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.
Back to work today
The four miles to school on foot
Breathe easy my friend.
SGB, 07:31 AM
Haiku of the day:
Noise so much noise
Seeking quiet here makes no
sense whatsoever.
Lyric of the day:
Everything is not enough
And nothin’ is too much to bear
Where you been is good and gone
All you keep’s the getting there.
(TVZ)
SGB, 7:38AM
Haiku of the day
Tumbleweed collects
Junk, leaves, remnants, but mostly
Rolls along, itself.
Listening to Ezra Klein talk to Stewart Brand.
Haiku of the day:
Sigh. Monday morning.
So many incomplete tasks.
Now you are walking.
Still working on memorizing this poem.
Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.
