full moon tomorrow
adam’s complaint some people, no matter what you give them, still want the moon. the bread, the salt, white meat and dark, still hungry. the marriage bed and the cradle, still empty arms. you give them land, their own earth under their feet, still they take to the roads. and water: dig them the deepest [...]
up & out
there has been so much swirling around in my little world lately that i feel almost like a passenger in my own life — tentatively waiting for whatever’s coming next. at least that’s how it seems. the real truth is that in every moment, i’m fighting to stay above the water, to anticipate the next [...]
thousand word thursday | earth day edition
this is a photograph of planet earth taken in 1990 by voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. by request of carl sagan, NASA commanded the voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the solar system, to turn its camera around and to take a [...]
i touch the future. i teach.
twenty-four years ago today, i was sitting in mr. quincy’s fifth grade class. on a media cart at the front of the classroom was a television broadcasting the launch of the space shuttle challenger, carrying it’s crew of seven. amongst them was christa mcauliffe, who was to be the first teacher in space. in an [...]
thirty | year two
the moon has always been a source of endless fascination for me. i remember, as a child, looking up at the night sky — filled with its fabric of twinkling stars and its grand lighted orb — and knowing, with certainty, that i was looking at something larger than i would ever understand. it was [...]
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