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26081. judithathome - 7/21/2010 11:32:19 PM Well, today I am probably putting vile stuff into the universe and hoping it doesn't come back to me.
I'm in the foulest mood...something relatively foreign to me. 26082. thoughtful - 7/22/2010 2:17:37 PM why so? 26083. judithathome - 7/22/2010 5:02:33 PM I don't know...could be because Keoni's truck is in the shop and I'm trapped at home.
It's different than being here by choice. ;-) 26084. arkymalarky - 7/22/2010 5:25:37 PM Sorry Judith! Hope today's better.
We're leaving for FL Tues. Trying to get everything done in time. 26085. thoughtful - 7/23/2010 3:28:41 PM Opinions please...they are giving me an after work farewell party next week for my retirement.
Is it too weird if I read "the love song of j alfred prufrock"?
I mean there's so much in their that speaks to me and where I am in my life....counting out my life in coffee spoons....the footman holding my coat and snickering...wearing the bottoms of my trousers rolled...
wouldn't ts eliot say it much better than i ever could?
or is that just too weird.... 26086. arkymalarky - 7/23/2010 5:32:44 PM I don't think it's weird. I think about that poem lately as well, and instead of coffee spoons it little bits of paper, especially regarding rural education activisim, that I thought were so imprtant at the time which I sifted through and mostly threw away last summer.
However...it's very long, so could you possibly incorporate the most relevant lines to you throughout your speech where they fit?
And I know they must be sad as your friends and sad to lose such a competent person. I've told students things you've said here to help them understand complex economic issues and events that are important to them and to understanding the way history plays out. 26087. arkymalarky - 7/23/2010 5:35:44 PM And I always credit y'all and this forum, btw. People talk all the time about what makes good/better teachers, and the mote/fray helped me improve more than any other single thing I've done, in innumerable ways. 26088. judithathome - 7/24/2010 9:04:47 PM "the love song of j alfred prufrock"?
I think this poem speaks to everyone...go for it!
26089. thoughtful - 7/25/2010 9:05:02 PM Ok...I'll see how the room/atmosphere is and then decide last minute...but it's a most fabulous poem....especially to read.
Arky,thanks for the kind words. My sec'y wrote me a lovely note on my retirement and in it she said how much she's learned from our conversations...it so touched me, as have your words, knowing that in some small way, I've made a difference.
For that I am glad.
The mote has made a difference for me as well, esp the old mote where the level of argument was such that it forced me to think through and hone my own ideas or re evaluate those that needed tossing. It was really valuable on so many levels.
And even as a shadow of its former self, it's still worthwhile. 26090. arkymalarky - 7/25/2010 9:22:55 PM I think you hit exactly what the mote was and is. The flames and personal stuff are a dim fog to me for the most part, but the debates and substantive interactions stick with me more than I would have imagined and I still reference them, directly or indirectly, all the tme. People who are gone, like Maria, Cigarlaw, and Verdeazul, contributed to how I teach poetry. You and PE and Wombat and others impacted my histoy teaching. Others helped my computer skills and came to my aid with my rural activism, and several have been just great rl lifetime, dear friends.
And Seamus, if you ever lurk lately, I still tell my students about my Irish online poet friend who pointed out that the stanzas in "The Red Wheelbarrow" are shaped like wheelbarrows! 26091. Ms. No - 7/25/2010 11:46:07 PM well shit.
I never noticed that and I just TAUGHT the freakin' thing last semester.
I made everyone draw pictures of chickens.
Oh! And was it here that mention was made of the possibility of a much darker reading of This is Just to Say? I had two students who saw the sinister potential in that poem and I meant to bring it up here. 26092. arkymalarky - 7/26/2010 12:34:12 AM I don't know. I've discussed that wrt "My Papa's Waltz" several places, and I think here as well. 26093. arkymalarky - 7/27/2010 9:14:22 PM On the way to FL. Judith, I was looking at Mose's stars on the ceiling and decided she and SIL should just come back and live with us. She wasn't too keen on the idea. 26094. Ms. No - 7/27/2010 10:15:04 PM Excellent news!!! I'm back at my school for sure!!!
Hooray! 26095. arkymalarky - 7/27/2010 11:43:57 PM Yayayayayay Nooooooooo! 26096. arkymalarky - 7/30/2010 1:58:09 AM Well, tomorrow's the big day for Mose. I'm sitting on our hotel balcony waiting forn bob to get ready so we can walk down the beach to her apt to visit everyone. 26097. wabbit - 7/30/2010 9:17:45 PM catching up...
Arky, can't wait to hear the details - congrats to Mose!
Ms. No, what great news!
T'ful, I think whatever you decide to do will be just right.
iiibbb, your baby is adorable! 26098. arkymalarky - 7/31/2010 7:10:59 AM It was really wonderful! I'll postr pics sometime soon--I hope! 26099. arkymalarky - 8/2/2010 4:54:16 AM Spent all summer spinning my wheels. Seemed like I was busy the whole time and accomplished next to nothing. Now we're ending a full day at Gulf Shores, just for Bob and me, and it's been great. Beautiful beach, no tarballs, so Bro will be disappointed at not getting one. What we noticed was the dearth of birds, sea life in general. We saw some rays and at dusk a lot of jumping fish, but no jellyfish and little of anything else. Kinda creepy, really, especially as compared to Cocoa Beach, where we saw dozens of pelicans. 26100. arkymalarky - 8/2/2010 4:56:49 AM Cocoa Beach seemed to have a lot of sea life in general. Mose had a great time there. Thought i'd get pics up, but didn't do much but rest.
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