With love to Margaret, and all my many beautiful teachers. You are the Gift. Today, I am an adult. I read, long ago, that Cherokee people count 52 as the age of majority, when one attains to the full rights/responsibilities of adulthood. It resonated with me, the notion that, by 52, one’s had kids (if…
Tag: teaching
2006: Handout
it’s 2006 and this is garden time; when else to teach about the mighty work of bees? i don’t get out much and i don’t mind i am asked to conduct a workshop for teachers about indigenous pedagogy specifically, the nature and uses of orality. i tell stories and tell about stories what…
2004: Breach of Manners
it’s 2004 the year i forget when i am due at a studio to judge a poetry contest, ’til the dear friend who set this up phones me, afraid something might have happened apart from what did, my thoughts gone indwelling as my belly swells. this is the great mystery of woman become galaxy spinning…
