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Morning Dogs: choka
The scrabble of claws across the linoleum: waking with the dogs. At the first hint of morning, they are ready to go. Forget your sleeping. The moment your body stirs, their insistence starts. Outside, outside! they clamor, until you do … Continue reading
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Tagged children, choka, daily poems, dogs, domesticity, Japanese verse forms, morning, poetic forms
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The Failure of American Public Schools
The failure of the American public school system is that while we have emphasized the importance of those skills that “get things done” or that provide our children with the technological tool set to “compete” on a global scale, we … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged America, art, children, curriculum, education, music, music education, schools, teaching
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On the Next Child Prodigy
I don’t begrudge a twelve year old their wish to idolize an artist of their own time-frame with the same likes and sense of space that come from being twelve a while. But for adults to seek the same — … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged children, exploitation, fame, idols, mass media, music, sensationalism, talent
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Daddy’s Little Girl
Sometimes it’s hard to know the right way to begin Too often words don’t get me past the might have beens The mistakes I’ve made that haunt me linger on And it’s hard explaining just where I went wrong Sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged children, dedications, devotion, family, fatherhood, Jeff Rachall
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They grow up fast
They grow up fast; in just a short month’s span the smallest seed becomes a tall, wild stalk grown high enough to look down on a man. But that time does not fly, despite the talk philosophers will write in … Continue reading