Woodlands and Clark Park

London Plane trees soar
magnificently shading
blocks where they remain.

Torrential downpours,
Gentle rains have disappeared.
Garden beds drenched

Cooked, not cooking.
Always infuriated.
Summer please come soon.

Moon dog waits for me
Holding winter weight and fur
Soon dog, summer comes.

QOTD: “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of lessons that history has to teach us.”

Aldous Huxley

1959, Collected Essays by Aldous Huxley, Essay: A Case of Voluntary Ignorance, (From Esquire Magazine), Start Page 308, Quote Page 308, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York. (Verified with scans)

Haiku of the day:

Spring morning memory:
Swim lessons, freezing water,
Fifty years ago.

Haiku #1:

The word serenity
A prayer, a state of mind.
Seeking not grasping.

Haiku #2:

Leaves have all arrived
Racoon runs across the street
No Mosquitoes yet.

Rage Quit?

Listening to EK on GLP-1s with Julia Belluz.

One in eight Americans? One in eight? One in eight?

SGB, 7:18 AM

Haiku of the day:

Is there a good way?
I never know, though there is
no way to be sure.

From the New Yorker. I want to use this with my incoming ninth graders; ironic, too, that we had a conversation on Wednesday about how to teach organization. This is a perfect cartoon for those sorts of conversations.

Used this passage in Really Big Books to talk about identity and emotions. Can you teach people to talk about emotions? Can or should it be done in school?

Alderton, Dolly. “Good Material.” Albert A. Knopf, 2025. https://search.worldcat.org/title/1393303599.

Haiku:
So proud of my son,
Graduating in four years!
I did not do that.

I loved this book. Hughes, Siân. Pearl. Vintage, 2025.