April 2013
5 posts
March 2013
19 posts
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February 2013
6 posts
January 2013
5 posts
This is My Heart
This is my heart. It is a good heart. Bones and a membrane of mist and fire are the woven cover. When we make love in the flower world my heart is close enough to sing to yours in a language that has no use for clumsy human words.
My head is a good head, but it is a hard head and it whirs inside with a swarm of worries. What is the source of this singing, it asks and...
December 2012
3 posts
November 2012
7 posts
My class today
Me: So when you see the 4 year old boy pull the little girl's hair...
Students: He likes her!
Me: Now they are around 11 or 12 and he grabs her arm and wrestles her to the ground even though she calls him a jerk and yells at him to leave her alone.
Students: That is just how boys are.
Me: Now they are 18 and he grabs her arm and--
Students: Oh, that's not okay.
Me: Really? How would he know? How would she know? How would you know? You just told me that for the first 17 years of these children's lives that you thought it was cute, sweet, and natural for a boy to grab a girl and be rough with her.
Students: Oh.
Me: Oh, is right.
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
– Mary Oliver (via modernhepburn)
October 2012
10 posts
“To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.”
