. Public […]

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An Early Winter Morning: Post 68

For audio version click here I know a woman, an Army lifer, who reinvented herself after her return from her last deployment in Iraq; she retired, earned two Master’s degrees and found her second dream job as a federal Park Ranger. Stationed this winter for the first time in the back country of Yellowstone, she could not wait to be snowed in for the season. She envisioned herself and her Great Pyrenees, Molly, out and […]

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New York: Dance at the Joyce: Botanica: Post 67

For audio version click here Can you caper? Can you bop? How many shimmies and shakes does your body have? Stand up. Begin with your neck, the first synovial joint, one that moves in more than one direction. Rotate it. Nod up and down. Nod east to west and west to east. Bounce it, heavy metal style. Tilt it. Shake it up and down while moving it from side to side. Those moves alone add […]

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