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Raccoon Poem
A raccoon curled up in my tool shed to die And looks at me with a glacial eye, Heavy, slab of frozen fur I sling it to the woods beyond a spur, Of granite at the edge of my yard. Next I decide to clean up a pile of sawdust With which...
10poem: deer
Deer leave their forest security To emerge into the clearing Of an abandoned orchard Of neglected apple trees. They gather to enjoy the apples No longer collected by people. Perhaps also the clearing Is a holiday of vision where They can clearly see...
8poem forest tree
I steal the Forestâs pain Hoping for forgiveness, Revelation or perhaps fame. Black cherry trees cankered by fungus Grow eructed, burled masses on their trunks, High and low the trees slowly choke, Rot, die and fall. My chainsaw, feller of...
9Emily Dickinson: A Certain Slant of Light: Essay
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- Heavenly Hurt, it gives us-- We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are-- None may teach it--Any-- ...
9Apple Poem
Teacherâs Apple Around the old wooden cafeteria tables, Reassembled and sanded for seminar use, We sit together to sort through the world, Such as it is, with an old manâs broken wisdom And your vital beauty. We...
10Poem: Red Squirrel
I saw a red squirrel Eat a yellow mushroom. Daintily he nibbled around The edge, turning it around And around as he feasted....... Until he noticed me watching........ Irritably he scrambled to a higher branch, But I saw him again Nibbling...
26poem: turning sixty
 Turning Sixty   Itâs like riding the late train, Lights flashing on and off As the car clatters and sways, Waiting for the unimaginable last stop.   Itâs like just having suffered The guillotine and Some...
14poem sacrifice
On my walk to the river, I happen to look up from the path To a small rotten tree that had died prematurely; Lying on top of the stump, at eye level, Is a dead mangled mouse, clearly I see his pointed nose with opposed arrays of whiskers....
25Momones: a fruit memoir
Some fruits are worth climbing trees to enjoy. A fruit from my childhood that is not widely known in the United States but is considered a delicacy in the tropical regions of Colombia and Venezuela are called momones. Momones grow in clusters on...
5Book Review: A Freewheelin' Time: Suze Rotolo
Suze Rotolo's memoir of Greenwich Village in the early sixties, A Freewheelin' Time, is an involving story from the epicenter of a cultural revolution. The ostensible reason most people will read the book is because she was Bob Dylan's girlfriend at...
34Rev. Jim Jones and the People's Temple: A Memoir
The day I met the infamous Rev. Jim Jones, he was wearing semi-opaque sunglasses and a black shirt, and he was being trailed by a half dozen or so teen-aged young men. They piled out of a wine-colored van that was painted with the words People's...
3Book Review: Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine
Please read Naomi Klein's new book The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism. This book, that carefully chronicles the rise and influence of Milton Friedman's school of economic theory and its contemporary embodiment in Republican...
4Free Rice Improve Vocabulary Game
Help with world hunger and test your vocabulary! Build your word awareness! Amuse yourself! Challenge your students! Help feed the poor! How literate are you? Open the swiftly closing American mind. Just click the link highlighted below and play....
5Farmington River Brown Trout fishing
This brown trout was caught August 31st, 2007 at 4 pm in Halford's pool on the Farmington River, Connecticut on a number 18 curved, barbless hook emerger on a moderate retrieve. I typically fish with a 2 weight Sage rod and a number one Ross...
15The benefits & advantages of single sex schools
Here are few paragraphs on what Iâve learned about girlsâ schools after having taught in two for a total of eighteen years. The first was a Roman Catholic day school in the Midwest, and I am currently teaching in an east coast boarding/day...
18Fly-fishing
I have been fly-fishing now for several years, and because I am also an Ethics teacher by trade, I couldn’t help but put the two together and consider the ethics of fly-fishing. When considering an ethical question, it is often useful to drag...
16Magdalena River Fishing Memoir
One of my favorite memories as a child was fishing on a tributary of the Magdalena River in Colombia, South America. The Magdalena is the primary river that flows from the south of Colombia and the Amazon to the coast near Barranquilla. The stream...
10Rumi: poet
One of my favorite poets is Rumi, the great Sufi poet of the thirteenth century. He has become much better known in the West during the last twenty years through the translating efforts of Coleman Barks. Barks himself is a recognized poet in his own...
5BBC video: Friedrich Nietzsche
I had a professor who said Nietzsche was "among the angels." Many count him among the devils for his attack on Christianity. Nietzsche was faithful to the earth and to life. He detested those who would denigrate this world in favor of another or...
30misty of chincoteague
This is the real, actual stuffed Misty of Chincoteague and her daughter, following those are real live ponies on the island and finally are three shots of the island from the mainland, one on a sunny day and two on a rather forbidding day. No doubt...
5Philip Johnson: St Basil's Chapel, Houston
I can't think of a building that has recently impressed me more than Philip Johnson's St Basil's Chapel in Houston. Here are a few pictures I took when I visited. I wish now I had taken many more. This chapel is interesting from every angle and has...
28A Teacher's solutions for America's School Problems
Perhaps the following thoughts will provoke a conversation about schools in America. I went to public schools and a state university for my own schooling. I have taught in a university school of education, a public high school, a community college...
9Poem: Beaver
The Beaver and the Flyfisherman It's a standoff And the Beaver is Pissed off. The Flyfisherman sees a likely deep pool behind the lodge but The Beaver sees an Intruder. The war begins with a sudden loud splash behind the...
11Voted Best U Tube Music
This song is more worthwhile than anything I've seen on American Idol by a long shot. Here are three versions in order of production. I think I like the first two the best. I like this song because of its honesty, purity of feeling and depth caring....
44Poem: The Forest
The Forest The loggers leave a path: mud streaks, hewn branches, stumps, scarred trees, boulders askew- marks left as if a titan has been dragged screaming through the forest. The formerly peaceful walk through the worshiping trees is...
