already. raccoon visit last night. picked off a chicken a few weeks back. back for dog food. things going on:
- old student competing in nationals, x country, in a few hours. third time. div II. any possibility that he wins the whole thing?
- reading poetry these days. found somebody new i like. can't recall his name. good, tho
- nine days off now with the kids, with winter still thinking about settling in. maybe? 70s this week, just past middle of november. the fact that the public discourse isn't at all times directed towards and around the reality of climate change is... well... kinda insane.
- holiday bar last night with my friend luis, talkin bout life and wives and stuff like that; decent band, reggae-influenced white guys that could play their instrument. middle-aged crowd mostly-- i didn't see too much that caught my attention. tvs on-- basketball. wondering how these boys' games continue to hold everyone's attention. course if it was soccer i might have felt differently.
- back in touch with some good friends from way back-- high school and college. ben living with his fam teaching fifth grade in taiwan, shep and tim in charlotte, chikki, plugging away on human rights issues, colin raising his fam a few miles from vassar and fighting off the deer ticks
- loving on my five-year-old, just awake now, with the crack of dawn. she's into writing, doing math (basic adding and subtracting), tae kwon do workouts, hassling the cats, stuff like that
- what's for breakfast today? frenchie or something else? dang good yesterday. we eat good food round here.
- eating good salads-- fresh greens and feta and pine nuts. all about the nuts: pine, almond, walnut
- another DPL book sale-- gonna head back down today. get me a bag of books and help box things up. the gretch down and out with strep, loss, and overwork. but better today i think
- teaching creative writing, chess, "brain games", girls volleyball
- wondering bout what to teach next, as an electives teacher
supervisor says whatever you're passionate about... the challenge-- one of many-- is if your "passion" is met with tired eyes, apathy, disinterest, stoned students, students who mainly are just after the credit, students distracted by cellphones...
theater, percussion, Sand Creek Massacre, outdoor trips-- all potentially on deck. just not sure how to roll them out.
graphic novel class blocks one and two moderately successful. Personal narratives/ Sun "Readers Write" also to some extent. How to move ahead with this idea/ideal of transformative education-- education for teens or inmates that will perhaps cause them to shift. but isn't that the purpose of all education, in a way-- to guide/ direct how we develop and transform?
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