the blue collar professor
Here are a few things I’m sharing this month: 1. Question: “What activity gave you information beyond your years as a child?” – Martin Shaw (The Wild Twin) 2. Quote: “Sensing my difficulties, my father was blunt: if in the eyes of the world you aren’t embarrassed by your beliefs about the world then you + Read More The post The Wonder-Eye (vol. 7, no. 6) appeared first on shawn humphrey .
Here are a few things I’m sharing this month: 1. Question: “Where did we nourish and foster the creative imagination that permits you to bring into the world something that does not now exist?” – John Paul Lederach 2. Quote: “…the mandate to love the stranger is a double act of moral imagination. First, I + Read More The post The Edge of the Ocean (vol. 7, no. 6) appeared first on shawn humphrey .
Here are a few things I’m sharing this month: 1. Question: To wonder. To wonder the way a small childmight wonder when seeing a roly poly for the first time —oh, look at all those legs. Look at howit curls! Look how it moves again. Feelhow light it is in the palm. Feel howit tickles + Read More The post Proximity (vol. 7, no. 5) appeared first on shawn humphrey .
Here are a few things I’m sharing this month: 1. Question: 2. Quote: 3. Poem: Correction by A.R. Ammons The burdens of the worldon my backlighten the worldnot a whit whileremoving them greatlydecreases my specificgravity 4. Something Inspiring: Bullshit without Borders: Let’s Change the Way We Change the World by Susan Davis 5. Project updates: + Read More The post Closed Openness (vol. 7, no. 4)…
Here are a few things I’m sharing this month: 1. Question: Excerpt from “How Would You Live?” by Mary Oliver: What if you finally sawthat the sunflowers, turning toward the sun all day and every day – who knows how, but they do it – weremore precious, more meaningful than gold? 2. Quote: 3. Poem: Excerpt + Read More The post The Big Things (vol. 7, no. 3) appeared first on shawn humphrey .
Here are a few things I’m sharing this month: 1. Question: Excerpt from Jean Gebser’s Winter Poem: Who speaks of the future?Who countsin saying:“It shall be”?Look outwardand you see within:It is. 2. Quote: 3. Poem: A Walk by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Robert Bly): My eyes already touch the sunny hill,going far beyond the road + Read More The post Waving Us On (vol. 7, no. 2) appeared first…
Recently, while hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains and looking up from the trail to check my direction, I noticed a brush mark of blue paint on a tree just ahead of me. It assured me, This is the way. As I continued my hike, with brush marks of blue encouraging me along the way, I + Read More The post The Blue Mark Paradox of Education appeared first on shawn humphrey .
Here are a few things I’m sharing this month: 1. Question: 2. Quote: 3. Poem: Excerpt from Just Lying in the Grass at Blackwater by Mary Oliver: I lie down in the fields of goldenrod, and everlasting.Who could find me?My thoughts simplify. I have not done a thousand thingsor a hundred things but, perhaps, a + Read More The post On Seeds and Seeing (vol. 7, no. 1) appeared first on shawn humphrey .
Here are a few things I’m sharing this month: 1. Question: 2. Quote: 3. Poem: Mimesis by Fady Joudah: My daughter wouldn’t hurt a spiderThat had nestedBetween her bicycle handlesFor two weeksShe waitedUntil it left of its own accord If you tear down the + Read More The post Responding (vol. 6, no. 12) appeared first on shawn humphrey .
“They’re in the chesterdrawers” I said. “What?” Kyra asked. “They’re in the chesterdrawers” I said. “What in the world are chesterdrawers?” Kyra asked. I walked down the hall and into my childhood room and pointed. “That” I said. She started laughing. “What?” I asked. “That is a chest…of…drawers” she said. I was well into college + Read More The post Appalachian? appeared first on shawn humphrey .