Sunday, May 30, 2010
Real-Time Video of Gulf Oil Spill
Sometimes this video may be stalled or unavailable. It is a view of the Gulf oil spill from remote robotic cameras 5000 feet below the ocean surface, right at the source of the leak.
It's sickening. In fact, there's no words to describe how truly sickening it really is.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
End of Year
My academic year is about to end; I had a marvelous semester teaching creative writing, though am very sad that my health problems made me miss a small amount of time this semester. At least I got some control with asthma and I think we will finish out a good year. I will never forget the students I had this year, as I remember and love them all over the many years I have been priviledged to be a teacher.
It has been one of those life-changing years overall, but the nature of life is, after all, change and stretching. Resisting change is only natural, but it leads me to frustration and resentment; the past has already slipped over the transom the instant that it happens.
Losing many significant people in my life in the last few years shows me that life really is a dance forward. I can choose to either sit in place, or take the steps forward that life actually compels me to do every single day--even with my health struggles this year, even with all the uncertainties about my job, about the amount of classes I will have in the Fall, with everything, I simply hope that my steps are graceful and that I open my hands to whatever comes.
It has been one of those life-changing years overall, but the nature of life is, after all, change and stretching. Resisting change is only natural, but it leads me to frustration and resentment; the past has already slipped over the transom the instant that it happens.
Losing many significant people in my life in the last few years shows me that life really is a dance forward. I can choose to either sit in place, or take the steps forward that life actually compels me to do every single day--even with my health struggles this year, even with all the uncertainties about my job, about the amount of classes I will have in the Fall, with everything, I simply hope that my steps are graceful and that I open my hands to whatever comes.
Monday, May 10, 2010
voice from the cave
Hi, everyone from under the grading mountain. So much to do in two days. I will be up late on this cold evening.
No one at my university (at least amongst the lecturers) knows if they have a job next semester, or how much work there will be. When I learned that I might not have my course assignments til June, I decided to respond with a positive heart. Logically, past experience has shown me I have never fallen. I trust the department to at least try to keep its staff in place--besides, the chair always paid me a visit in my office when he felt that he could not hire me again, and it always turned out that he could. And last year I got creative writing as my course to teach.
No one at my university (at least amongst the lecturers) knows if they have a job next semester, or how much work there will be. When I learned that I might not have my course assignments til June, I decided to respond with a positive heart. Logically, past experience has shown me I have never fallen. I trust the department to at least try to keep its staff in place--besides, the chair always paid me a visit in my office when he felt that he could not hire me again, and it always turned out that he could. And last year I got creative writing as my course to teach.
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