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after my constitution the only wrong what is against it the last sentence sent chills down my arms when i read it i have no issue whatsoever with the potential fallibility of the church and its interpretations of the scriptures upon which it claims to base its doctrines nor do i think that living from within is wrong to the contrary we must live from within or we can hardly be said to be living no what i cannot believe in the least is that good and bad are defined only by what lies within our own natures in the six years that i ve been teaching high school i ve seen one student threaten loudly and violently to kill another based on his sexual orientation two students lost their grandfather to a neighbor who decided to kill him and hide his body in a shallow grave in the woods over a property line dispute several students have been hospitalized for self harm or suicide attempts and been mocked or harassed for it i could go on maybe emerson would say that actions like these are born of not listening to our true natures actions caused by either the stress that builds in us from denying the truths we recognize deep in our hearts but are afraid to grasp tightly enough to stand up against the pressures of a world that wishes us to conform or caused by our utterly believing some untruth we ve been fed all our lives by not searching and finding those truths that are naturally and individually ours i believe that many such actions are exactly that but surely ending a life over a few acres that one can only possess for a limited time is wrong even if the person wielding the weapon believed completely that it was the right thing to do my disagreeing with emerson on the question of right and wrong has clouded that original starry eyed love i felt for him when i was twenty but in a way it also gives me reason to love him more to love him for his idealism his ability to believe that people were so truly good that if they would only listen to their natural selves they would never do great wrongs in the world the second love feels more authentic anyway based as it is on what he was on his being faithful and thorough in pursuing and sharing his own deeply held beliefs such as believing that the nature of man was good rather than the viability of his beliefs in the real world surely emerson would approve note for something entirely different pop over to alon for a blog entry on what happens when i get wound up about emerson and start talking with the younger daughter she s quirky and she has some insight emerson ralph waldo self reliance the heath anthology of american literature 7 th ed ed paul lauter vol b boston wadsworth 2014 1871 print posted by lucindyl at 3 47 am no comments tags literature reflection sunday february 27 2011 the job shadowing incident friday great scott the husband took the younger daughter to school with him for her job shadowing assignment when his first class walked in and inquired about the new kid he told them she s the new student from juvenile hall she has to sit next to me because she has a history of stabbing people with scissors the believed him completely the younger daughter was thrilled posted by lucindyl at 2 59 am 3 comments tags cheek children family killing the writer teaching is not conducive to writing i have come to this conclusion after three years of in depth research research that was entirely unnecessary but which having been completed bestows on me the authority to say that teaching is most definitely not conducive to writing a good friend of mine reminded me of this fact last week when he wrote concerning a recent decision i ve made what do you need an mfa for you want to teach cyril conelly once said that teaching had killed more writers than alcohol had no small feat alcohol having never really been my thing i suppose that leaves me with death by teaching an option that i find entirely plausible though not preferable i m not quite ready for the writer in me to head to that great used book store in the sky i m not done with her yet that s why i ve applied to an mfa program part of me says that this scheme is entirely laughable after all i m forty three and have been out of school for nineteen years i m working a full time job that requires more than full time hours and in one more year the older daughter will be filling out her own college applications nevertheless there are reasons to try as well i have to have a certain number of professional development hours each year to maintain my teaching certification hours which might as well count toward a degree an mfa will allow me to teach per course or eventually even full time at the college level should i ever change my mind about teaching high school and i feel rusty and definitely lack discipline in my writing habits so the challenge and accountability of a graduate program will be good ever since i have known there was such a thing the mfa has been the degree i ve wanted badly enough to be afraid of even if it might kill me the application has been dispatched now i wait we ll see what kills me first posted by lucindyl at 12 50 am 2 comments tags teaching undertakings writing tuesday october 12 2010 quote of the day on learning the only thing that interferes with my learning is my education thomas edison posted by lucindyl at 3 15 pm 1 comment tags friday quote teaching wednesday july 14 2010 procrastination aid writing style analyzer i m having a lot of fun playing with this particular procrastination aid all of the following were results for various samples of the blog writing right here on quotidian light i write like vladimir nabokov i write like by mémoires mac journal software analyze your writing i write like stephen king i write like by mémoires mac journal software analyze your writing i write like james joyce i write like by mémoires mac journal software analyze your writing i write like h p lovecraft i write like by mémoires mac journal software analyze your writing i write like george orwell i write like by mémoires mac journal software analyze your writing i write like douglas adams i write like by mémoires mac journal software analyze your writing i write like j k rowling i write like by mémoires mac journal software analyze your writing i write like margaret mitchell i write like by mémoires mac journal software analyze your writing i write like edgar allan poe i write like by mémoires mac journal software analyze your writing i write like arthur c clarke i write like by mémoires mac journal software analyze your writing just for giggles here s the last one i m posting tonight although tomorrow i ll probably try running some of my poetry through first let me post the text i entered once upon a time there was a little bunny rabbit who ran out in the road and got squashed the end once upon a time there lived a tiny flea and when time fell back because of daylight savings time the flea fell into the void the end now the result i write like margaret atwood i write like by mémoires mac journal software analyze your writing posted by lucindyl at 10 50 pm 5 comments tags procrastination aids writing monday june 28 2010 writer s meme call it inspiration call it guilt but the end result is the same i ve not been writing much of late so when i read this meme at stick poet super hero i knew right away i d have to try it 1 what s the last thing you wrote a comment on my husband s facebook status 2 is it any good of course 3 what s the first thing you ever wrote that you still have written down a long poem chronicling how my siblings and cousins and i were sent to my grandparents basement every year at christmas while our parents had a business meeting upstairs with all the food there are a couple of earlier pieces that i still have memorized however poems of a sort and my mother has numerous bits of things i scribbled in school 4 favorite genre of writing poetry or creative nonfiction i do more of the former but have been told i m better at the latter both scare me 5 how often do you get writer s block i live in writer s block 6 how do you fix it i don t i withdraw from it and from writing more often than not 7 do you save everything you write i save most of it yes since college i did burn 6 years worth of journals the first 6 years i kept them since then i have almost everything and my desk looks like it too 8 how do you feel about revision absolutely 100 necessary i don t trust writers who say they don t revise rather i trust that their writing is probably horrible i ve heard too many people get up in church to read their straight from the lord poems to not cringe when someone tells me they never revise 9 what s your favorite thing that you ve written probably the poems night augur or a second birthing or one i m still revising winter seduction possibly an essay parody of walden if you want to talk prose 10 what s everyone else s favorite thing that you ve written this seems to be mania oddly enough 11 what writing projects are you working on right now theoretically lesson plans ho i ve got snippets from a fiction piece inspired by my brother that i ve been adding to for a few years there s a cnf essay that i would really like to see where it goes and winter seduction which i m about ready to give in and start sending off my journal would probably fall under this category too since it s a perpetual project of sorts 12 what s one genre you have never written and probably never will i would be quick to say horror save that one of my poems was actually nominated for inclusion in a year s best horror anthology awhile back to my surprise and that great scott tells me he finds many of my poems pretty horrifying romance is probably the genre i would be least likely to write as well as being the genre i m least likely to read i don t think i would be any good at writing science fiction either although i m a sci fi fan down with the alliance browncoats forever posted by lucindyl at 12 23 am 5 comments tags meme writing friday may 28 2010 what i deserve conversation setting home after a very rough day hugging the daughters gratefully me you are the best daughters in the whole world i have done nothing in my life to deserve such great girls the older daughter we know that s why god made you a teacher posted by lucindyl at 12 33 am 2 comments tags children family gratitude overheard teaching thursday may 27 2010 closing out year two school is out for the summer scores for the state end of course eoc exams are in and my grades are finalized and posted i have turned in tutoring logs professional development hours and inventory my room has been straightened and labeled and locked it has been a year when i checked out today my principle told me that she was very glad i had stayed had come back a second year it was a small thing to have said but it meant a great deal to me the first year was rough now that i look back on it staying until midnight wasn t uncommon staying until 3 a m happened more than once it was the first year of our state s eoc exams i had to prep for 5 different classes a day 7 different classes for the year all told i had 50 extra hours of emints training to complete and i was sponsoring or helping to sponsor 3 different extracurricular groups plus the freshman class being hired two weeks before school began with only that much warning and being totally unfamiliar with the curricular materials was another factor although this one was helped since i was also assigned to be on the team to write our school s curriculum right away as well one of my fellow communication arts teachers who is one of my own former teachers told me last year i don t know how you re doing it anybody else would have quit at semester i had forgotten all this much in the same way that the details of childbirth are often smudged in a mother s mind i suspect so when my principle told me today that she was glad i had come back i stared at her blankly for a moment why in the world wouldn t i have come back i wondered human beings are remarkable we often have no idea of what we can accomplish until we have done more than we ever imagined we could i despise being pushed more than i could possibly convey to you without physical violence and perhaps regurgitation in fact i will not be pushed by anyone but myself this summer i hope to write a lot of lesson plans down and create some new ones this last year i had 80 students all told next year i will have a little over 100 next year i will push hard again but for now i m going to sit for a bit and reflect on the two years behind me posted by lucindyl at 11 54 pm 4 comments tags gratitude idiocy reflection teaching undertakings friday april 02 2010 friday quote on meaning and escape for the true writer there is some distance some remove that allows for the shaping of the work every reader can sense the difference between a writer who embodies meaning through the events he describes and the writer who seems simply mired in those events it is that struggle for meaning that lets the writer escape the tyranny of what really happened sue miller posted by lucindyl at 10 49 am 6 comments tags friday quote writing thursday april 01 2010 thirteen things i need to remember when my students drive me crazy 1 some of my students didn t sleep last night 2 some of them haven t eaten anything since yesterday s school lunch 3 some of them are trying to find the right balance of anti depressants and or anti psychotic meds 4 some of them are seniors and are beginning to feel a bit crazy about getting to leave school and having to leave school and they can t decide whether they love or hate these things 5 being cooped up in a computer lab when it s 80 degrees and sunny outside isn t anyone s idea of fun 6 some of these kids know a whole lot more about livestock and motors than i could ever dream of knowing 7 some of them are taking care of mentally ill parents at home and may not get to class on time because they had to wait for the ambulance again 8 some of them are so smart that they re bored out of their minds and coming up with trouble to keep themselves entertained 9 some of them look scroungy because they had to get younger brothers and sisters ready for school this morning and they put little sister s hair in ponytails instead of brushing their own before catching the bus 10 some of them laugh and joke because they re afraid of anyone figuring out that they care very much that they re failing and they re covering up 11 not all of them have to like me or like my class 12 i can love them anyway 13 crazy isn t such a bad state of mind if you re in far enough posted by lucindyl at 9 34 am 4 comments tags reflection teaching thursday thirteen napowrimo 2010 begins i have a horrible track record when it comes to any kind of regular writing and teaching school the past two years has only exacerbated the situation nevertheless better to try than not to try at least that s the line i feed my students i don t have time for revision...