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She/her. I'm currently a teacher at a small private school. I've previously worked in marketing, website/web app design, editing, and more underpayed retail jobs than I can recall.

Many years ago I acquired a B.A. in English literature with a minor in European history. If I had more years to spend (and maybe I do), I'd probably focus on linguistics and history now. Lots of history.

I'm fascinated by teaching, poetry, linguistics, history, crafts, veering humor, cats, etc.

JoinedDec 15, 2022
BIO PICTURE DESCRIPTIONPicture of the face of a white woman. She is wearing glasses and has short gray/white hair.
HEADER PICTURE DESCRIPTIONPicture of a red sign with white letters. The sign is on the edge of a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The sign says, "CAUTION: UNSTABLE CLIFFS Do not climb on, under, or through fences!"
Seems pretty likely that after the events of GLASS ONION everyone who was on that island tested positive for COVID because that mysterious spray was just horse dewormer.

#Poet Nanao Sakaki was born 100 years ago. As a teenager, he saw the plane that dropped the A-bomb on #Nagasaki on his radar screen and became a life-long peace activist.

A #Zen Buddhist, he befriended #BeatGeneration poets like Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg. I once took a pee with Nanao, Ginsberg, and Snyder under a full moon thinking of Lew Welch's line, "So it's all come to this."

His poem "Break the Mirror" is excellent advice regarding the ego for the new year.

[photo by Bill Barol]

No, Zardoz doesn't take place in 2023, but in 2293.

The memes are wrong. You don't have to dress like Sean Connery or share fake stuff from the very first day of the year. :D

Your moment of Zen, to end 2022.

And a great example of the grace and subtlety that typifies the Japanese relationship with nature.

A giant xylophone in Kyushu playing Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" with a wooden ball rolling down its keys

β™« We’re Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band β™«
Fireworks and champagne and fabulous noise welcomed the coming of the new year, but every moment of it was coordinated. The lights were just a distraction to keep us from noticing a few new stars appearing in the sky. But, she did notice. And now those stars were looking at her.
πŸ’¦πŸš—πŸŽΆ https://open.spotify.com/track/1y4OnSCtttqYNLA1602LYh?si=xOumfjDIQrCC0xOpg0-N9g I like the experience of the carwash, but imagine these photographs hung, grouped or tiled in a modern garage or bathroom, maybe? All ideas welcome 😊 #carwash #carwashphotography #photography #iphonephotography #renewal #cars #Spotify
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TOKiMONSTA Β· Song Β· 2017

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#AskMastodon I'm going through the steps for moving from one server to another. Can anyone tell me if the people I've followed will be moved too, or would I have to re-follow them? Many thanks!

AI-written essays? πŸ€– A range of (excellent) ideas on how to deal with chatGPT in the classroom:
https://tinyurl.com/59mwz75j

@academicchatter #teaching #chatgpt #AI

Update Your Course Syllabus for chatGPT - Ryan Watkins - Medium

Ready or not, chatGPT (the newest version of OpenAI’s impressive AI technologies) is now in your classroom. It can write papers, essays, and poems. It can create art and write computer code in many…

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"Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of their heart."

Rumi
#Quotes #EmotionalIntelligence