thought I would share a poem i just wrote....it has literally been a few years since i have written anything, but for some reason this evening I wrote this poem in a matter of a few minutes.
no name...just words:
Creative collect
gatherings of lustful hegemony
concatenate the growth of eternal fortitudes
retreat into regression
repeat introspection
repair the loaded chambers
reduce the inflammation of desire
design
deliver and;
comb over the prejudices of flattery
for the fad look of modesty to obtain
abstain
refrain
sustain the deliverance from solace
identify with the souls of change
manage to manage
life's cliché of amount
to mount, to ride
to experience
confide
on occasion while i sleep i hear i weep
i dance on the night with the blanket
doused in my own calamities
of viscous rendition
to enjoy my ambiguous condition
to liver is to bleed
being eaten with greed
i live liver live her
relegate; deliver
come between the scene
of crow-like macabre
to entice my world of infinite
drawing on the pragmatic enigmatic
one, two....or three
to count is to fail
as the days seem short
but my heart will prevail
overcome
be undone, overheard
and persist
beat, beat the odds
a little about this poem:
not really sure what it means...the words really just came out of my head to my fingers to this blog....
but seeing how lately i've been reflecting a lot on things in my life, mostly dealings in romance...i find it a relevant insight, but also right before i wrote the poem, i heard and really liked Frankie J's remake of "More Than Words" by Extreme, conjuring up lots of feelings in the past.
My friend Koji and I use to sing that song to his guitar in college to vent some of the pains of us having a long distance relationships....ahhh, not the most ideal type of relationship - lesson learned.
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Hiatus is over!!!!
I absolutely cannot believe that I almost skipped October in my blogging!!!
Things have definitely been busy, that's for sure!
Work
The software development project (FASC-IS) has consumed a large portion of my time....but more in a re-tooling process.
Just started some computer literacy workshops in collaboration with National Student Partnerships and TOP CAT
Got a mini-grant to host a dialogue on the United Nations and the US working together via NC Campus Compact and the UN Foundation
Moved office locations and set-up all the computers with the lab.
Leading a student to do ethnographic research on volunteer impact of NCCU and the Durham community.
Beginning to write a grant with my Director utilizing technology.
Still trying to figure out the craziness called Microsoft Access!
Prepare and submit my quarterly report!
Helped organize a Service Learning workshop.
Took lots of pictures and enhanced them with photoshop for the website!
ahhh....lots more
Friends
Mark and Danyel had their baby boy, Calvin Baxter Warren
(Picture on Right)
Dane and Bobbi had their baby girl, Kelsy Onorio
Rory came back from Iraq for a brief period of time.
Leisure
Watched seasons 1-4 of smallville (quite a feat!)
Read "The Historian"
Read "Memoirs of a Geisha" again
Read "Leadership on the Line" again
Read lotsa computer books -- not that leisurely
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I guess thats a summary....
Today and yesterday I went to the SCALE Conference and was pleasantly suprised with all of the awesome programs in literacy education!
Some highlights:
"Poetry is not a Jukebox"
The presenter, Raina, was really great in her examples and her interactive approach.
She showed us really awesome ways to create poetry in almost a quiltlike way and also using newspaper articles and pulling words from columns to make your own poetry. THATS COOL!
We took a field trip to the art museum and wrote a little poem about a piece.
What I really like about this session was that she wasn't really trying to tell us how to do 'her' program/s, but just to have fun. It was really relaxed. She provided us working knowledge of ways to use poetry by allowing us to experience it!
"Theater of the Oppressed"
While very interactive, it wasn't forced on us to participate....more like slowly raising the temperature throughout, engaging us to 'want' to participate.
Dr. Mittman showed us through 'spect-acting', playing someone's personal unresolved issue with a small group of 4 or 5, but not talking.....posing each person to display a scene in that issue.
This example slowly progressed into each actor of the scene saying something from their scene....with everyone else trying to figure out what it was all about.
I can see far reaching application of these techniques and will see how I can infuse it somehow into my work...might be hard since I am focused on technology though.
"Volunteers as Public Advocates"
Both David Rosen and Daniella Cook provide a lot of insight and good suggestions on advocating policy, but what I really gained from this is Daniella's passionate explanation of 'Bush's' "No Child Left Behind".....which now, more than ever, pisses me off. I didn't really have a full understanding of all the players involved and the demands on the teachers....but after hearing Daniella talk, it all made sense.
"Engaging Adults in Literacy Education"
The main thing I gained from this session was "IGI" or "Individualized Group Instruction".....It is my hope that this methodology might be very useful in the newly established computer literacy workshops.
All in all this conference was wonderful.....seemed like everyone was from a different state, but collectively we were in this 'together'.
Next week I am attending NC Campus Compact's annual student conference and presenting some of my work in Academic Community Service Learning as well as providing some technology tools for students to use in organizing, reflection, and social action. I will post more when I attend next week! I hope its not too cold as I will be at Appalachian State University...in the mountains...
Shame on me for not posting in so long!
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. "
Aristotle
Things have definitely been busy, that's for sure!
Work
The software development project (FASC-IS) has consumed a large portion of my time....but more in a re-tooling process.
Just started some computer literacy workshops in collaboration with National Student Partnerships and TOP CAT
Got a mini-grant to host a dialogue on the United Nations and the US working together via NC Campus Compact and the UN Foundation
Moved office locations and set-up all the computers with the lab.
Leading a student to do ethnographic research on volunteer impact of NCCU and the Durham community.
Beginning to write a grant with my Director utilizing technology.
Still trying to figure out the craziness called Microsoft Access!
Prepare and submit my quarterly report!
Helped organize a Service Learning workshop.
Took lots of pictures and enhanced them with photoshop for the website!
ahhh....lots more
Friends
Mark and Danyel had their baby boy, Calvin Baxter Warren
(Picture on Right)
Dane and Bobbi had their baby girl, Kelsy Onorio
Rory came back from Iraq for a brief period of time.
Leisure
Watched seasons 1-4 of smallville (quite a feat!)
Read "The Historian"
Read "Memoirs of a Geisha" again
Read "Leadership on the Line" again
Read lotsa computer books -- not that leisurely
-----
I guess thats a summary....
Today and yesterday I went to the SCALE Conference and was pleasantly suprised with all of the awesome programs in literacy education!
Some highlights:
"Poetry is not a Jukebox"
The presenter, Raina, was really great in her examples and her interactive approach.
She showed us really awesome ways to create poetry in almost a quiltlike way and also using newspaper articles and pulling words from columns to make your own poetry. THATS COOL!
We took a field trip to the art museum and wrote a little poem about a piece.
What I really like about this session was that she wasn't really trying to tell us how to do 'her' program/s, but just to have fun. It was really relaxed. She provided us working knowledge of ways to use poetry by allowing us to experience it!
"Theater of the Oppressed"
While very interactive, it wasn't forced on us to participate....more like slowly raising the temperature throughout, engaging us to 'want' to participate.
Dr. Mittman showed us through 'spect-acting', playing someone's personal unresolved issue with a small group of 4 or 5, but not talking.....posing each person to display a scene in that issue.
This example slowly progressed into each actor of the scene saying something from their scene....with everyone else trying to figure out what it was all about.
I can see far reaching application of these techniques and will see how I can infuse it somehow into my work...might be hard since I am focused on technology though.
"Volunteers as Public Advocates"
Both David Rosen and Daniella Cook provide a lot of insight and good suggestions on advocating policy, but what I really gained from this is Daniella's passionate explanation of 'Bush's' "No Child Left Behind".....which now, more than ever, pisses me off. I didn't really have a full understanding of all the players involved and the demands on the teachers....but after hearing Daniella talk, it all made sense.
"Engaging Adults in Literacy Education"
The main thing I gained from this session was "IGI" or "Individualized Group Instruction".....It is my hope that this methodology might be very useful in the newly established computer literacy workshops.
All in all this conference was wonderful.....seemed like everyone was from a different state, but collectively we were in this 'together'.
Next week I am attending NC Campus Compact's annual student conference and presenting some of my work in Academic Community Service Learning as well as providing some technology tools for students to use in organizing, reflection, and social action. I will post more when I attend next week! I hope its not too cold as I will be at Appalachian State University...in the mountains...
Shame on me for not posting in so long!
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. "
Aristotle
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