August 24, 2010
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The Daily News
1 This is the second DN written from the oasis that is my backyard garden.
2 It's a fool moon, and I'm barefootin'.
3 Dude, say whatcha will, but it's still SUMMERTIME in my frabous eyes!
4 A few crickets chirp as I unroll this folderol. MUCH better than 13 million crickets, so it's unassumably poetic.
5 Ah, ya gotta love summer!
6 Even the tale end of it.
7 I just now washed my feet with a garden hose.
8 The crickets are goin' and so am I!
9 Moving on, Part the First: My daughter, Nicole, aka Miss Harrington, finished her first day as a teacher today.
10 Already she has idjits trying to give her "advice".
11 Hello.
12 I'm sure they want to tote the modern line and force her into doing things that simply don't work. I have listened to her philosophies on teaching, and really?
13 My daughter is spot on.
14 It always has killed me in education when people who have NO idea of what passion and professionalism means start walking into YOUR methods and give advice, much of which is mediocre at best.
15 Teachers who KNOW how to teach should be left alone to their own brilliance, at least that's my philosophy.
16 The current trend is to dummy down lessons, and do the bidding of mediocre people who haven't been in a real classroom since they realized they couldn't teach a squirrel how to store his nuts.
17 Fortunately, she totally gets it, and the toughest thing she faces right now is how to tell the unfortunate goombahs that teaching is an art.
18 Her methods are so much better than anything I've seen in this strange time in our nation's education.
19 She has the absolute theory that passion and caring about students is more important than all that other folderol.
20 If I were a parent, I would kiss the very ground she walks on.
21 Hey, wait a minute!
22 Dude.
23 I didn't mean that literally.
24 Health nuts.
25 Yeesh.
26 Anywho, Nicoley GETS it.
27 So I just wanna say, Miss Harrington is going to be one of the best teachers who ever crawled into this crazy bizniss.
28 Coley, just roll dude.
29 Ah, wonderfulness!
30 Moving on, Part the Second: Welp I'm still outside in the garden, listening to a lone cricket singing along with the fountain.
31 It is just a gorgeous night, and writing to the light of a flashlight means that summer is still in full swing.
32 This week started a bit shaky, because I messed up a coupla lessons due to senility, but I quickly recovered, and now feel that it is STILL the best opening I've ever had. I was a tad shaky yesterday morning, but that's because we watched bubble tests on Friday. So it was sort of like coming back from a three-day. Still, as I said, this has been the best opening I've EVER had. That's saying a lot.
33 Strong stuff.
34 Nothing really amazing in the past coupla days, but I still feel that I can't wait to get in there and do it today.
35 Little late, and even the crickets are beginning to slow down, so I think I'll just call it a night.
36 Yawn.
37 So thanks for listening.
38 I'm cuttin' out early here, 'cuz I'm just pretty exhausted from well, everything.
39 Tell someone you love that you love them, and hold fast to your dreams.
40 Walk barefoot. Enjoy a popsickle, and sip some lemonade. It's still summertime!!! Look up at some point, and smile today.
40 Peaceout, homies!
41 Live life.
42 Love life.
43 Peace.
~H~
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