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Why I Turned Off My Cell Phone on the Camino – camino times two

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Walking together from Le Puy to Finesterre. Why I Turned Off My Cell Phone on the Camino. December 7, 2016. December 7, 2016. I admit it: I have. The instinctive urge to reach for the phone every time there’s a pause in life: waiting in line, or before a show or movie starts, or on the busor when there’s just a break in conversation. Am I missing something? What are other people doing? The desire to take a picture and share it, immediately, so that other people know what. Doing, and what. Somehow, life h...

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Going Backwards, Going Forwards: Peacemaking with Vonnegut’s Slippery Time – Gyroscopic Force

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Obstacles Make the Story. Going Backwards, Going Forwards: Peacemaking with Vonnegut’s Slippery Time. September 11, 2014. Today is the Anniversary of September 11. 2001 tragedies. Last night President Obama spoke of the military operations to be carried out in Iraq and Syria. My heart sank. I know that there is immense suffering, and immense hatred and cruelty. While his presentation is more palatable than when we heard something similar over a decade ago, it also seems very much the same. When the bombe...

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Wallace Stevens Poem – Gyroscopic Force

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Obstacles Make the Story. May 20, 2015. I’m working from the library today. Sometimes I like to pull a book from the stacks and read a poem or a few pages. Today. Wallace Stevens’ Collected Poems. Was the spine that caught my attention. Leafing through the table of contents I saw the title of this poem. I was reminded of my sorely neglected blog, and thought perhaps I’d share it so that. Bonnie and Josie,. Dressed in calico,. Danced around a stump. Of flesh and air. Get In Where You Fit In.

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Four Score and Seven Years in Tibet – Gyroscopic Force

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Obstacles Make the Story. Four Score and Seven Years in Tibet. June 24, 2015. 8220; Seven Years in Tibet. Fear of loss is a reactive kind of motivation. The kind that I’m trying to move away from. It’s also the kind of motivation that I want my people to move away from. In this moment in time, when I speak of my people, I mean America. November 19, 1863. Seven Years in Tibet. 2 thoughts on “Four Score and Seven Years in Tibet”. July 2, 2015 at 1:10 am. One of my favorite movies! July 2, 2015 at 1:10 am.

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What’s It Like To Have Summers Off? | Citizen Teacher

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Education for a more humane and democratic society. What’s It Like To Have Summers Off? Posted on August 11, 2015. As a teacher, I am often asked, What’s it like to have summers off? Summertime is a very. Special time for me as a teacher. It isn’t, however, time off from work. It it is NOT a vacation. I make. A 3-day conference on Interdisciplinary Units in the Middle Years Program (IB). NErDcampMI presenters, Kristin LeBlanc. Beth Shaum, and Kevin English. A full day of literacy workshops at nErDcampMI.

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C. Matthias – Gyroscopic Force

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Obstacles Make the Story. March 18, 2017. With all of the calm. Will be the final chance. For the recently departed, the soon leaving, for you, and for me. January 21, 2017. Is directly connected to graciousness and gratefulness. This hatefulness that you bring to the scene is a different thing. Profanity can touch upon humanity,. But what you’re grabbing at. Is like piling cinderblocks atop a canvas canopy. Heads are shaking saying. Today you laid your hand on a book. Some earnest prayer prayed,. A shoc...

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Dear Reader—No Decisions Required. – Gyroscopic Force

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Obstacles Make the Story. Dear Reader No Decisions Required. September 18, 2014. Everyday I come home from work, open up the front door and pick up a pile of junk mail, bills, maybe a parcel that I’ve sent to myself. Maybe it’s a book that someone recommended. Maybe I’ll read the first half of it. We’ll see. But there is the blue moon. One such fellow is my dear friend Tony. With a cluster of socially awkward tendencies, he could have easily sat outside of anything resembling a community. That year I rec...

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Blogs I Love – Gyroscopic Force

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Obstacles Make the Story. This is the Blog of the Heckman family’s year in Bergen, Norway. If you love hilarity, and grand beauty, stop reading this description immediately and get over there! Philadelphia artist, and fellow Siena Heights University alum Brook Hine, is a master of organic abstract sculpture. Check out pictures of her art, and find out when you can see it in a gallery. Details on the blog of course…. Expect to see more powerful writing here soon. Simplification Southeast Michigan style!

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Man in Motion – Gyroscopic Force

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Obstacles Make the Story. September 17, 2014. I think it was the Greeksyes, Zorba the Greek. He stood, and called Gerda to his side and said May you have an interesting night. I watched the stars appear. With nothing left to do but follow the example of the birds, I settled into my nest of a sleeping bag and tarp, my boots just within reach. But nothing ever came. My interesting night consisted of a terrified dance with my fears. I am a man in motion. I write this publicly, rather than in a personal ...

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Commemoration – Gyroscopic Force

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Obstacles Make the Story. June 19, 2015. 8220;it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”. Dad in some beautiful mountains of his own. My Grandpa and Dad enjoying some nature. After my grandmother passed away, I tried to extend my ritual by making a point to call him or stop down to his house on the anniversary to say hello and that I was remembering the day. What surprised me was his response: “There’s nothing special about today.”. Continuing a family tradition of finding my own mountains. On Insti...