Loco Food
(Gardening
Without Tuxedos)
My
classes suck.
Waste
time. Sitting on the dock of the bay.
Watching
the tide wash away. Confuse.
Demoralize—disillusion
if lucky. Antithetical
and
antagonistic to Rigor, Clarity, Consistency,
Coherence, Covering-Ground, MovingOnDown
theRoad,
GetRdone. Aims. Goals. Rubric
Generated
Measurable Objectives
Dominant
academic values and pair of
dimes:
I respect and appreciate and salute
them
all. Wouldn’t be the man-I-am today
were
it not for some what all those values.
Finished
Product Values. Consumer values.
Grade
Point Average Values. Patter n Values.
Patriarchal
Values. Digital & Discrete and
Left-Brained
Values. Practical and
Instrumental
Values. Values anyone would
want
one’s heart, neuro surgeon and airline
pilot
to hold dearly. Rocket Science Values.
Cicadas
buzz over head in the Groves of
Academe.
Our ancestors, Socrates called
them “It’s not easy being green.”
I
said Right-Brained but it’s the Left-Brain
that
dominates—so to speak and to
rationalize,
distinguish and separate . The
principal
stood behind me in 4th grade—
forbidding left-handedness: rescuing me
for
an adroit world. In the early 60’s
a
Philadelphia Dr.realized damaged patients
could
reanimate dead function if they
re-trained
the other side of their brains,
family
and friends giving hours moving
the
incapacitated limbs through crawling
motions
simulating very early childhood.
A
friend of mine crawled thru Bucks County
fields
for a month to prepare for law school
exams—guessing
it would stimulate synapses.
Invigorate
the corpus callosum. I shifted from
left
to right-handed writing in the mid 70s
because
of carpe diem tunnels and also
to
get smart and smarter. I told students
of
this practice and one asked: “are you any
smarter?”
“Oh, yes, “ I replied. “Significantly
so.”
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