Participating in this week's Share Your World from Sparks from a Combustible Mind. What is knowledge? What a question for a retired college professor! I once told a student who wondered why I got paid but he had to do the work (yeah, weird, right?) that the product he was buying from me was knowledge,... Continue Reading →
One Liner Wednesday: Inspiration
The beauty of the love of continued learning and expanded knowledge is that it allows us to reach our God-given potential in ways far beyond our own beliefs and the expectations of others. Written for the One Liner Wednesday, January 6, 2021 from Linda G. Hill.
Teaching Reading is a Lifelong Gift: First Line Friday
From Mindlovemisery's Menagerie Untouched books crowded his shelves, shiny leather spines and faded first editions, meticulously dusted and never read. Brian always sighed when he thought of all of the knowledge denied to him because he was illiterate. He was successful, so people assumed that he could read, but because of the immense shame he... Continue Reading →
What Happened to Learning for the Sweetness of Knowing?
It's difficult to remain stoic as Intelligence ceases to be sought. Sad to see book leaves go unturned, And find that no one wants to be taught. I've a cacoethes to give knowledge, A quality education is what I bring. But it's tiresome to have to prod Someone to want to learn many things. They... Continue Reading →
Tuesday Use It In a Sentence: Pours
The professor pours knowledge into the minds of her students, in hopes that it will fall deep enough in their hearts for them to be the change the world needs.
Like 40 days in the desert.
It was the weirdest hitchhiking trip ever. Was I on the right path? When I entered the Central Valley, I got another ride, but when my exit came, he got out of the car also, as I retrieved my backpack. “May I smell your feet?” “No” “Would you kick me?” “No” “Can we have sex?”... Continue Reading →