More snow, literature, and weird vocab...




Okay, who ordered snow squalls? Gross. 

It's cold, dark, and snowy. Yeah, it's winter (or, as my friend Ruth would say, it's not technically winter yet... but still...). 

Last evening, I got to zoom with two of my poetry friends, and it was a lovely respite from all the crazy stuff. I highly recommend hanging out with friends, even if it is virtually. 

Today, we begin Dickens in one class (Hard Times), and we start talking about Braiding Sweetgrass in the other. I'm grateful to be on "firmer" ground-- the AP Language roller coaster has kept me on tenterhooks all semester. I'm really glad to be easing into nothing but literature for a while. Research and factual writing are good, but they are not that exciting to read students drafts for, over and over again. 

Do you ever wake up with a word in your head? I mean, just a word. I often wake up with a song running in my mind, which apparently is not something most people have happen. But every now and then I wake up with just a single word. It is kind of spooky. 

Today, it was casuistry. Which is defined as "the use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions."

O think my subconscious is sending me the vocabulary I will need to approach today's news cycle. 

Sigh. 

Have a good day, friends. Hold onto your loved ones. We need to build a life raft.

C

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