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Day of Tweets | Year of Treats
[submitted to Humanist, May 1, 2020] Willard, At your prompting and with the kind enticements of Elli Mylonas appearing at suitable intervals on Humanist, I have dipped a toe into the Twitter waters. Things I learnt: Twitter functions like an … Continue reading
Captioning Affirmative
Any one who has watched a video resource with closed captioning (whether or not we are permanently deaf) owes a debt of gratitude to those who have gone before… https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/21/alan-haythornthwaite-obituary Alan Haythornthwaite obituary From 1980 to 1998 he was manager … Continue reading
intercession
Sowa ayii Sowa aha sowa wa x2 https://www.google.com/search?q=fallen+soldier+lying+on+back+sculpture+bronze+germany+war+memorial&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjbh4igpOHoAhXaXs0KHahrAz8Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=fallen+soldier+lying+on+back+sculpture+bronze+germany+war+memorial&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1CvyQJY5tkCYJXcAmgAcAB4AIABVogBgwiSAQIxM5gBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1n&sclient=img&ei=CTKSXpvfINq9tQao1434Aw&bih=850&biw=1573&client=safari&safari_group=9 For the splash page to Sense: Orientations, Meanings, Apparatus there is a picture of the author as a young child against a pink background of the scanned text and with a green … Continue reading
Erotic Reconnections
Sniff and Sip — Sip and Sniff Taste is made for pairings — grounds you even more in the now more than smell : it’s on the tip of your tongue Taste is a sense that loves to be paired … Continue reading
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Three Badges for Basic Skills
I have given away nearly all my badges. There are three that I kept for a special occasion. This is it. To my constant reader and my appreciative audience: Orientation: A set of signposts that represent our need to ask … Continue reading
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bones to pick
At the ending… Brian Simoneau “The Fossil Record” https://www.briansimoneaupoet.com/ Until now I was never one of those kids obsessed with dinosaurs. Scientists say we find, with luck, maybe forty percent of a specimen’s bones and reconstruct the rest. […] Every … Continue reading
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First Lesson: Proper Names
T.H. White The Sword in the Stone Merlyn is not yet officially Wart’s tutor but the lessons have begun. Two points to capture the implications of this scene: 1) Arthur is nicknamed Wart, (rhymes with Art, short for his real … Continue reading
Judith Kerr on Mog the Cat: images and words
From an episode of BBC’s Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07kjbsv At 22:55 into the interview Sue Lawley: The text and the pictures, your illustrations are very interwoven aren’t they? Sometimes one takes the narrative lead; sometimes the other. Kerr: I started … Continue reading
Licking the Good Finger
This was making the rounds in 2000… it’s timeless in its wisdom. Des étudiants en médecine reçoivent leur premier cours d’anatomie avec un vrai corps humain. Ils sont tous réunis autour d’une table d’opération avec le corps recouvert d’un drap … Continue reading
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Dare I Teach a Peach?
Reading and participating in the discussion surrounding Kathleen Fitzpatrick‘s Generous Thinking made me primed. I immediately perked up to the possibilities of an analogy with scholars and librarians and teachers and farmers in David Mas Masumoto‘s description of a farmer’s … Continue reading
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