I knead until the room thins — the lamp a small moon,my breath and the wheel keeping secret time.Hands learn the clay’s grammar: press, fold, pull —a slow conversation that erases the name of the day. I am neither in nor out; I live in the seam,the narrow seam where thinking loosens its teeth.My fingers … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Becoming Liminal – Clay Experiments, v.4
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Secret Network of Nature by Peter Wohlleben
Wohlleben’s The Secret Network of Nature is at once a gardener’s field guide to wonder and a polemic about the fragile engineering that sustains life on Earth. The author, already known for his knack at turning ecological detail into intimate storytelling, invites readers to look beneath the familiar surfaces of forests, fields, and shorelines and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Secret Network of Nature by Peter Wohlleben
Revisionist Poetry – Clay Experiments, v.3
Under a single bulb the studio breathes —clay cool as river-mud, the smell of earth and salt.My fingers sink and pull and fold; the wheel answers,a low, slow song that keeps time with the heart. I coax a mouth from the belly of the lump,pull a shoulder, cup a hollow for rain.The clay sings back … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Clay Experiments, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Written by Shirley Jackson, this novel is less a sequence of jump-scares than a sustained experiment in atmosphere, point of view, and the politics of domestic fear. Jackson's masterpiece refuses the tidy mechanics of conventional Gothic; instead it anatomizes the uneasy overlap between mind, architecture, and social expectation. The result is a book that reads … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Revisionist Poetry – Clay Experiments, v.2
In the low light of the studiomy hands knead wet clay — slow, patient, greedy.I press, fold: a thumb makes a hollow,a palm smooths a shoulder into being. The clay remembers touch, remembers rhythm;it accepts and resists, yielding its weight.I carve a furrow, map a ridge, press a thumbprint —small geographies of whatever I am. … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Clay Experiments, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book-Play Review – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
Few contemporary literary phenomena invite as fierce and persistent a blend of affection and suspicion as the continuation of a beloved series. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is both an answer to that appetite and a provocation: not a conventional “next book” but a stage play whose text functions as a script, a dramatized … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book-Play Review – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Inventory of Maybe: Carver’s Kit, v.3
Dust falls like slow snow in my studio,landing on bristles, on the rim of a jar,on the carved lip of a cup that was never finished.Tools lie in driftwood piles: knives, ribs, wire,each one a fossil of a future I keep. I imagine soapstone singing under the blade,a thin, bright note—paper shavings at my feet—or … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Inventory of Maybe: Carver’s Kit, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore by J.K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling’s name on a spine still summons an array of readerly habits: eager return to a familiar lexicon of enchantments, a hunger for mythic scaffolding, and a readiness to re-enter a world where moral categories are usually luminous and legible. The published Complete Screenplay for The Secrets of Dumbledore, co-credited to screenwriter Steve … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Promises in the Dust: Carver’s Kit, v.2
In the dusty corner of my studioa mountain of tools keeps vigil —brushes crusted like dried-up combs,a stack of canvases breathing dust.Soapstone waits, cool as a riverbone;clay sits in its bowl, damp and patient. My chest lifts when I imagine the first cut,the knife opening a soft, secret grain,fingers shaping, pressing, answering.I collect these things … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Promises in the Dust: Carver’s Kit, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald by J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling’s The Crimes of Grindelwald is an odd chimera: part myth-making, part franchise machinery, and part apologue about power, identity, and the price of certainty. Read as a literary object rather than as a piece of cinematic tie-in, the screenplay invites a distinct kind of scrutiny — one that must account for its hybrid … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald by J.K. Rowling
The New Renaissance Mindset 