Realistically, I hope to update this page more often (pictures are at the end today instead of interspersed), but sometimes (as the admin at my master’s program says) “life gets in the way” ~ However, this month, I have taken some time away from the education studies to work on my next book, help friends, study some more about other subjects, and spend time scanning and organizing bits of a genealogy project that I’ve been working on back and forth…
Recently, I’ve been within situations that have been difficult to maneuver individually, so I’ve looked outward for insights from my community. A smattering of good ideas were shared with me and I’d like to share thirty-five or forty of them here, so they can be appreciated as a group of focused thoughts by both you and me from time on from now. They are slightly abridged in a sense that I have abbreviated people’s names, adjusted the format from the…
I’m saddened to hear about the 5.9 scaled earthquake that has struck the Gansu state of China in the last 24 hours. It is an area that I have a great appreciation for, having visited twice. I don’t often travel such great distances multiple times, but after my first visit to Gansu, I had to go back for more…more mountains, history, massive carvings in cliffs, temples, monasteries, noodle shops (their capital, Lanzhou, is known throughout China by name, the way…
Image of Horace Mann, by Southworth & Hawes – ImageZeno.org, ID number 20001902687, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100101279 Written in August, 2023 for a course named: D-166, Foundations of Education, the following is a discussion of an individual who is known to Seattle residents and more, by name, but perhaps, not by actions. My goal was to share his story in brief. Below is that accounting. An historical influence that is apparent in each of the classrooms would be the influence of…
Seemingly months have passed since I’ve written in this blog, but not for lack of momentum, more for lack of digital participation. Time spent to reflect has been brilliantly analogue lately. Carrying around a leather-bound notebook while traveling a piece of the planet I’ve never been has been a pleasure that I am happy to share a shard of today. The notebook still needs to be typed at another time, but this reflection that I can share is based on…
Now I’m writing the introduction to what it was like to leave the nation I’d lived for about seven and a half years during the Covid epidemic’s breakout. China was where it began. That’s not in question. Nor is it an issue to me beyond the fact that I was a resident of China at that time, so I was near some of the early real social earthquakes as they happened, and some of what I’m writing in this book…
Recently, my University asked for recommendations regarding books that would be valuable for a publication they are putting together in relation to Black History Month. Below are my submissions. Upper Hand, The Future of Work for the Rest of Us, by Sherrell Dorsey, speaks directly to Black people in the scope of participating in the broader, American business world. ~Once the relatively safer space of school is over and the gloves are off, so to speak, in the competitive world…
This is a second addition to the collection of “Written for the Workshop” with the prompt to rewrite a song. The first song I heard after the prompt was Friend of the Devil by the Grateful Dead and I knew it would be the one to work with. The result is below. I hope you enjoy it. Friend of Santos I lit out from DC, I was trailed by nine interns.Didn’t get to sleep last night, and my eyes man,…
This poem is the result of a poetry workshop assignment from the course I’m signed up for with Buddy Wakefield. Our meetings are each Sunday, and this week, our task was to write a warning label. It has not been reviewed by the community yet. Feel free to leave your feedback below. Be well there~ Warning! I’m a sharp-tongued artist with a penchant for kale Willing to build art, direct, at you. From books to sculptures to lesson-plans yo, I’m…
Creating my next book has me considering a Frame Narrative style for the fifteen/sixteen chapters in six or so main sections that I’ll be putting together a bit like the last book with the pictures of China. And, so what that made me think about is the Voice. The voice of the book needs to have particular ears perked for it, in my mind anyway. You’ll notice that I mentioned many who helped with that in the last one. While…