I love my baby — I love her like a lamp left on,light thinning into the room when everything else goes quiet.But she don't light for me. We sit and watch the ceiling listen to the radio,its needle crawling small, the station a far country.Her mug cools, a moon of coffee left alone. We walk … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “I Love my Baby, My Baby Don’t Love Me… R. Johnson”, v.4 (blues lyrics)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Sacred Balance, 25th Anniversary Edition, by David Suzuki
David Suzuki’s The Sacred Balance returns in a thoughtful 25th-anniversary edition that reads less like a retread and more like a conversation re-opened across decades. This edition—issued by Greystone with a new foreword by Robin Wall Kimmerer and an afterword by Bill McKibben—pairs Suzuki’s lucid synthesis of ecology and ethics with two contemporary interlocutors whose … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Sacred Balance, 25th Anniversary Edition, by David Suzuki
Revisionist Poetry – “I Love my Baby, My Baby Don’t Love Me… R. Johnson”, v.3 (blues feel)
I love my baby — I love her like a lamp burns late,but she don't light for me. We sit and stare for hours; the radio plays low,her coffee cools in the saucer, untouched.We walk miles past houses with their porch lights on,her hand in mine — a cool, polite weight. She speaks of summers … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “I Love my Baby, My Baby Don’t Love Me… R. Johnson”, v.3 (blues feel)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 1984 by George Orwell
George Orwell’s 1984 is one of those rare novels that wears its bleakness with cold, analytical clarity: a work of moral and imaginative pressure that compresses historical anxieties into a single, terrible hypothesis about political life. First published in 1949, the novel reads like a thought experiment about power’s capacity to remake reality itself — … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – 1984 by George Orwell
Revisionist Poetry – “I Love my Baby, My Baby Don’t Love Me… R. Johnson”, v.2
We can sit and stare at each other for hoursand have nothing to say. We can walk, hand in hand, for miles,but she won't make love to me. We can tell each other of feelings of love —hers are lodged in the past;mine live in the present and the future. We can be together,and I … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “I Love my Baby, My Baby Don’t Love Me… R. Johnson”, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Animal Farm by George Orwell
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a short novel that functions as both a tight fable and a merciless piece of political argument. Compressed, crystalline, and spitefully comic, the book succeeds where many polemics fail: it turns abstract history into live, breathing characters and then performs a slow-motion moral sleight-of-hand so convincing you barely notice the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Animal Farm by George Orwell
Revisionist Poetry – Don’t Fall in Love, v.6
Rain. A lamppost. White canvas shoes, damp. Genesis — a thin, useless hymn in my ears. People pass like practiced ghosts. She says she cannot love me. I fold that sentence into my palm; it is cold. The street exhales and erases itself. I learn the end too late.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Servant Leadership by Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo
Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo’s Servant Leadership joins a growing conversation that stretches from Robert K. Greenleaf’s mid-twentieth-century formulation to contemporary debates about ethical authority, organizational stewardship, and leadership as moral formation. This compact volume is best read not as a polemic or a how-to manual but as a reflective and corrective intervention: it insists that leadership — … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Servant Leadership by Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo
Revisionist Poetry – Don’t Fall in Love, v.5
Rain performs its nightly dutysliding past the lamppostto christen my white canvas shoes—still white, technically. Genesis plays in my earphones,trying very hard to be important,vibrating with ancient promisesthat absolutely do not apply to me. People pass me by, professionally,on their efficient commutesto places they will later complain about. She says she still can’t love me—which … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Don’t Fall in Love, v.5
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ideals of the East: The Spirit of Japanese Art by Kakuzō Okakura
Kakuzō Okakura’s Ideals of the East is less a museum catalogue than an historical perspective of the Japanese personality: a compact, ardent defence of Japanese (and broadly East Asian) aesthetic sensibility written for an age when the West still presumed to be the arbiter of modern taste. The book reads simultaneously as cultural criticism, philosophical … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ideals of the East: The Spirit of Japanese Art by Kakuzō Okakura
The New Renaissance Mindset 