"Storm Warning" by Jim Kunstler"For all his apparent clownishness and crudity, Mr. Trump’s counter-resistance may be all that stands, for the moment, between the DNC-sponsored Jacobin jihad, and what remains of a coherent consensus of genuine American values. History is a prankster, of course, and the joke is that Mr. Trump expresses that defense of coherence so incoherently, as in Tulsa the other night. Alas, the joke is on us, but among the many lost lessons of public education in our time is the comprehension that life is tragic. Things work mysteriously, and they don’t always work out.Mischief is everywhere and America is overwhelmed by that mischief, and the next two weeks are liable to be an awful test to...
The myth of Hervé Guibert is that of the cruelly beautiful man who betrayed his friends, the writer of sex and death who would die of a sexually-transmitted disease. This myth owes its origins to a single book, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. The volume was an autofiction: drawing from life while not being bound purely to the facts. But the truth it told was undeniable. It laid bare the symptoms of and treatments for the disease that had just befallen the narrator and author; readers quickly understood that the only reason it turned its gaze upon the philosopher Michel Foucault was to lay bare the reality of how he, too, had in fact died of...
*This post contains affiliate links at no charge to you. A small commission is earned if you purchase through a link.* All opinions are my own! So you’re a fourth grade teacher? Or upper elementary? Maybe it’s your first classroom….moving to new school…..new grade level…..new state? Whether you’ve been in 4th grade for long or not, let’s dive in to what you really need. Make sure to read ALL the way through for some great FREE ideas! Going straight off my own classroom experience combined national standards let’s look at what EXACTLY you could use and need to help your 4th grade students succeed with a fourth grade teacher supply list- What every 4th grade teacher needs to have! The...
"Siddhartha"by Hermann Hesse "Siddhartha" is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of a boy known as Siddhartha from the Indian Subcontinent during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple yet powerful and lyrical style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in India in the 1910s. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. Hesse dedicated "Siddhartha" to Romain Rolland, "my dear friend".The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language, siddha (achieved) + artha (meaning or wealth). The two words together mean "he who has found meaning (of existence)"...
Have you ever heard of convergence insufficiency? Did you even know that quite often, children who have convergence insufficiency are misdiagnosed with ADD, and when treated with appropriate vision therapy, become almost completely different children? My then 8-year-old son was referred to a developmental optometrist last year. His new occupational therapist suggested Dr. Bryce Appelbaum of Appelbaum Vision in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Appelbaum is board certified in Vision Therapy and Rehabilitation by the College of Optometrists in Vision Development. My son was in Occupational therapy for dyspraxia and dysgraphia, but his OT thought his vision had something to do with his problems and since I trusted her, I figured I’d check him out. If honest, I thought I might be...
