Monthly Archives: March 2018

03.30.18
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Impact (an acrostic poem)

I looked at the men in line in front of me

Men who had sacrificed so much to get to this moment

Perhaps you would call them heroes, but I call them brothers

As we walk out onto the field I secretly smile

Couldn’t ask for anything better

Than to watch and cheer for our daughters as they play their hearts out

 

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03.28.18
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Gravity (an acrostic poem)

Giving the topic the weight it deserved

Rob thought about how heavy this discussion was going to be

Acerbity left his mouth fowled

Veiled threats forced themselves into his thoughts

It put pressure on what he was about to do

To think his dignity was about be sucked into a black hole

Yet he still made the airplane noises to get John to eat is peas

 

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03.27.18
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Balance (an acrostic poem)

Begin your journey with the blessing of desire

Always want to experience the adventure

Live in every moment along the way

And if something bad happens, remember the end goal

Never lose sight of that.  Get up, dust yourself off and continue

Can’t make it to the end?  Then find a new spot on the horizon and go

Equilibrium in all things, except in life experience.  There seize everything

 

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03.26.18
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Peaches (an acrostic poem)

Perhaps I should contemplate the finer things of life

Envisioning a dream scenario

An ocean front condo right on the beach

Counting the waves as they break along the sandy shore

How I could spend days in that spot, basking in the sun

Eventually I would wake up and wonder what else I could do,

So I’m movin’ to the country, I’m gonna eat me a lot of …

 

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03.25.18
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The Game (a 100 word story)

Alyssa looked at the game before her.  It was so much easier to make a wrong move than a right one.  It was almost like the whole thing was stacked against her.  Forget almost like.  The people who had created the rules didn’t really want her to have a chance.  Still she realized she had to play the game or else admit that she was a loser.  Alyssa was a fighter, not a loser, so she wasn’t about to do that.  That being said, she was all about changing the rules.  She holstered her sign a bit higher and marched.

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03.25.18
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Water (an acrostic poem)

Wouldn’t it be nice if the boiler would work?

And also there wouldn’t be any leaks?

Too bad it failed on the later

Everything came to a halt as warm wetness spread

Ruining parts of the basement

 

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03.24.18
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What is Equality? (a short short story)

“What is equality?” asked Marcus to his class.

A student raised her hand.  “It is about having equal protections under the law of the land.”

“Very good.  Any others?”

“It is treating everyone with the same respect and dignity,” said another student.

Yet another student chimed in.  “You read everyone’s words and actions as though they were yours or a family members.”

Marcus smiled and nodded.  “Those are all good answers, but I was thinking more like this.”

Marcus went to the whiteboard and picked up a marker.  He wrote in large script ‘2+2=4’  Then on the other board he wrote ‘3+6=9’.

The students laughed at what he had done and Marcus took a mock bow before continuing.   He pointed to the first equation.  “In the first equation, everything on the left hand side of the equation is the same, and so are both sides of the equation.  Everything here is equal.”  He circled the 2+2=4 and then underlined it.

Marcus move to the second equation.  Using the marker, he pointed to the six.  “See, here six is twice the size of three.  That Is definitely not equal, and yet in the end of the equation,” here Marcus circled the 9, “the numbers are equal.  Not only that, but if I wrote this.”  Marcus wrote a big ‘x + y = 9’ on the board.   “Do you know what x and y are?”

“Three and six,” said a student.

Marcus nodded, but then rotated his hands in circles around each other.  “But that was you using pre knowledge.  If I hadn’t shown you the previous equation, would you know what x and y are?”

Most of the students shook their head no.  Marcus’ smile grew bigger.  “You see, that is my point.  Sometimes we focus on the left hand side of our equation, and there are times we need to do so.  We want to be as equal as we can be, but there are different gifts and knowledge sets, but at the end what is important is this.”  With that he circled all three of the equal signs.  “No matter what the values are here.”  Once again he underlined the two 2’s, the 3, and the 6.  “Sometimes the equality of the whole is what ultimately matters.”

A young man’s hand shot up.  “But what does that mean for us?”

“Well that’s for you to find out,” Marcus said as he pointed at the student.  Then he pointed all around the class.  “That is part of your homework.  The other part is trying to apply this mathematical understanding to everyone and everything you see.  And you thought you were in just a basic pre-calculus class.”

 

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