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Cutting edge? I'm on the backside of the blade....


03 April 13 09:27 AM
I take a perverse delight in my Luddite Lite view, but it's really as simple this. Anything that distances me from the natural world, from my connection to the stuff that comes in (and leaves) my body, from the delicious sensuous (even sensual) symphony Read More...
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Slaughtering science in the classroom


04 April 12 09:17 AM
It's planting time--as has been for the past few weeks. I poke a small hole in the earth, drop in a seed, push dirt over the hole, then go on to the next. It is an act of faith that each seed will erupt into a growing organism, thrusting it roots deep Read More...
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Bats!


13 August 11 08:38 AM
Last night was Perseids night --we had our lawn chairs out, the full moon's light blocked by the garage at our backs. The mosquitoes, our state bird, were scarce enough that we had not slathered on whatever state-of-the-art organic compounds we use to Read More...
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Natural world


10 August 11 09:52 AM
If you know a bit About the universe It's because you've taken it in Like that, Looked as hard As you look into yourself, Into the rat hole, Through the vetch and dock That mantled it. Because you've laid your cheek Against the rush clump And known soft Read More...
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Letting go


06 July 11 08:15 PM
I'm letting go this year. I'm going to trust the collection of young humans sitting in my class, brains honed by countless generations before them, each and every child with a lineage going back as far as the first protobionts that globbed together in Read More...
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