Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm. The great lie is that it is civilization. It’s not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That’s the great …
The shape of learning comes in all sizes, all forms. We know what not learning is — texting, emailing, You Tube videos, a world of Tele Tubbies, from birth to death. I know what education planners are not — hedge fund billionaires, charter school profiteers, down home religious bigotry and stupidity ignoramuses, the lady from …
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them… The ability to have somebody to tell your story is so important. It says: ‘I was here’. – Maya Angelou One of those splattering days — called to teach special education at one of the high schools in Lincoln City. Wonderful students, wonderful para-educators, wonderful …
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” “Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is …
I interviewed Australian Tim Flannery years ago. Here, 2019, and the carbon sequestering is still in the news. Carbon trading, carbon pricing? No way Jose. Given the symbiotic relationship between soils and the vegetation they sustain, soil carbon loss happens all sorts of ways, deforestation being a prime example. We’re already losing about 18.7 million …
the fight for bans on single-use plastic grocery bags is the plastic straw in the Pacific gyres It was a heck of a thing – a hundred people at the Newport City Council at 6 pm most of whom wanted to talk about the proposed single-use plastic bag (grocery) ban that is an ordinance largely …
Needle in a haystack. Little Dutch Boy putting fingers in leaking dike. The beach clean-up along the Central Oregon Coast, near Devils Punch Bowl, down south to Beverly Beach, is an exercise in patience, Sisyphus, maybe, as many beach and marine life lovers are volunteering with tweezers in hand harvesting the global micro-plastic blasts. Might …
I’ve been straddling the void, so to speak: I have had a disgust with this Imperial Society so long that down looks up, man. Slip streaming through the wastelands of America, first, as a kid wrestling in Tucson and having huge confrontations with fellow high school punks, racists against the Mexican-Americans on the other side …
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban “True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their …
It’s Capitalism that has fueled the Disasters of Global Warming, Pollution, Over-harvesting of Resources, Whacked-out Water Cycle, War (THE elephant in the room) Oh, Oregon is holding hearings on HB 2020, a baby step around putting feet to fire of those so-called polluters. I will list it below. I have been asked to attend a …
