O Reader. I doubt that any of you come here anymore, but just in the least little chance of a case that you do, I think some explanation is in order. School is out, which means days and days of wide open space for me, time like I never know it during the school year. […]
Read moreI think I’m a morning person. This seem to be increasingly the case, anyway, as the needs of my day demand it. Yet the thoughts that come in the morning are of the hazy kind, the less true kind. They come quickly enough–too quickly– like so much water poured from a bucket. I like thoughts […]
Read moreThe desks are empty now. Three thoughtful students dutifully stacked their chairs up on their desks, but otherwise, the room is looking decidedly askew: chairs at cross-angles, desks counter-posed. From where I sit, I can see one pencil abandoned under the long table at the back of the room, and a copy of Lord of […]
Read moreMay is here and, indeed, is already more than half gone. May in North Carolina means green everything, trees in full leaf, and the roses along my fence blooming in abundant frenzy. And it also means– again, in North Carolina– heat. Generally speaking, this time of year means the warmest of my dress-clothes for work. […]
Read moreIt’s only Wednesday. I’m not all that tired. Not Yet. Maybe verbal blunders aren’t signs of fatigue. Maybe they’re just verbal blunders, or signs of old age. But when I talked with my Alaskan sister this afternoon, and when we ended our conversation, and when I expressed my love to her family, this is what […]
Read moreBill competed in another triathlon this weekend. .5 mile swim, 14 mile bike, and a 5K to finish it off. It’s called a “sprint,” and I guess it is: the race takes about an hour and a half, and it’s amazing, when it’s over, to think of all he just did. The event was […]
Read morei am, again today, this (closed) and would have you knowthat i am (or would be) sealedupagainsteverything but for hope in(and recollection of) Those Hands: (may i publish it here? again?) (–rebecca) somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyondany experience,your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or which i cannot […]
Read more“All ambition has the reek of disease about it, the relentless smell of the self….So long as your ambition is to stamp your existence upon existence, your nature on nature, then your ambition is corrupt and you are pursuing a ghost. “Still, there is something that any artist is in pursuit of, and is answerable […]
Read moreI did my student teaching under the careful oversight of one of the most talented teachers I have ever known. She also had an enormous variety of coats. But it was her talent and energy that stood out the most. She was enormously energetic. Enormously. I liked student teaching well enough, but most of the […]
Read more(Wednesday) This day was no more difficult than any other day. Nor was it easier. It was fine. And full. And, as ever, productive. Some days are heavier than others, yes? I would say it’s atmospheric, but the humidity hasn’t kicked in yet, and the skies today were mostly clear. Maybe it’s atmospheric in another […]
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