Summer School:
Biology
Edison High, Inner City Philadelphia
1. Noel pinky-sweared me he start coming to class on time. He's kept his promise.
2. Yanina realized shes smart. Shes been acing her assignments ever since.
3. Zuliema decided she wants to pass biology this summer. She's stopped sleeping and wants extra tutoring.
4. Hector and Luis gave me their emails so they could make up the extra work they missed when they were absent. Out of their own volition.
5. Alexia realized shes good at biology and has been on time every day since.
6. Erica was worried about failing again. She has a 93% in our class.
Despite some of the horrible lessons I've given, the hours I haven't slept, and the long road ahead before I can actually call myself a good teacher - these are some of the victories.
I love these kids more than life.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
God's Grandeur
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Spring
is starting to peek through.
winter ash skies leak light
anxious buds crack open (if only a hair)
and the first brave flowers creep up from frosty soil.
subtle hints,
but soon
Ohio just won't be able to contain herself.
meet hint one.
Ohio's first Spring Wildflower
the most dauntless of them all
Symplocarpus foetidus
aka Skunk Cabbage.
This strangely beautiful, albeit smelly, flower is the first to usher in Spring each year.
It blooms mid February - warming its flowers by producing and trapping heat within its hooded spadix.
And sitting snug, cozy in their enveloped fairy colonies, these flowers experience renewal long before the frog thaws and emerges from mud soaked sleep, before the pussy willow opens its first velvet bud, before the first underfur is loosed from the foxes coat.
Alone and content, they'll patiently wait for their neighbors to arise, and join them in greeting the equinox sun.
winter ash skies leak light
anxious buds crack open (if only a hair)
and the first brave flowers creep up from frosty soil.
subtle hints,
but soon
Ohio just won't be able to contain herself.
meet hint one.
Ohio's first Spring Wildflower
the most dauntless of them all
Symplocarpus foetidus
aka Skunk Cabbage.
This strangely beautiful, albeit smelly, flower is the first to usher in Spring each year.
It blooms mid February - warming its flowers by producing and trapping heat within its hooded spadix.
And sitting snug, cozy in their enveloped fairy colonies, these flowers experience renewal long before the frog thaws and emerges from mud soaked sleep, before the pussy willow opens its first velvet bud, before the first underfur is loosed from the foxes coat.
Alone and content, they'll patiently wait for their neighbors to arise, and join them in greeting the equinox sun.
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