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Friday, October 23, 2009

by Nanette

Over the past couple of years I’ve spent quite a lot of time offline, with little or no access to the internet due to one thing or another, so - having got rid of cable ages ago because I just don’t watch much TV - for the first time in 11 or so years I’ve been getting most of my news and information from network TV. I am having trouble describing what that is like for me, but sitting at the bottom of a dark well listening to echoes of the same things over and over again comes close. Definitely no information overload, whether I am watching the local or national news or even reading the local paper.

The same people reading/writing the same news (from slightly different perspectives each time, if we’re lucky) about the same events with the only real diversion from what appear to be scripts shared across networks coming in whatever little “slice of life” feature they choose to highlight.

If that’s all there is, my friend, then let’s keep dancing indeed. No wonder so many of us are so ignorant of so many things.

Thank the gods (and Al Gore) for the Internet.

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

I Can Breathe Today. And Even Better Tomorrow

by Nanette

Mostly. And my head is not swimming nearly as much, so I think I’m on the road to recovery. Yay!

I’ve realized, lately, how much I look forward to Sundays. I am not religious in the least but I’m glad others are, or at least that the day is pretty much a declared a non-business type day.

If the phone rings it’s likely a family member or friend instead of a telemarketer, a bill collector or a politician.

If someone is at the door, again most likely a friend or relative (or religious person who, when I just politely decline, will leave with a smile and go on to their next target) and not someone coming to fix something or to sell me something (except maybe tamales!) or whatever.

My daughter, love her though I do, *knows* not to show up at my door with her children, seeking a babysitter, on Sunday.

So, besides having to do for my mom - which is every day, or guilting myself into writing or doing all the cleaning I didn’t get to during the week… Sunday really is my day of rest.

Mental rest, more than any other and really, for an introvert, that is sometimes more important and refreshing.

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Writing About The News of the Day

by Nanette

I don’t. Write about the news of the day. Usually.

I’m not sure why - I think partially because most people who want to know the news of the day or about a particular region or event they are interested in can find it, on the actual news sites, just as easily as I can. Commenting on some of what is considered the major news seems equally pointless to me. Or, perhaps, for me to do, as I probably know as little or less about, say, the economy, than the average person. Bank bailouts, toxic mortgages, deficits? Out of my realm. All I could do would be to point people to the story, which, again, they could find for themselves if they wished.

This is one reason that I am a Bad Blogger. I simply can’t imagine that anyone cares what I think on topics that I know nothing about. Even the various hardships that people are going through, because of the economy, I don’t write about much. It’s not that I am not sympathetic to people’s plights - I am. It’s just that, for some of us living small, living frugal, living within our means, trying not to tip over into an abyss is not some shock therapy type reaction to dwindling portfolios or something - it’s a way of life. Rediscovering a “cash economy”? I years ago decided that living on credit was a trap I just didn’t want to fall into (again) and, yes, I put up with the pitying looks one gets when it’s revealed that, OMG you have no credit cards! At least now there will be more of a crowd of us “buy only what you can afford today” types. Although I do wish more stores would actually bring back Layway, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards.

Anyway, there’s lots of other stuff to write about, so the above is no excuse (for me) not to find maybe underreported stories to highlight or to point to, or to just chatter away about stuff. So, will try to do that more as the days go on.

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Saturday, January 03, 2009

Manatees Have Spines Of Steel

by Nanette

I remember somewhere around this time last year that I declared 2008 the Year of the Manatee! I never did get around to explaining what that was all about but it turns out that is a good thing because I was wrong, wrong, wrong!

Not about it being the Year of the Manatee, but about what that meant. See, while I remembered and loved the secret Manatee Lisa smiles some of them wear - their gentleness and lumbering grace…

I didn’t want to focus, as I was inclined to, on the scars that so many wear across their backs as a testament of not only an uncaring and, sometimes, unaware adversary but also of a resilience and a capacity to survive, secret smiles intact.

That is usually the more interesting story, though, no?

Anyway, 2008 is finally over - and not a moment too soon - and while I still love manatees I do hope this new year will be free of them.

I have a lot planned, including a re-focusing of the site (of course!) and other stuff, which I will be writing about as I can. My life is still not quite my own, but now that things have calmed down at least a bit it’s obvious that I’m not likely to get the life I want, at this moment, so will just have to make do with the one I have, and work through whatever obstacles as well as I can.

This means that my grammar and punctuation will be even worse that usual as I will have to take the time to write when I can, and will worry about it being proper some other day, when I have more time. I have so much I really should be writing about - I still have to write a letter to PE Obama - who actually won the election, amazing as that is - , as I sit writing the heartbreaking news comes in that Israel has invaded Gaza with ground troops, so there is that, and also lots of navel gazing to come, as I try and make sense, or at least lemonade, of the past year. And continue moving and looking forward into this next one.

What’s everyone else up to?

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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Morning (or so) Papers - Toe In The Water

by Nanette

I’m testing a new blog writer thing - Post2Blog - a desktop blogging client for Windows. I’m still learning how it works and if I like it. It added the "a desktop blogging client for Windows" and the link all by itself, which was a ’lil irritating, but I was able to disable it. Anyway, I was using Windows LiveWriter, which I really like, but with my computer having so many issues with, apparently, SP2 (I’ve had to reinstall the operating system 4 or 5 times in the past week or so) - which is needed, along with .NET in order to run LiveWriter, I think I’ll just go ahead and go with something more low-tech.

So that this is not a completely navel gazing post I’ll add some links to some stuff in the news and/or on blogs.

China’s been having a rough (and often tragic) time this year… and now this:

BEIJING—First there was the freak snowstorm in February. Then the Tibetan riots in March. Then in rapid succession the controversial torch relay, Sichuan earthquake, widespread flooding and an algae bloom that’s tarnishing the Olympic sailing venue. Just when it seemed that nothing else could go wrong this year in China, the locusts arrived.

Locusts? What is going on here? The litany of near-biblical woes would seem to lack only a famine, frogs and smiting of the first born.

I sometimes joke(?) about the plagues of disasters that seem to hit us in California whenever we have a Republican governor… as if the very earth is trying to tell us something, but I think we’ve yet to have this one. via.

The Internets are still wacky with primary fallout - I just thought I’d mention that. I won’t put any links mainly because I am too rushed (and lazy) to look them up right now, but I do plan on doing some sort of piece about all this, soonish.

Apparently someone has decided that contractors in Iraq should not be able to operate outside the law after all… (yeah, right - where’s the loophole?)

The US has agreed to scrap immunity for foreign security guards in Iraq, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says.

The US embassy in Baghdad has not confirmed the announcement, which comes as the US and Iraq are negotiating a controversial security pact.

Foreign firms employing thousands of guards won huge contracts in Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion, but were not subject to Iraqi or US military law.

Iraqi frustration became fury last year when guards killed 17 people in a day.

[...]

The firm involved in the 2007 killings - Blackwater, one of the biggest security contractors in Iraq and which protects US diplomats - says its guards were acting in self-defence.

These are the same people (Blackwater) who are doing something or other on the US border, no? Comforting.

And now for something completely different…

I can just imagine multiples of this guy adorning the table at a party at Doc Logan’s house.

Here’s a couple more:

No matter how much time I might have on my hands I couldn’t create this stuff. Very cool.

Anyone been up to anything? Y’all have a great day.

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Not So Newsy News

by Nanette

Just a smattering of things, of (mostly) no particular importance, that have caught my eye.

The abyss, it appears, will commence gazing back at kos:

New York—Markos Moulitsas, the founder and publisher of dailykos.com, will become a Newsweek contributor for the 2008 presidential campaign, offering occasional opinion pieces to the pages of the magazine and to Newsweek.com.
Yeah, there’s a lot of heads exploding in wingnutlandia today over this bit of news. But Newsweek is “balancing” me out with someone that should make heads on our side explode. Announcement on that name is still a couple of days off.

Karl Rove Hired As Newsweek Contributor To ‘Balance’ Markos

Earlier this week, Newsweek announced that it is hiring DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas as a contributor for the 2008 presidential campaign, offering occasional opinion pieces. Markos said, “Newsweek is ‘balancing’ me out with someone that should make heads on our side explode.”Now we know who. Newsweek has announced it is hiring Karl Rove to become a Newsweek contributor.

And snorts of laughter were heard throughout the land.

Apparently there was yet another Democratic debate last night.

The morning news shows were gushing over Clinton’s “comeback” from her little blip last week. Doesn’t take much to get them excited, eh?

Not that I think any of the crowd of candidates is much good, but it sometimes amazes me how many people who consider themselves “liberal” or leftish, and anti-war, are planning on voting for her. She is by far the most hawkish candidate, practically promising a “new war” and not, that I can tell, promising to end the current occupation.

Not all that surprising, I guess. “The American Public” is not, even with the polls showing disaffection for the Iraq Debacle, opposed to wars, especially ones from which they will reap a benefit. They are opposed to badly run wars and occupations, is all. We like good wars, and we’ve not had one since WWII. And from that point of view, unless you are a defense contractor or a private security firm, or one of the many others that have had billions of dollars tossed at them, the Iraq Occupation has not been a good war.

Plus, some are still mad at the bungling of the good war we could have had in Afghanistan had we not been distracted from bombing Afghan civilians (not that we’ve stopped that, mind you) - turning our attention to killing Iraqis instead.

Whoops! I forgot to talk about the debate. I think Stephen Colbert won.

Mannequins, wetsuits (two!), liver… bicycles?

There’s no accounting for folk.

A man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation.

Robert Stewart, 51, admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex. [...]Mr Stewart was caught in the act with his bicycle by cleaners in his bedroom at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr.

Gail Davidson, prosecuting, told Ayr Sheriff Court: “They knocked on the door several times and there was no reply.

“They used a master key to unlock the door and they then observed the accused wearing only a white t-shirt, naked from the waist down.“The accused was holding the bike and moving his hips back and forth as if to simulate sex.”

Both cleaners, who were “extremely shocked”, told the hostel manager who called police.

Mind you, if he was in his own bedroom, I am not sure why they have a case in the first place? I doubt the bicycle was hurt.

Wicked cold virus making the rounds.

Wash your hands!

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI)—The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said 10 people have been killed by a potent new form of the common cold virus.The virus, adenovirus serotype 14, has sickened more than 360 people in Texas, Oregon, Washington and New York, including at least 53 who have been hospitalized since May 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.One U.S. soldier was killed by the strain and 106 others infected at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.

Whatever it is, even strong and healthy adults seem to have no immunity to it.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

This and That and The Other Thing

by Nanette

I don’t really have much to say, so I’m going to say it in little bits.

I’m really happy Doc Logan is blogging with me here… not only does he find great stuff to blog about, but if it weren’t for him the blog would have been empty this week! It’s sad, but true… sometimes I go into “silent mode” and have to kickstart myself out of it. Chattering aimlessly often works… so here goes :)

The fires! Oy… Southern California was expected to drop off into the ocean, not burn to a crisp. Thoughts for all those who’ve lost their homes and who had to evacuate. Modem is fine, for all those who know her - the fires are not right where she is.

I have a theory about the ground we stand on, CA disasters and Republican governors but I’ll wait till everything is over before putting it forth again.

[added]Oh, and I forgot - watching one of the news shows last night I noticed how much fun they had talking about the Witch fire. Lowered, ominous voice every time he said… “the Witch... fire”. Or, jumping right in to the California habit of instant familiarity, he’d drop the “fire” and just say… “the Witch”. By the end of the segment I was rolling my eyes and hoping someone would put a hex on him.

Of course the comparisons are being made between the treatment evacuees in Qualcomm Stadium and the “refugees” in the Super Dome ...both in fact, with the supplies - massage booths!? - the government response, and how the media reports. I can pretty much guarantee you that almost every Black person who watched how the Katrina folks - grandmas, teachers, babies, moms and dads, business owners, teens, regular screwups and some criminal minded - were immediately turned from victims into savages, thugs, the “underbelly” and all that other garbage, knew how easily it could have been them. No matter how much money they had, or how classy their homes, or what they’d achieved in life - it’s appallingly easy to become a ‘thug’ just by ... existing while Black or Brown.

From time to time I think of things I’d like to write about, so I’ll make notes and save them with a tentative title or something, so that I’ll remember what I wanted to say. I have a bunch of things started, which I may finish. Eventually. Apparently, though, I also sometimes just save just the title, like this one I found this morning:

“Connections; Or, Why You Should Always Rinse Your Beans. Well.”

I wonder what THAT was about? I’m sure I had some sort of really cool connections to make (I really doubt I was going to spend much time talking about actual beans - whatever for?), but I have no idea where I was going with that. Maybe one day I’ll remember.

I am planning to start a revolution. No pitchforks needed! This one will involve fingertips and spoons. And mushy stuff. You are all invited. I hope lots of people join it. More soon.

I’ve been looking into the past, my family’s history and stuff, lately. Maybe it’s cuz I am getting older? It wasn’t something I was much interested in or concerned about before, but I’m glad I’m taking the time now. There are some very fascinating people back there, and it’s kinda like solving a mystery, trying to fit all the bits and pieces together. I have one big question about the first 3 generations (that I know of)... “How did they do that?” With luck, I’ll find the answers. I’m going to start a blog for it, and also post stuff here.

Okay, enough chatter for now. Anyone up to anything interesting, have blog posts (your own or others) we should all know about, plans for this or that?

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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Cheeks

by Nanette

Impossibly soft, and very fat.

2 days old. Click for larger version.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

This and That

by Nanette

Notes, stray thoughts, maybe even a point.

It’s funny, being a procrastinator. Well, sometimes it is, anyway… but today, the first official day of my Red X project, I’ve been passing by the wall calendar I made all day… and noticing the empty space for today where, by all the best laid plans, there should have already been an

. There will be after, this, of course, because… well, here I am. Writing. So there.

Oh dear, I sense a bit of resentment (already!) against the tyranny of The Red

and it’s only my first day. This does not bode well.

I have some things in the hopper, though. Something for the front page, the beginning of a series that will work to move things along and give an idea of our progress with the plans for Human Beams, which should come to fruition around the first part of September. I think I will take as a starting off point those 4 pictures along that band on the front page, which seem unrelated to anything at the moment. Each one has a meaning though, even though they too will be replaced soon. I need to also write up things for each individual section, explaining what is going on, why the sections haven’t been updated, and about the editorial boards. A good number of visitors don’t enter from the front page, so they probably think we up and died.

Then, I am just loving my friend Nancy’s new blog, and have something partially written about that. Now she is a writer, for real - a few dozen books and various awards under her belt - and has been going strong, right out of the box, with wonderful, thought provoking topics and posts that are also great fun.
Also, I have a story of something that happened a couple of years ago that was very simple but left a huge impression on me. This one I’ve been working on, off and on, for a little while. I keep deleting everything and starting over. It seems very important to capture just the right tone and to set the scene properly for this story and it’s proving remarkably difficult for me to do, even though it was a real event and I can see everything right there, in my mind… it just won’t go properly onto the page! Oh well, I’ll get it eventually. Thru the tyranny of the

, no doubt.

I’m also, as part of hb media/design, working on a couple of web design projects, and another community building type project, as well as working with arin to plan out the media/design site itself. Which reminds me, if you have any sort of credit issues that you want to learn how to take of , or want to build up your credit, or anything to do with that, arin has written and compiled a large amount of information on just how to do that - in an easy to understand way, with which steps to take when, all at Free Credit Fixes.com. An amazing resource.

I don’t write much on the issues of the day, for some reason… even the ones I really want to, like the Jena Six or various other human rights matters that need our attention. Am not sure why, but I think I will change that, to some extent.

I have been in an interesting, respectful conversation at litterolmermaid’s about women born women only places which exclude transwomen and stuff I consider transphobia and about radical feminists and so on. In fact, I have to answer a couple of comments sometime this evening. I am thinking of writing up a post about why I would reject being part of any place with that policy of exclusion and how I came to my conclusions. Maybe.

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Red X Project Chart

by Nanette

I decided that it would be even better if I put a copy of the calendar thingy online, so that I… and anyone, sigh, could follow the progress of my X’s. (details here)

basic idea - get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall ... put a red X over each day I do my task of writing (and whatever else I set for myself, for the day). Soon one will have an unbroken chain of red X's (ideally!).

This is a replica of the hand drawn calendar thing hanging on my wall. Neither one is pretty, but at least this one's lines are straighter.

July X	X	X	X	X	.	.	Aug .	.
.	.	.	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31	Sept 1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	Oct 1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Nov 1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Earning My Red X

by Nanette

One more step on the road to being organized, productive and on top of everything. Only 825,000 steps to go!

I was reading Lifehacker this morning and came across this post from someone who had received productivity advice from Jerry Seinfeld. Now, I’ve never been much into Seinfeld (comic or TV show) but the advice thing… this just might work!

He said the way to be a better comic was to create better jokes and the way to create better jokes was to write every day. But his advice was better than that. He had a gem of a leverage technique he used on himself and you can use it to motivate yourself - even when you don’t feel like it.

He then revealed a unique calendar system he was using pressure himself to write.

He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker.

He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day. “After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain.”

(read the rest - more there, including how it’s worked out for the author of the piece)

Once the chain gets going, the focus becomes on not breaking the chain - this works because even many professional writers say to just write every day, even if you don’t want to, and even if you think what you just wrote is junk, just keep doing it. And, eventually, it does become a habit, something that you just do every day, as necessary as having that morning cup of coffee. Or tea. Or whatever you personally need in the morning.

So, that’s what I’m going to do. I took a half poster board and drew a grid on it, making sure every square has a date in it - no empties for weekends or anything. I was able to get about 3 and a half months on one board, which means that I will have a pretty big chain once it is complete. It’s not just for writing, of course, because I am not primarily a writer, but also for design, for editing and other things… A plan for each day (which includes writing, no matter what) that I email to a friend so that someone else knows about it besides me, and earning my red X only once that plan has been executed for the day.

Sounds good to me!

Mind you… true to my procrastinator nature and without even thinking about it, the first date I put on my calendar is tomorrow’s. Heh.

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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Stray Thoughts and Confessions

by Nanette

Notes on life. Stray thoughts will be added as they occur. Just assume.

I have lived all my life in the US and have never owned an American flag. Or any other country’s, for that matter.

Although they sometimes may come in handy.

Oh say, can you see…

photo by Alan Chin

My friend Geoff thinks we should all have national flowers, instead. “Rally ‘round the bouquet, boys!” doesn’t have quite the same militaristic ring to it…

I read too much and write too little.

I do not much like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, but if either is the nominee for the US presidency, I will probably vote for them. For both, but definitely for Obama, I would also drag along my family, especially bringing the small persons in to watch.

And, if the nominee wins, spend the rest of my life explaining to the small people that even though I voted for the first Black man or White woman because it was an historic election, I would have to live with my complicity in whatever godawful thing they decided to do as president.

I lack the patience of my younger years, when I would spend hours facilitating discussion between various people and helping to explain diverse people to one another.

Now I just want to smack everyone involved.

Non-violently, of course

It infuriates me when people try to blame the ills of society on black babies. Or brown ones or yellow or red or white ones, for that matter.

The babies aren’t the problem.

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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

I Just Saw the Oddest Thing on PBS…

by Nanette

A Black person! Who wasn’t singing, dancing, cooking or Martin Luther King. OR Gwen Ifill.

Two, actually. It didn’t hit me at first, how odd it was. I passed by the living room where my mom was watching the show, glanced at the TV and was well on my way to the kitchen before I stopped and said “Whoa, wait - what was that?” and had to come back and look again.

A science show. With a Black host. On PBS! Will wonders never cease. I remember seeing Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson as an explainer before - I believe he’s an astrophysicist - I can’t remember who he was associated with (no doubt his bio says) but now he is the actual host of NOVA - Science Now, on PBS. This is a good thing. He’s a good talker and makes science seem fun and interesting… which it is, of course, or at least can be. It’s good to see him (or someone like him) there. I know (and know of) sooooo many Black techies or geeks… online and offline, including in my own family… I didn’t inherit this particular gene, but my father (in Nigeria) is a microbiologist, one brother has a doctorate in engineering, another is a scientist - and that’s just on that side of the family - but it’s a rarity you see that sort of thing reflected in the media. Big surprise, I know.

And there is another show on called History Detectives, with Tukufu Zuberi as one of the researchers. I really like this show, the few times I’ve seen it - possibly because I do love both researching the past and unraveling mysteries.

So, two whole Black folk in non-stereotypical roles on PBS. It’s a start.

Mind you, I live in a red state area of California so in other areas there may already have been loads of people on PBS of various ethnicities hosting various non-stereotypical shows and they’ve just not aired here, but still. Good news.

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Friday, June 15, 2007

TFTD - A Different Order of Reality

by Nanette

It’s really too hot here to do much of anything, but in accordance with my “write something every day” thingy, here is today’s Thought for the Day.

“Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.” Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe, considered by some to be the father of African literature (that is written in English) won the prestigious Man Booker award this year, in honor of his literary career. I’ve not actually read any of his work (except for small excerpts here and there), but someday I’d like to. His “Things Fall Apart”, written in 1958 - I think this was his first published book - analyzes the effects of colonialization on Igbo society in Nigeria, and has been translated into over 50 languages. Hmmm. That was the year I was born. I definitely need to get that then, if only to see how things have changed - or not - since he wrote it.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

A Promise of Better Blather

by Nanette

It’s a rare challenge, teaching 7th graders, and if one leaves them with even a small bit of uncommon knowledge that can be considered a victory.

There was one rule in Mr. Gross’ 7th grade class. Well, two, if you counted quickly getting over the giggles that erupted every time we said his name at the beginning of the year. But even that took a backseat to the main rule of the class - if you didn’t follow this rule, no matter what else you did, you could kiss getting an A goodbye. If you followed the rule you were almost guaranteed that A.

The rule? Writing down the Thought for the Day in our notebooks.

Little enough, but we moaned and groaned and argued, as if we’d been asked to write daily five page essays instead of just copy what was usually one or two sentences scrawled on the board. We found it So Odd that we should be asked to do this thing, and that it should have a bearing on our grade. It would be different if it was an English class, but it wasn’t (I can’t remember just what the class was, though… may have been math. I still blank out when confronted with numbers).

Why did he do that, I wonder? Possibly he felt that, come what may, he was going to stuff some cultural knowledge, some drops of wisdom into our little heathen heads and that was the best way he could think of doing so. Unfortunately, if any of the sayings stuck anywhere besides in my notebook, they are so deeply buried in my subconscious that it will take memory recovery hypnotherapy to get them out.

Still, who knows. This was Hollywood in the 70’s and, most likely, the sayings were related to peace and justice, kindness and care for your fellow human and that sort of thing. And considering that some of us indeed grew up believing in all those things and even working to make the world a better place, it’s entirely possible that Mr. Gross’ Thought for the Day had a hand in shaping our views and our futures.

In any case, all this is just to say that it’s not such a bad idea, and I, in yet another effort to write something - anything - daily, plan to post a thought for each day, my own or other’s. Either letting it speak for itself, or maybe expounding a bit on what it means to me. We’ll see. No need for you to write it down, though, and I promise that it won’t affect your grade.

Here’s to you, Mr. Gross.

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