The dandelion — a yellow clock wound down,a pale globe drifting on the wind.Its seeds, small hushes with parachutes,spin off on invisible ropes. The bloom has emptied; gold loosened into air,a lace of stems in autumn’s thin light.Yet in that unbuttoning it plants insistence —a promise of soft landings, of green. We watch the white … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Blowing Away, v.2
Revisionist Poetry – Avian Essence, v.3. (a lyrical reimagining)
Dried pods cradle the late light,milkweed moons pinned to brittle twigs,paper lungs folded against the throatof a sky that holds its breath. Morning comes in a hush of wings —or perhaps it comes as patience breaking,a single seam unzipping: crack,the soft percussion of seed and silk. Then a small weather rises, a tremorof white, a … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Avian Essence, v.3. (a lyrical reimagining)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
By the fifth book Rowling performs a deliberate tonal swerve: Order of the Phoenix is not merely a continuation of the magical-adventure arc begun in Philosopher’s Stone but the moment when the series grows up, and asks of its readers something harder than puzzles and schoolboy heroics. Structurally the novel is a hinge — bulkier, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Avian Essence, v.2
Dried milkweed hangheavy on brittle branches,pods held like closed handsagainst a hush of sky. Then a seam gives — papery crack,a scatter: white skeins lift,not birds yet, but small weather,each seed a flake of wing. The twigs empty their maps;air fills with soft insistence.What looked like husk becomes migration,a sudden translation of the ordinary. Leave … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Avian Essence, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire performs a decisive tonal and structural shift in J.K. Rowling’s series: what began as a tightly localized tale of a magical boy on the margins of domestic unease becomes in Book Four an expansive ritual narrative that stages adolescence, institutional failure, and the return of political terror. It … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Autumn’s Fruit, v.4 (ekphrastic reworking for painters)
The frame holds a tipped crate,its lip offering up colour —ochre, rust, lichen-green —a spill arranged by gravity, not grace. Each gourd is rendered patiently:thick ribs catching light,warted skins stippled like dry brushpressed into stubborn canvas. Shadow pools beneath them,cool blues cupping warm bellies,edges softened where the eye rests too long,sharpened where a knife of … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Autumn’s Fruit, v.4 (ekphrastic reworking for painters)
Revisionist Pedagogy – Integrating Social and News Media Literacy in Pre-Collegial Visual Arts Education: A Comprehensive, Actionable Approach. (… A Comprehensive Approach, v.2)
Integrating social and news media literacy into pre-collegial visual arts education is not an optional add-on — it is a curricular priority. Visual culture now shapes how young people perceive events, form opinions, and participate civically. Arts classrooms are especially well-placed to teach students to read, produce, and ethically evaluate visual content. This essay proposes … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Integrating Social and News Media Literacy in Pre-Collegial Visual Arts Education: A Comprehensive, Actionable Approach. (… A Comprehensive Approach, v.2)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Rowling’s third instalment in the Harry Potter sequence marks a decisive tonal and structural shift: less the cosy wonder of schoolroom discovery and more a novel preoccupied with memory, justice, and the uncanny ways the past returns to shape the present. Prisoner of Azkaban is both a tighter mystery and a deeper moral exploration than … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Autumn’s Fruit, v.3
Crate overturned. Gourds tumble—humped, hollow, stubborn as small planets.Colors bruise—pumpkin, pewter, lime—skins pocked like weathered faces. Sun and rain carved them. Hands did not.They rattle when nudged, sound like loose teeth.Cold breath comes through the field; leaves scatter. I cup one: its skin is dry, warm where the day held it.No sermons. Just the taste … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Autumn’s Fruit, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
If the first volume of J.K. Rowling’s saga announced a wholly imagined magical world with the innocent exhilaration of discovery, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets registers the series’ movement from charm into consequence. Rowling’s sophomore effort tightens the mechanics of her imagination while deepening the book’s moral and formal ambitions: it is at … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
The New Renaissance Mindset 