Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends is one of those rare books that seems to belong equally to childhood and to literary criticism. On the surface, it is a mischievous, whimsical collection of poems for young readers, full of absurd inventions, talking creatures, impossible requests, and comic punishments. Yet beneath its playful exterior lies a … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
“Crown Crashers — when the kingdom goes viral” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z
(T.A.E.’s LitBites) – A modern retelling of Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare Okay, picture this: a kingdom that used to be the main character in everyone’s group chat has turned into a chaotic group DM where nobody can agree on anything. The king — Henry — is exhausted, spaced out, and honestly kind of … Continue reading “Crown Crashers — when the kingdom goes viral” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z
Revisionist Poetry – “The Small Guardian” – Bargain Store Gargoyle, v.2
Why are we drawn to gargoyles,those stone monstersperched on cathedrals and towers,leaning over usas if listening? Their warped mouths,their fierce and weathered faces,hold our gaze.We imagine the livesthey have witnessed,the old weather they have endured,the silence they keep. Then, in a bargain store’s dusty corner,I find one reduced to hand size:an ersatz concrete gargoyle,a shabby … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Small Guardian” – Bargain Store Gargoyle, v.2
T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – The Ultimate Basket Book: A Cornucopia of Popular Designs to Make by Lyn Siler
The Ultimate Basket Book: A Cornucopia of Popular Designs to Make (2006) presents itself as an expansive, practical craft volume: it combines The Basket Book and Handmade Baskets, adds ten extra projects, and includes new colour photography. The edition is listed as a 192-page book published by Lark Books in New York, and the available … Continue reading T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – The Ultimate Basket Book: A Cornucopia of Popular Designs to Make by Lyn Siler
Revisionist Poetry – “The Day the Stones Learned to Balance” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.6 (A cosmic daydream conversation…)
Note: I reworked this one while reading Italo Calvino's masterpiece, "The Complete Cosmicomics". I got inspired to write an absurdist conversation between the builder/narrator and... well, everything else in the poem... At first, the river had no opinion about stones.It simply carried them, as it carried everything else,with the distant manner of a clerkwho has … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Day the Stones Learned to Balance” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.6 (A cosmic daydream conversation…)
T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is not merely a history of Nazi Germany; it is an act of historical witnessing written with the urgency of a moral reckoning. First published in 1960, the book has the scale and propulsion of an epic, but its true power lies elsewhere: The … Continue reading T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Revisionist Poetry – ““The River’s Little Undertaking” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.5 (A bit of gothic daydreaming)
Along the riverbank I wander,collecting stones for my doomed little architecture,as though the universe had not already made clearits opinion of permanence. I choose my rocks like an undertaker chooses florals:with care, with dread, with faint embarrassment.This one is a knuckle.That one looks like a tooth.Another has the cold authority of a gravestoneand the personality … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – ““The River’s Little Undertaking” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.5 (A bit of gothic daydreaming)
Revisionist Pedagogy – Advancing Educational Equity: The Case for Universal Design for Learning in Curricula
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an instructional framework designed to make education more accessible, equitable, and effective for a wide range of learners. Rooted in the recognition that variability is a normal feature of human learning, UDL moves away from the traditional assumption that one method of teaching can meet the needs of all … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Advancing Educational Equity: The Case for Universal Design for Learning in Curricula
T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – Zen Prayers for Repairing Your Life by Tai Sheridan
Tai Sheridan’s Zen Prayers for Repairing Your Life is a compact spiritual text—112 pages in its Kindle edition, first published in 2012—that belongs to the tradition of aphoristic devotional writing, yet it aims less at doctrine than at psychic and ethical recalibration. Goodreads describes it as a work that addresses “what is unsettled within you” … Continue reading T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – Zen Prayers for Repairing Your Life by Tai Sheridan
Revisionist Poetry – “Temporary Geometry” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.4
By the river, I stack stonesbecause nothing here stays putand I want to make somethingthat knows that. The water moves.The sun warms my neck.My hands learn the shape of each rockbefore I place it where it might hold. A tower rises.It wobbles.It survives. That is enough for me:this small, unstable proofthat beauty can liveinside collapse.
The New Renaissance Mindset 