Kindling rises.Sadness eats the bright.Wood → coal → ash. Expectations burn—joy becomes a black scrap. Flames learn the wind;memories linger like dust. Out of sight, they go;not out of me.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Masters: Earthenware: Major Works by Leading Artists, Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra
Masters: Earthenware arrives not as a dry handbook but as a museum catalogue written in the idiom of the studio. Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra, the volume assembles compact, richly illustrated mini-retrospectives that together argue for earthenware as a lively, experimental, and emotionally capacious medium rather than a mere step on … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Masters: Earthenware: Major Works by Leading Artists, Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra
Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.2
The flames rise and begin to danceon fresh kindling—thin, obedient tongues. Sadness eats the space happiness left;thoughts hold the matches. From wood to coal, from coal to ash—the slow machinery of the night. Expectations burn like paper money,joy folded and scorched into denial. Flames leap into open air, drink the wind;they take the smell of … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.2
Revisionist Poetry – “I Love my Baby, My Baby Don’t Love Me… R. Johnson”, v.4 (blues lyrics)
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 New Renaissance Mindset 