ENVIRONEMENT of the enviornment of environmental-ism

Environed Mentalism

Advising & Assessment:

Twin Towers of a small
liberal arts college—
plenty of advising
plenty of assessment

We’re not like the big
guys where your child
might could get lost.
No one cares: sink
or swim

But a good small
liberal arts college
makes up for large
by lots of advising
& also with much
assessment: the
alphas and the
omegas of hire
education.

Size matters.

No one need fall
thru cracks paved
with good intention.

Environed Mental Studies

“...All the unhappiness of men
arises from one single fact: that
they cannot stay quietly in their
own chamber.” Blaise Pascal

& the greening grass grows all
around: Leeds certified & retro
fitted local food, alternative
fuels, hybrid cars, steep slope
regulation, shrimp cocktails &
number of floors the conservancy
allows Pack Square condos:
things getting better all the
time.

Environmental issues as
opposed to environed
mental issues: psyche’s
amniotic atmosphere, me:
swimming so all-wet I
can't conceive of damp,
sustaining my sustain
abilities LIKE say fresh
myn composition damnit
these kids can’t write:
ratchet it up; or me failing
to swell a progress, start a
scene or two perturb the
universe: so I do more
of the same, sustaining
my sustain abilities;
occluding my un-
sustain abilities.

Where’s Rachel Carson of
Hire Education when I need
her chronic call for change
incommensurate in kind, no
more matters of degree doing
industrial edu-culture like I
always done it! Organic
gardening in the classroom?
double dig and abandon all
pesticides plus no more black
plastic sheeting to educe a
mono crop excluding weedy
wise acres? I would lose
control. Contra Rotuli!

I told Ann T: “Look, just
take the “required” out
of Composition & see how
your many organizational
& procedural problems go
away like black birds
singing the dead
of night!”

“Not going to happen, Sam,”
pooh poohing my efforts to
think out of the pox.

Ludicrous to the Savvy;
Offensive to the Conscientious.
Twin Scandals of Sustain ability
sustaining the Un-sustain-able in
the Name of The Sustainable.

Thinking out-of-the-box is one
kind of a deal; thinking out-of-
the-box-back-into-the-box-doing-
NO-injustice-to-in-the-box-OR-
out-of-the box: a course of another
color—terror to the sustain abilities
as I know them: like BB Wolf at
my door. Iit’s a brick house.

How to make IT cool? Or hot?
Environed Mental studies (not to
be conflated, collapsed or confused
with yr. environmental studies) &
leadership programs? Or traumatic?
Advise. Advice.

xxxooo, Presbyter