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The Maple Line: April 2015
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Exploring the relationship between people and nature. Wednesday, April 8, 2015. In Which We Propose to Teach The Circle and Not The Line. My school had me put in my book order for the fall (no contract yet, but at least they anticipate my teaching.). Literature and The Environment has swung back around, and in addition to our anthology, this time I'm adding Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. My initial thought is this: I want my students to take their time with Silent Spring. Is still being felt, still being...
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The Maple Line: Listening For The Hawk
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Exploring the relationship between people and nature. Friday, November 23, 2012. Listening For The Hawk. I took the dogs out this morning. I have a stubborn male Maremma (a kind of Italian sheepdog) and an anxious little Border Collie. We travel a regular route (unless we’re feeling adventurous) up and around the house, across the road and through a neighboring field, then back up the front yard. It’s always different for the dogs, though, because they are picking up new information each time. Living her...
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The Maple Line: November 2012
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Exploring the relationship between people and nature. Friday, November 23, 2012. Listening For The Hawk. I took the dogs out this morning. I have a stubborn male Maremma (a kind of Italian sheepdog) and an anxious little Border Collie. We travel a regular route (unless we’re feeling adventurous) up and around the house, across the road and through a neighboring field, then back up the front yard. It’s always different for the dogs, though, because they are picking up new information each time. Living her...
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The Maple Line: An Invitation
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Exploring the relationship between people and nature. Wednesday, November 21, 2012. This place is where I live, but it’s where you live, too—that’s tough to reconcile, but you can’t think about rooms, at this point. I don’t want to show you my living room or any room, really. I want you to see outside. So forget the yellow farmhouse. There’s another place to see; it’s where another farmhouse used to be. It’s a bright sound; you like to hear it. And then, there is the Maple Line. It’s only my na...The Map...
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The Maple Line: In Which We Propose to Teach The Circle and Not The Line
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Exploring the relationship between people and nature. Wednesday, April 8, 2015. In Which We Propose to Teach The Circle and Not The Line. My school had me put in my book order for the fall (no contract yet, but at least they anticipate my teaching.). Literature and The Environment has swung back around, and in addition to our anthology, this time I'm adding Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. My initial thought is this: I want my students to take their time with Silent Spring. Is still being felt, still being...
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The Maple Line: The Fog and The Spring
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Exploring the relationship between people and nature. Sunday, April 5, 2015. The Fog and The Spring. Spring is nothing and everything. This particular spring morning was all fog- dense and silver- as I drove up the "Lincoln Highway" towards Jennerstown. No one thinks of this spiraling ridge road with such a respectable name anymore, though. It's just Route 30, the road up to the Laurel Summit, the way to Route 219 and my place of work in Johnstown. Here's the curious thing: the explosion that is spring, ...
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