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The Power of Nature-Based Learning in Language Arts Curriculum
Childless in Appalachia (The Societal Costs of Teaching Yet Kidless)
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Poem: Dear Romeo
Lyrics: The Good Life
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Connected to the shiny heart strings.
Love languages for linguists.
Phrases that musically became songs.
Ever since I could write, I have been writing in a diary, journal, notebook, or memo pad. I love the entire feeling of spelling such lovely words onto a page. It is truly magical.
Additionally, I spent a decade as an English teacher, Peace Corps Volunteer, and community organizer. I like to write in all four of the languages I speak, although I typically stick to English and Romanian.
I can write essentially anything. After years of experience, I have perfected the craft of language and communication in the professional and educational world. My background in literature and psychology bridges human stories and sociology like no other. Indeed, I am eclectic, but talented.
FEBRUARY 2025
By Dylan Thomas
Copyright Credit:
Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” from The Poems of Dylan Thomas. Copyright 1939, 1946 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Source: The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1957)
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.