some thinking about education

 it all comes back to education -- did you learn to think, carefully, critically, and to know how to locate reputable resources for information?

how about we do us all a tremendous favor and promote critical thinking and promote critical thinking and promote critical thinking and then promote civic education

The real education reform needs to start at pre-K -- developing milieus for developing minds to help children access their world's knowledge while engaging them in social skill building activities.

Once kids have learned how to learn and find/use resources, college as we know it becomes irrelevant.  Rather, we could develop an industry of mentors who help others find and organize appropriate curricula for their goals.

he best policy effort for all of our futures would be compassionate emotional education from pre-K all the way through schooling.  People need to be taught to dialog, and too much "education" is about keeping still and being led by experts/authorities.

We could get serious as a society about citizen education rather than concentrating on core curricula based on perceived economic utility.

Reading histories from a variety of perspectives, discussion that emphasizes critical thinking, deconstruction of current events, cooperative projects, field trips to courts and legislative sessions and public meetings, all with an attitude of we are all citizens together with the power to effect better governance.

where are our education facilitators, creating easy instructions, mentoring and resource guidance for a reasonable fee to help less self-directed or informed students get their education from free sources?

shake it off

  

it’s well past time for our legislators to stop worrying about costs in dollars rather than costs in lives and resources

after all, the money is a cultural fiction only made real by the “full faith and credit” of the nation that creates it

 

 

 

it wasn't the Progressive messages that worried voters, it was the Trumpublican lies  -- we need these policies to have the benefit of truthtellers who speak clearly, loudly, persistently

 

 

 

 

I am sooo sick of people refusing to think for themselves under the rubric of thinking for yourself – freely enjoy the conspiracy theories your mind makes up for your entertainment to pick apart looking for possibilities of truth; please, do not give over your life and mind to others’ imaginary worlds (or words)

 

 

 

 

how about instead of labeling (maybe to feel superior, or to tell yourself they're broken, there's nothing you can do) we really see each other and our needs?  If people didn't feel the need to be always defending against the prejudices of others maybe we would be much more mentally well.

 

 

 

I assume unless someone you know

gets dreadfully ill or dies, others'

suffering means nothing to you.

 

I thought you were joking,

or some kind of word salad art.

 

 

You expect me to respect, be

understanding to you.

While for me these you feel

no desire to do.

Stalemate, Gridlock, increasing

pain ensues.

 

 

It's not about your f'ing skin.

It's about their need to stamp

out difference, to assert their

authority.

 

 

 

11/17-21/20

new dawn in progress

Twilight at the Dark of the Moon

 

 

Moving inward.

Spiraling

into deepest silence.

Feel me here,

oh my most darling.

Here is the free-est flow,

river of bliss.  Bounty

of years of grey resistance,

incrementally awakened to

swirling shades --

mystic purples,

mad magentas,

sky-eyed blues.

There is ancient music,

crescendos to peals.

Layered millennial ears,

creatures of seas to trees

murmur through.

Ripples of soundwaves,

broker wisdom

not yet condensed into words.

Romances spun of clay and sand,

woven into fashion’s fabrics.

Hearty voices join,

create regaled mythology.

Star-shaped world story

reverberates with

chill and heat.

Nascent strive for enriched clarity

that must open ever more widely,

a luminous spiral

up, out, in, around.

Come, brave as you imagine.

In that brief eternal interval

all of energy

coalesces.

 

 

sow and weep

while you sleep

a new day grows.

 

 

 

Each new day we relive the old, acting out dramas unresolved.

All we need to do is breathe to play to dance into our unbound creation.

 

 

 

dawn could be inspiration,

bounteous gifts free of obligation,

uplift of

energy gleefully received.

 

 

 

This is the first measure of the first movement,

a pirouette, a dervishly delightfilled whirl.

Cast upon this rocky estuary, dance inner wise,

third eye calling dawn into destiny.

 

 

 

Symphonies,

drums at dawn.

Inspiration and instruction

carried forth through song

 

 

 

Birdsong, voices conflating

the sum of experience,

let loose into this foggy dawn.

Colours, still subtle,

arranging,

catch liquid,

dissolve in

undulating air --

tell a story.

 

 

 

Dawn's pink-purple hue

breaks through over time

while I wander in dreaming.

 

 

 

Words of Peace

speak beyond structured language

sharing profoundly

in joy,

graceful dancing

to music of each dawn.

 

 

 

A bright dawn upon the kingdom

offers sparkling hope,

new dreams aborning.

 

 

 

Early morning dawn awakening

to a season of wild abandon

a golden moment of sensation

In a flash -- alive to an open season

Alive to a new awakening

Alive

 

 

 

Dawning form seeps toward reward,

to speak out what’s been found.

 

 

 

charge fiercely into each new

dawn.

Initiate, ignite.

 

 

We are calling in the dawn

Calling, gently, our many voices

How do we call thee, oh joyfully smiling mother

Welcome arising in our hearts,

Anointing our many-colored soul.

Take in the day

Rejoice in the sunshine

We are alove and strong

In primeval paradise

Upon a windswept beach

Our eyes, our arms

Raised in blessing

Totality is ours

There is no darkness.

 

 

 

dawn

upon dawn.

Listen for enchanting pipes

of Pan to follow, drawn on

painted sky.

What was lost may be re-crafted.

Daring quests begun anew.

In a world of lads and lasses

hale and strong, brave and true.

Joined in conjure,

raise our glasses.

Do as we must do.

 

 

 

    Hope emanates, flows into form.

    Another day dawns and lingers.

    We journey on.

 

 

 

peeping dawn high in colors of awe.

 

 

 

What world is this

in swaddling clothes

at the break of dawn?

 

 

 

 

Deafening nightmare, desperate storm

give way to rainbows, peaceful dawns.

 

 

 

before the dawn

take peace into each breath, each incantation

from the strength to align impeccably

with your deepest truth

 

childish agonies

dispelled with dawn's

bright kiss,

 

 

 

Imagine the day that dawns when

you are no longer dreaming.

 

 

 

 

 

A new day is dawning, but is it sun or storm?

 

 

 

The new day dawning

it will encounter clouds and hailstorms,

turbulence and destruction.

It will be a day of startling showers and

unsettled wind,

of unreasoned pain

and empty solace.

It will be a day to try our souls.

But it will be a day of infinite possibilities.

 

 

 

A new day dawning in the

drizzle and the pain

[These little moments

of presence, of meaning

when for a bit all is clear

That's what we're doing here.]

Another chance to revel in the rain

 

 

 

 

Through weary hours of bitter nights

It helps if we can fix our sight

upon the rays of morning.

 

 

 

Some bright good morning of

fish and loaves, cake and wine,

capacious tribes adjoin in movement.

Shining line of peace.

Terror’s fear released.

 

 

 

A new day is dawning, but where is the sun?

Our freedom and faith are defined by the gun.

The symbol of power overrules everyone

'Til we create our own electricity.

A new day is dawning, look up everyone,

it's time to rejoice in the dawn.

 

 

 

New days, new dawns, new destinations

open endless, unforeseen segues.

Wonder creates, merrily navigates veils

as each falls, cast  away.

Luminous celestial array.

Lightning aurora bursts

expose prospective trails.

New days, new dawns, new destinations

open into never seen visions.

Wonder creates, gracefully navigates

through veils each cast  away.

Luminous color array.

Lightning aurora

bursting through.

 

 

 

ascend into sacred muse-ways.

Every day a new day

 

 

 

I walk softly in the morning.

Drink awakening dew, sunbeam blessed.

I take what has always been mine,

cherish magnificence

and leave rough visions

of apocalypse to human eyes.

 

 

 

morning sunshine

burns off fog.

Glistening sky and the luxury

of self-companionship.

Ready, take aim, begin. 

twilight at the dark of the moon

 the different paths we tend to take,

some caught up in hate and drama

while others do the work that we

all need to move forward. 

I saw a little cartoon in my mind's eye

wherein rather than the rule of

if you don't work you don't eat,

if you don't work you don't get to complain. 

Doing the work we see how difficult

it can be, what skills we need to develop,

and then can understand what our real

complaints that help us see what changes

to look toward ought to be.

 

 

 

hypermasculinity

because being born with balls is

never enough, only threshold necessity,

too much to live up to,

too little to sustain

 

 

 

You People,

putting my health and life

in danger out of stupidity,

foolishness,

how ought I act in self-defense?

 

 

 

Freedom as a national creed

does not mean everyone gets

to do whatever we like all the time.

Rather, we do as we choose within

the bounds of rules fairly and clearly

defined and enforced while each and all

have true opportunities to question,

critique, offer our thoughts about how

we would prefer to proceed.

 

 

 

11/9-11/20

live and learn

 The giants who guided your childhood

never taught you the rules of reality,

instead filled your head with cotton candy,

sweet and sticky,

but ultimately

deadly.

 

 

toWith attack so ubiquitous

we must inured ourselves

to survive.

 

 

I know I carry philosophical biases,

(and philosophy for me is much more

than some being theories, but the

architecture of my mind)

habits of categorizing and swaying,

yet naturally I incline toward fairness

when untethered from desire.

 

 

To fight back against fear,

take your power where you can

to improve the situation,

not impede those who already are.

 

 

What we know untangles

layer by layer

entwined with time.

 

 

Flinging talking points,

as if intelligent speaking

would make you seem uncool.

 

 

There are no perfect people

therefore no perfect reports.

For information meaningful to you,

do your due diligence to dig out

the facts and essence.

 

 

There is no going back to normal.

We are in adaptation to our new

situation.  Don't look back --

adapt.

 

 

Not sorry for but sorry that

people create such horrors.

Not taking responsibility for acts

I have no power to allay -- just

expressing profound sorrow

that we live amidst such inhumanity.

 

 

Medicate with mysterious chemicals

that mostly don't work as we want

while adding new irritants and agonies

because nobody likes who your present as,

behaviors based on habits made in ignorance

because no one taught you better.

Teach and learn with others who struggle

if you can together find good moderators to inform.

 

 

 

since anyone can claim anything in regard to what “scientists” said, I prefer to base my understandings on logic and good sense – obviously blocking an airborne virus’ access to one’s nose and mouth, and blocking airborne viruses from our noses and mouths to those of others is going to be effective in lessening transmission, plus look at how well a culture of mask-wearing is working in many Asian countries, plus look at how historically it helped to get beyond the 1918 Spanish Flu and other illnesses in other places – not to mention all the medical professionals and studies that do indicate that it works

 

 

 

 

the Constitution does not give a number for SC Justices but leaves all that to Congress (not POTUS) -- "court packing" is not a governmental but a press invention to give a negative connotation for what is just our US system of checks and balances, Congress thus having this check against the Court

 

 

 

 

a thing with socialism (and probably most isms) is they get defined and redefined and redefined based on the biases of the speaker, so which "socialism" are you referring to when you say you like or hate it?

 

 

 

 

people seem to think that a POTUS can decree and fix anything -- I know, Trump, but what has he actually fixed?

 

People:  most of this stuff is not in the powers of the President, more of it goes to Congress, but much of it goes to us, the citizens, the workers, the stakeholders, so stop insisting this or that from Biden and do your part.

 

 

 

10/16-11/7/20