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Joy
Note: The point of this post is Joy’s video at the bottom. The rest is secondary. Reading Dean‘s tweet felt oddly like posthumous eavesdropping on what the living say after we’ve passed. (It’s a...
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Pointlessness
Just before Thanksgiving, I wrote about Joy. Now let’s turn to its opposite. Teaching Subjects You Love may not bring financial wealth, but it brings other riches. Those poor unengaged souls who choose...
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American Novelists Too?
I got a couple of critical responses to my use of Louis CK as an example of Americans having limited knowledge of the world and its history. In retrospect, I should have anticipated the “he’s a...
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In Which the Teacher is Sacrificial Poet at His First Poetry Slam
In which this teacher sacrifices himself as “Sacrificial Poet” to warm up and launch the First Annual IASAS Forensics and Debate Poetry Slam. SAS, March 2012. (The “Sacrificial Poet,” I was told, is...
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On Honor, True and False
2013 National Honor Society Induction Speech Singapore American School 21 March 2013 Thank you and welcome, 54 inductees, current members of NHS, parents, faculty, family, friends. It’s an honor to...
View ArticleVacations: A Diagnosis
“Vacation” is a suspicious word. To “empty” oneself from one’s life when one is not “working.” What does this say about the value of our life’s work? And this desire to “vacate” ourselves from our...
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A thought that keeps returning to me lately: “From Confucianism to Daoism to Buddhism to Martial Arts and Taijiquan to Acupuncture and Massage and Traditional Chinese Medicine: the Chinese have always...
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