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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 !
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...
Poem by Think in the Morning: The Crossing
The Crossing for my friend, Renato Aquino Mora I arrived in Mexico City by bus. I was carrying two thousand US. At the airport, I was robbed. The two of them had a knife. “Give us your money or we’ll kill you.” “I don’t have any money.” “You expect us to...
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
“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...
Where The Artists Play
The artists arrived so quietly the locals could not say when Mendocino became an artists’ colony. Like a solitary ant that finds a pot of honey laying down its pheromones to attract the others, one artist discovered the beauty of the Mendocino Coast, then another,...
The Attic – Where Artists And Browsers Can Meet
The elemental properties that made up the Sea Gull Restaurant were food, art, music, people, and place. The atmosphere ultimately created was one of home and family. The properties and atmosphere came together at a particular point in time. It was during the...
Angst
“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous...
The Sad Story of Three Misfits
Three men I knew but not as well as I thought—a father, a disgruntled employee, a son. Tragedy, families ruined, a bizarre plot to assassinate a President and detonate a dirty bomb in Washington D.C. by a disturbed young man who according to a TIME magazine reporter...
Coffee
Panorama photo of Martin Schmidt's coffee art by Krissy Jones Farmer Brothers locked up the restaurant market by loaning out equipment—stainless cabinets, brewing machines, pots, and other essential accessories. The policy helped cash-poor restaurateurs by...
May 11
This odd mathematical coincidence caught my eye today as I was trolling Twitter. Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 (see Maria Popova's article at Brain Pickings) Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981 -- See below Maria Popova @brainpicker For Richard Feynman's...
How I Learned To Eat Escargot
Snail shells are one of many examples of the Golden Spiral in nature. One way to approximate the Golden Spiral is with a mathematical series called the Fibonacci series. The ratio between consecutive Fibonacci numbers approaches the golden ratio as the Fibonacci...