He was probably a university student, or a post-doc, or maybe already a professor.
He was probably married and probably had a new child at home,
(and might have even had an idea of what university he hoped his child would attend).
He was probably an only child, or if he had siblings, was probably somehow isolated from his siblings–
continue reading Portrait of a Scientist (early 20th century)
Certain teachers teach to those who learn easily:
Let’s applaud such teachers.
Uncertain teachers learn from those with difficulty in learning, and teach accordingly.
Let’s applaud such teachers doubly, and pay them accordingly.
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all the little things you do are done for love.
don’t doubt it. shout about it.
shout about the things you do for love.
(it’s about the little things)
i’ve always wanted a friend
who would send
poems to my inbox
and lately i’ve been
My hut has a dirt floor, basically,
(as I stopped running
the vacuum
at some point in recent time).
What we should be asking of our administrators and educators as our children return to school:
there are lots of things to recognize in the busy world, and as we age, it’s natural that we’ll recognize more things. It’s just the way of things. Not everyone remembers this.
But if you grew up with grandparents, who nurtured you the way grandparents do, by making space for you to just be who you are, by being less busy, because they recognize themselves in you, you’ll recognize that if your children don’t grow up with grandparents, maybe it’s a good idea to nurture them a little more like grandparents do, by making space for them to be just who they are, and a little less like parents do, busy making sure that every detail’s taken care of, and managing their schedules, schedules that manage to reign in all their impulses, their beautiful human impulses to respond to their world in strange and beautiful ways.
Grandparents recognize strange and beautiful things and ways, simply because they’ve had time to recognize things and ways, and recognize themselves in things and ways, and make space for them. They’ve resolved something that allows them to see beauty in the strangest ways and strangeness in the most beautiful things.
They recognize themselves in you (remember, they were parents too).
on viewing the full moon, i see three moons.
should i attune myself so that I see a single moon, and continue seeing one moon?
or is my gift to see three moons, and continue seeing a multiplicity of moons?
or is my gift the gift of inner blindness, that doesn’t see a thing, but instead describes it?
