What Makes Something Compelling?
Read. Write...and now CREATE and SHARE...Few of you would bake a cake and not eat it. Most of you, especially if you are proud of your cake, would want to share your cake.This is basically the idea behind your Odyssey Portfolio. Create something awesome. Share it.A...
Thanksgiving
https://youtu.be/V9H1ItMXuLQ Thanksgiving I am surprised sometimesby the suddenness of November:beauty abruptly shedto a common nakedness—grasses deadenedby hoarfrost,persistent memoriesof people I’ve lost.It is left to those of usdressed in the hardbarky...
Me & Rocky…
Take your foot off the brakes, but keep your eyes on the road~FitzOnce, back in my days as a logger, I cut through a big white oak. I didn't realize that the trunk was mostly rotten and hollow until my chain saw was most of the way through the monstrous tree. After...
The Uses and Abuses of Rhetoric
So What’s Your Point?The Uses and Abuses of RhetoricKnowing that you do not understand is a virtue; Not knowing that you do not understand is a defect. —Lao TzuNobody likes to be wrong, and for that matter, most of us “like” to be right. Few of us walk around...
It’s time for a change…
https://youtu.be/6W7xnYQGlg4 Let the chips fall where they will...My entire adult life has been spent writing personal essays. I fact, whenever I write anything else—a song, a poem, or a story—I can trace its birth to some essay I have previously written. Personal...
Passion…
Does this video really have anything to do with English? It was posted by a friend--who is easily the most talented musician I know--so I watched, more out of a shop teacher's curiosity of "how things are made." What strikes me most is not the skill of the violin...
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