Archive for September, 1997

The Greatest Is Love

Last Monday was a nice day. It was an awesome day. It was a disturbing day. It was a profound day. It was an educating day. It didn’t start out that way. I had returned a week earlier from an exhilarating two days of offering master teacher presentations to students, staff and faculty at North [...]

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Where Has All The Joy Gone?

Nice walk this morning. The hot, stagnating south Georgia summer is letting go and the invigorating, cool touches of fall are strengthening. As each of those wisps of fresh autumn air touched me, I started thinking about a bunch of separate but associated things. I thought about a long conversation I had with a student [...]

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Freedom to Teach

It’s about 5:00 a.m. I just came in from an exhilarating six mile walk that more than usual put me deeper and deeper into a reflective mood with every step. Those pre-dawn hours are inexplicable magic for me. These dark streets before dawn are a meditative quiet and calming place and time for “getting to [...]

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