What Crosses My Mind

  • Distance Learning

    So, I imagined this happening, the wave of the virus, would shut us down, remove our access to the classroom.   A part of me appreciated the break, I could still with students, have a dialogue in the distance, never contemplated the reality.   Then the news, the overbearing sentence of every teacher, every student,…

  • On Positive Outcome

    We have these moments we, the human beings where emotions begin our day, end our nights, decide our way.   We sometimes cannot move a muscle our bodies so strong, resilient frozen to the ground, the nature of a piece of soft furniture becomes the bastion covet our ill.   Today, nature’s frozen ground sure…

  • Pleasure Breeze

    Alphabet WordPress Photo of the Day – Alphabet Wakeful notion reach slow across the room fresh, still in haze, life sweep in turn toward recognition, remembrance, reflection, when in last recall, we would wander now. Halo to draw away the veil of doom passing a glance beyond gather forward cast shadow aside; sweet inspiration reliance, resilient,…

  • Our Charges Return

    Streaming in waves, in smiles and raves, the children are arriving this morning, we will welcome all of you with open arms, readied our rooms, and ironed our ties, the days ahead are only meant for you. innocent eyes, and worrisome nights, children of our halls, determined and right. ~ I stepped into the constant…

  • Begin Now

    When they said, ‘wait for tomorrow’ they might have followed with a rhapsody of torment in eruptive skies. For we do seek explosive reckoning, when a sudden cathartic, a ‘now’ moment as mother always cried in the midst of change, what opportunity lies in the future is exactly our temptation. If only I might be…

  • State of Mind

    Well it seems rather simple when we look it square in the eye, you’re either thinking racist thoughts or your not, it seems like it ought to be that simple in our world today, yet, we now have to include state of mind. ~ We used to get away with recognizing hatred as evil, a…

  • When Priority Screams

    When that was real and time suddenly slowed, I stood alone, I wondered, I couldn’t hold ~ my own, I needed a shoulder, somewhere to talk, couldn’t imagine the fear in every step I would walk. ~ The blur of what was seemingly important just minutes before, became a trivial memory of dust. ~ When…

  • Energy Drive

    In my home town there is a street named Energy Drive I often think of that avenue wondering if I stood on a curb I might soak in that guidance be drawn by the concept of its strength. I understand the name is drawn from industry symbolic of discovery Yet, I need to capture that…

  • What Really Matters

    Taking a drive Want to cruise the landscape Roadblocks always seem To slam my path At a most convenient time For others. Brings me to my first vista We do like to focus on them Rather than perhaps, ah, ahem Looking deep into our own psyche Wait Not so fast Let’s talk about them a…