I.E, deru - to be firm, enduring:: tree, trust, truth, troth

         
I.E. deru - to be firm, enduring --> tree, trust
                  truth, troth, dryad, druid

              Enviorn Mentalism

       Puns Don't Kill People: People Do
 
  
 
No decent middle class person would have waked
in the  50’s and said—think I’ll go down town and
get my butt tattooed, Tree of  Life  rising from my
rear end to spread  branches across my back—and
maybe a nose stud, because it wasn’t psyche-
environmentally  feasible or permissible except for
the marginal.
 
Not cool.
 
But now is.  Desirable and many  submit to a pain
they suffer willingly but would have found insufferable
in 1956. This could not happen if it weren’t, now,  cool.
 
        Got to be cool or forgetaboutit.
                   Need we argue?
 
I have  hope for Converse Action Across the Curriculum:
that it may become cool.  Environmental and Salutary —
like  Local Food & organic whatever: hybrids and
couple years ago Crocs.

No-carbon-foot-print Faculty Development.  

Gymnasium  (literally: “naked training” and
                                          margins for error
 
ERROR:  our MFA program was inherited from
Goddard College, not Bennington as I had said in
my brief hysteria.   I was corrected by a colleague
the other day.  This is the rich benefit of converse
action across the curriculum.

Colleagues have your back.  Make a mistake? No
big deal.  Colleagues all around to correct, improve
terms.  Set the record straight.

Feel Safe: Feel Safe.
Margins for error and  rooms for play.
Who can’t get better and good under
those collegial circumstances? 

Groves of Academe
The buzz of cicada in those ancient days
were considered spirits of dead philosophers!
        
          zzzZZZZZZZZZZzzz

School and Be Schooled.
Play and Be Played
How school is that? 

(I'm lit up from just finishing reading my American
Lit final exams.  What a delight!! Wit. Whim. Savvy.
Imagination. Makes responding to them a joy in the
 morning, unpostponed.  Counting the weeks.
katydids crank and ratchet all night long
now signaling end days of summer.)