Breaking Glass
I am taking a mosaics class. I don't know if I consciously chose this class because I am in the process of falling apart, or, if as unconsciouses are want to do, mine selected it for me from a random…
I am taking a mosaics class. I don't know if I consciously chose this class because I am in the process of falling apart, or, if as unconsciouses are want to do, mine selected it for me from a random…
Our faces blur as we whirl past each other, like beams of light in caves of darkness - Moving too quickly for an eye to take shape, a mouth to form words, or a kiss.Sometimes a sweet scent of another…
“I just want to be heard!” my students would yell, when the discussions in class got hot and contentious. Their voices would get louder, the tension in the room would mount. “I want to be heard too!” “Me too!” “And…
In a wonderful talk posted on Ted.com, the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses the “danger of a single story.” “Show a people as one thing over and over again, and that is what they become,” she says, talking about…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5YxAcsQgu0 In the Jewish calendar, it is the year 5774. This is a fact but I no longer remember (if I ever did know) when the counting started nor the significance of year one, though I know the months…