Things I've noticed lately. I like the word, notice.
One of Jim's students wrote him a week ago:
Dear Professor. I just noticed I received a D.
He just happened to notice.
And in the noticing, no doubt, he wished he could no longer notice.
But still, he is only noticing.
As if he is a mere observer. Even a distant observer.
And the D is like a bird that landed on his windowsill.
Who can say why? Or know how some things land as they land.
Writer’s Digest 94th Annual Competition Rhyming Poetry First Place Winner:
“Plaints of the Old Git”
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Congratulations to Peter Hankins, first-place winner in the Rhyming Poetry
category of the 94th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. Here’s his
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1 comment:
this made me chuckle out loud
students often "notice" these sort of things
it may just be the curmudgeonization process that i have subscribed to
but i find that a lot of folks experience life as if it is being done to them against their will.
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