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Teaching at Home…

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Teaching

Yesterday, I was a total failure at teaching
Until he decided he wanted to learn
That it was better than whining, this was no fun
He wanted to fist pump when he made an e correctly
He wanted to fist pump when he made a good 3
He wanted to fist pump when he circled 7 yellow cakes
He wanted to celebrate discovering that he can do the work
And see the word red among so many others
And I went from yawning, bored, to having fun,
He made me have fun, but tired
Is this what teaching is about?
How do you do this with a class of 30?
It must be exhausting!
Maybe it’s not a virus,
Rather collective exhaustion that sent kids home
To be taught by parents and grandparents
And it will be collective exhaustion that will send them back

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Keys to Success…

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Keys to success in business

  1. Be prepared
  2. See risk and opportunities
  3. Be prepared
  4. Persist through challenges
  5. Be prepared
  6. Take care of your team first
  7. Be prepared

How to Succeed

In things of intent, be prepared for all
As fate’s prospects for fortune rise or fall
Are not for you to now or ever know
But rather be prepared for all that show
For your opportunities will come
As will risk, as sure as the rising sun
And the one prepared will win the day
And in the final analysis will get to say
What goes here and what goes there
As well as what is mine and yours to share
And if you think of all the others first
Before yourself and your ambitious thirst
Then you’ll be the leader whose most prepared
When it’s time to act and for wisdom shared
And if your talent, preparation and fates allow
You’ll have success, as well as the team who follow
And joined in the joy of a journey of many wins
That build wealth of success as well as friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dark Thoughts…

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Dark Thoughts

Such dark thoughts that live
In his head, each betrayal and slight
For which he’ll never forgive
As he energizes for the next fight

Like a boxer, cheered on by those
Who bet on him to win
And jeered by others that chose
To hold him and pin him in

For fear of the tremendous wrath
Of this wrecking ball mind
Bent on clearing a devastating path
Through whatever he can find

That he defines as the other side
For which there can be no truce
Nor compromise he can abide
So, words and threats he lets loose

And the war is fought
With referees and judges unfair
And what we thought
Was there under his wild hair

Was not hope and care,
And positive works for all
But only the deep and dark despair
Of dark thoughts and their hopeless call

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Gale Force

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Gale Force

Gale force winds make such noise
As air rushing out of the balloon
Of the Southern Gulf of Mexico
Rushing to catch up with a storm
That will plow across Eastern states
Adding fuel to energize, to create havoc
Like a little boy with no impulse control
Let loose in a room of fragile china
And figurines, with thoughts of mischief
We listen as we hear him go by
Knowing he’ll be trouble for someone
And all we can do is hope and pray
That he just runs between the aisles
Making a lot of noise

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Music is in us…

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I read an article that reported that chimpanzees, our closest primate-relative will sway and dance when they hear music. Some birds, sea-lions and dogs can be trained to move with music… however chimpanzees move with music spontaneously, and have been observed in the wild rhythmically using sticks to create a beat and moving with a beat. It is theorized that music is something ingrained in our most ancient consciousness.

Music is in us

Ancient rhythms are in part of us
A feeling of connection among us
As mother child lullaby becalms us
And God’s first communication with us
Learning to express feeling between us
To call each other, and know it’s us
Then to move and dance, inspiring us
Forever, our world is better
…. Because the music is always in us

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As we watch…

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Dissembling

Cranes are remarkable constructions
Capable of rising to great heights
Or wreaking massive destructions

Assembling arguments to new heights
Democracy, purpose, constitution
Or devolve into win-lose power fights

It’s only a matter of what you will believe
As the words spill out like debris
Of wreaking ball lies that confuse and deceive

It’s our choice to endure dissembling
Or push for construction, constitution
And democracy’s future assembling

Poems

Trees … and Phone-Trees

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I’ve been a little too serious lately… so hopefully this is more fun!

One of my favorite poems was published in 1914 by Joyce Kilmer:

Trees
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

My comedic version:

Phone-Trees
I think that I should never hear
A poem lovely as, operator here.

A phone-tree hungry time consume
Against our lives it doeth presume;

A phone-tree that takes us all day
To find the right end we will pray;

The phone-tree may impatient wear
On thee, and cause radical loss of hair;

Upon our bosom a telephone is lain
As we wait on hold for something lame.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only Insurance companies
….. can make a damn phone-tree.

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Soreness

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Soreness

I woke this morning with numbness in my fingers
That came from my shoulder’s arthritic stingers
It is by the stretch of something that shouldn’t
Stretch beyond what I thought I couldn’t
And so, I’m proud of this, this precious sore
For it is work to strengthen to the core
This body that I let go to waste and age
When it need not be the end nor last page
That was written when I had the busy excuse
And I told myself, my mind was only thing of use