What A Teacher Can Do

What A Teacher Can Do

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour William Blake, Auguries of Innocence Pierce High School in Arbuckle, California is not the kind of place you would expect a young boy to...
Fire !

Fire !

A typical winter day: cold, clear, calm, quiet.  I walked downstairs from the bedroom in the house next to the restaurant, the historic Jacob Stauer House.   In the kitchen below, I looked out the window into the garden behind the Inn.  There wasn’t much left of the...
At This Point In Time

At This Point In Time

At This Point In Time   There have been no blossoms during the entire election season. The slight limbs of trees and plants bend from the weight of closed buds.   There is no color. Bees remain sullen in the dark intricacies of their swollen homes hung like...
The Meaning of Life

The Meaning of Life

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”   Albert Camus, Intuitions, October 1932 Friday Poem   Risk failure Risk looking stupid Risk trying Risk personal...