5:22 AM View

 

Overcast.

All I know now is that it’s Friday and I’m tired.

4:45 PM View

It’s a lovely day!  And a busy day!  

The video shows the loveliness,

5:13 AM View

 

Is it going to be a lovely day?

4:17 PM View

 When I started doing this view thang, I would just post a photo.  I later decided to post some thoughts, words as it were, with the photo.  So I then felt honor-bound whenever I took a view photo to add some words below the photo as soon as I took the photo.  That is, I would still publish the photo ASAP.  The last two days, I have done something different.  I have taken the photo but given myself more time to think about what I want to say before i publish the photo.

How I wish I could go on tangents every class.  Following a curriculum is boring!

11:58 AM View

 I asked the students to tell me what things they wish were never invented.  They gave some answers that got me thinking.

One student said alarm clock.  It got me to thinking of a Chinese emperor being shown a clock by European visitors.  The emperor was said to have been wary of the invention.  I wrote “slave to the clock” on the board and one student agreed with me absolutely.

Another student wished homework had never been invented and another said exams.  I asked the students if it was perhaps the Chinese who had invented the exam with the creation of the process of civil servant selection.  The students all said no… It had to be the Europeans.

4:54 AM View

 Mixing up the routine this morning; doing the view earlier.

Extended my Duolingo and Hallow streaks to 1543 & 46 days respectively.

4:49 PM View

 This is the view after returning home from my afternoon at school.

I listened to a podcast where a controversial pastor — i.e. one the progs don’t like — said that the Christian answer to the question of the one or the many, liberty or form/structure is Yes.  To me it is a recognition of the paradox of existence that Chesterton liked to write about.  We must strive to make the world better but never expect it to be utopia.  We are all sinners.

The students were surprised by the ending of Se7en.  Good.  I’m glad I thought to show it.

I forgot to mention this happening:  as I was to the deluxe restaurant after volunteering at the marathon, an older local gentleman came up to me to shake my hand.  He had run in the race and saw me volunteering.  It’s nice to be recognized.

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12:53 PM View

 This was the view after i had finished lunch and just before I left to go back to work in the afternoon,

5:18 AM View

 Speaking Tesr morning.

I’ve taken a video where you can hear birds chirping.

I’ve extended my Duo and Hallow streaks to 1542 days and 45 days respectively.

Never give the progressives moral high ground.  Everything they do makes the problems they purport to solve worse.  Why is it they persist in their folly?

So tempting to tell the students to self study. I’m just running out the clock  at this point.