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Where we stand

Atop the ridge The fishing boats in the village below swoon. At rest, for now. Their bright flags stand taut, and ready.  The boy begins to climb. He expertly navigates the swarm of boulders piled hundreds deep. Barefoot, agile, he ascends to greet. He’s done this before. Clearly, so too have his friends. Word is …

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Posted byRaduttiMarch 7, 2019March 7, 2019Posted inUncategorized4 Comments on Where we stand

Satisfaction

There’s a moment in The Good Place where our protagonist Eleanor chooses from a limitless array of frozen yogurt flavours, finally landing on Fully Charged Cell Phone Battery. “This really is satisfying.” she proclaims with a nod. It’s an incredible bit of social commentary, pointing directly at where we are in place and time. Of …

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Posted byRaduttiMarch 6, 2019March 6, 2019Posted inUncategorized6 Comments on Satisfaction

On the Ground

We’ve made a terrible mistake. The bags quietly hit the floor and we remove our shoes. She gently pulls open the curtains and we peer through the accordion bars at a yellowish-gray wall, neatly crowned with spiraling barbed wire. Light filters in, but it’s a musty, flaccid light, with little soul, or flare. We exchange …

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Posted byRaduttiMarch 5, 2019March 5, 2019Posted inUncategorized11 Comments on On the Ground

The Answer is Always Yes

Children Students Young Ones If you approach an adult and begin your question with Do we have to

Posted byRaduttiMarch 4, 2019March 4, 2019Posted inUncategorized7 Comments on The Answer is Always Yes

6pm

A sense of ground, a need for here I don’t always have it at the end of the day. I’m flustered a sea of distraction maze of ideas that small hint of what was the thing I told myself to remember and take care of who was I supposed to email again oh crap I …

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Posted byRaduttiMarch 3, 2019March 3, 2019Posted inUncategorized6 Comments on 6pm

Ghost

This guy, I mean, look. There was a time when he admitted I was a friend. Doesn’t help that there’s an extra layer of weight on it all – this feeling that I’ve let him down because of what happened the day I should have been looking out, should have handled things differently. And now …

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Posted byRaduttiMarch 2, 2019March 4, 2019Posted inUncategorized7 Comments on Ghost

Play Dough

Listen. I don’t care what has happened so far. What I do care about is that this is taken care of at her next school. In my shop if someone says they’re going to take care of something, they do it, or else. It’s just the way things get done and this didn’t get done. …

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Posted byRaduttiMarch 1, 2019March 1, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: self-doubt, teaching4 Comments on Play Dough

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