funehows

Many good speeches focus on one BIG idea and this is what I’d like to focus on now. Your reputation is what savvy people say is happening… Read more “repYOU”

The Captain Kangaroo Show went on the air just a few months after I was born in 1954. Actor Bob Keeshan wore a bulky jacket with enormous… Read more “Mr. Green Jeans Wasn’t Black and White”

gate open or gate shut free range hens eat and peck swallow everything in the yard moving or static bug gravel foods coops are for night predation… Read more “quan(tity) dumb”

Middle school students live in a nether land between childhood and adulthood and its inhabitants are functionally “Tweeners”. Teaching middle school students can be like working in… Read more “lay bells”

Zen Buddhism promotes “Shoshin, beginner’s mind” as a way to expand awareness. The word “beginner” labels the unskilled novice and it’s assumed that nobody willingly wants to… Read more “Beginner’s mind”

Behind cuteness, a child sees clearly what adults smirk at. Oversize heads dangle down arms. Each “my” is either an opportunity or a misunderstanding about what can… Read more “my(ha)nd”

For most of my life, I occasionally pretended toward a Fire Ceremony to sanctify the phenomenon of burning. Like many momentous things considered commonplace, fires were merely… Read more “A(we)LL”

At the Sound of Orient underneath an Osprey nest walked a seeker in rounded stones looking for shattered glass polished smooth by waves rolled over and over… Read more “Ailenor”

A weird trend in America reveals a lot about our ability to be engaged or ever focus on one thing and be present with others. “According to… Read more “luna see”

Eva (Eve) Schwab Smith died on December 24, 2019 at 12:24 pm. The death certificate lists a different, later time but one of Eve’s granddaughters, Robyn, is… Read more “Eulogy for Eve”