I am wiggin’ tired (I just made up that term, that’s how tired I am). So, my thoughts tonight are going to be in outline format:
1. I just bought George Steiner’s book “Tolstoy or Dostoevsky” on the recommendation of Warren Farha, owner of the awesomest bookstore in the world, Eighth Day Books, located [...]
Archive for July, 2007
The Glen, Day Three
Posted in Personal on 31 July 2007 | 2 Comments »
Day 10
Posted in Personal on 31 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Listening to “Don’t Speak” by No Doubt
It’s a night for surfing the web, eating brie with crackers, catching up on emails (both work and personal), flipping through the curriculum I’ll be teaching in a little over a month and playing cribbage at McClains.
10 days down, 18 to go ’til the ESL/worldview camp is over. [...]
The Glen, Day Two
Posted in Personal, Travel on 30 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
This morning I began my poetry workshop with Scott Cairns. It’s only taken one day for him to rock my world. We began by discussing “Why Poetry?” and then, “What is Poetry?” Poetry is not a documentation of thoughts or experiences, but a journey of discovery. It’s a “coming to know” of something. Coleridge said [...]
The Glen Conference, Day One
Posted in Personal, Travel on 29 July 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday was a long day. I had a shuttle picking me up from the airport at 2:30am for my 5:20 flight, so I decided to not bother with sleep. My friend, Daniel, and I made dinner, drove around Seattle, went jeans shopping, watched Casino Royale… Finally, when I got on the plane, I allowed myself [...]
Dear Cosmos,
Posted in Personal, Travel on 28 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on the verge of not caring– I didn’t know I could be this bad of a conference director. Okay, not really. I’m actually a good conference director, I just spent a couple hours NOT working last night– and am now desperately playing catch-up. Note to the Cosmos: This is a bad, bad [...]
“Well, here I am.”
Posted in Poetry on 26 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
I.
They didn’t tell me, in first
or second, or even fifth period–
where the universe ended.
They showed me the last planet,
Pluto (which was then erased
from all the fat textbooks with a giant
eraser held by a man with short
white hair and glasses).
They took away the end of my
book, the last page,
and left me stranded in space.
II.
The leaf falls, [...]
Listening to “Lua” by Bright Eyes
Posted in Personal on 26 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A long day at Magic Mountain has left me once again slightly disillusioned about ’southern California culture.’ But, perhaps the Hollywood Bowl tonight will offset this.
Rebecca
Caitlin’s Philosophy of Education
Posted in Philosophy and Theology on 25 July 2007 | 3 Comments »
For my interview with STAR tomorrow, I had to answer the following questions.
1. In the specific class you would like to teach, what concepts do you think students should know, what skills should they acquire, and what attitudes would you have them develop?
For World Literature with Art and American [...]
It has a name!
Posted in Travel on 24 July 2007 | 3 Comments »
Becky, do you remember this?! The magical church on the hilltop of Florence? It’s called “San Miniato al Monte”.
Posted in Personal, Poetry on 24 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is the middle.
Things have had time to get complicated,
messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore.
Cities have sprouted up along rivers
teeming with people at cross-purposes–
a million schemes, a million wild looks.
Disappointment unshoulders his knapsack
here and pitches his ragged tent.
This is the sticky part where the plot congeals,
where the action suddenly reverses
or swerves off in an outrageous [...]
