It's been eight months since my last book review. Which would seem to suggest I've either read nothing, or have not read anything worth reviewing since February this year. For the record, neither's the case! I guess you can say life just has a way of interrupting us. (Or maybe it's just me that gets … Continue reading Book Review — what art does: an unfinished theory
EVERY Every meal timeYou will hear me shoutingMOUTH! Every meal timeYou will reply withBITING! But are you really?Or just delaying toEAT! Every other momentYou will hear me call outSWALLOW Every other other momentYou will (if you care to)GULP Every time I tell youLet me hear you sayYES DADDY LET'S GO Every time insteadYou will ask … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #260
The following post I wrote last month first appeared here. [TLDR: Changing the parenting script from one that incorporates hurtful words to one that affirms our kids. To avoid adverse childhood experiences that may scar them into adulthood.] Before we dive into a discussion on how to rewrite the parenting script, there’s something we need to think … Continue reading Re-writing The Parenting Script – Changing The Way We Speak To Kids
The Sign Of These Times This chapter suddenly closesAnd I still have no idea why Was I really that loud?Did it sound more like a shout? But 22 years have come and goneI don't remember seeing such a callTo have me pipe down a decibel or moreSuddenly the students are keeping score And you said … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #259
The 17th-century English clergyman and historian Thomas Fuller once said He that plants trees loves others besides himself. I'm no garden enthusiast nor do I believe I have green fingers. Nor can it be said I always love others besides myself. But I would like to believe my wife and I are spreading some love … Continue reading Self Care — With Indoor Plants And A Slow Juicer
Fantasy Fiction Feelings Entering a world Of monsters and dragonsWitches and warlocksHeroes and legendsBuilding up a rich storehouse Of fantasy fiction feelingsLearning about life through tales and loresShoring up unknown feelingsSo we know how to respond Next time in non-fiction realm That's the power of storyThat's why fiction existsIt's what we need to understand lifeIts … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #258
Famous author and Oxford University Professor CS Lewis once remarked: Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.' I'm guessing, though I'm sure it's not a stretch, that he must also have had community in mind when he said that. I … Continue reading Sharing The Power Of Community Building & Beholding
The Inheritance Of Loss Lately I've been made to realise a conclusionI've long spoken of but also avoidedThat my days of imparting seem numberedFaster than a meteor shower Once I thought this was me foreverOnce I believed a Higher PowerHad called me to this noble causeEternal. But now All's left now is an Inheritance of … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #257
Recently, I wrote about leaving the teaching profession within the next five to seven years. Little did I expect that an email I received three days ago would make me rethink this timeline. It seems I was five to seven years off the mark. I should in fact leave the profession a whole lot sooner! … Continue reading Musings On Teaching Challenges #2: Fast-Tracking My Post-Teaching Future
The Bell of Hope Ring forth the BellThe Bell of JoyThe Bell of HopeThe Bell of Life Ring forth in 18 months timeBecauseIt means we survived The visits Every three weeksTo receive the sister dripsPaclitaxel and Carboplatin Not forgettingThe lone rangerBevacizumab(Can't they have simpler names?!) We will put them upTemporarilyAs long as they workTo ...keep … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #256
