Mark O’Meara: the blog

Lunchbreak — Give Us Some Feedback by I am Jacques Strappe

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mind walk?opaque by mistubako

Trenchant desires are, naturally, most easily discarded as postcards before a cold July. Our true, and by this we mean closely and intimately tied to us with binds made of pure love and fear, friends know that the door is never truly and resolutely closed and not revealed. It is just waiting for the calm of the winter beyond.

from Bleak Days of Considerable Joys
- T. McBuckle

Lesson for the day - I could never write this stuff but I can copy it in here easily enough.

The Way to a Man’s Heart by jo92

Tomorrow is the day on which tradition says women can propose to men. I don’t delude myself that Nicky has any plans or that I am any better a man than I have been for the other leaps years I’ve been around her.

Lesson for the day - even the bald, overweight and slightly dim can live in hope.

scrapbook 3 by dr.quitti

Today I used that collection of newspaper clippings and they went pretty well. My students read an article and did some very simple activities with them. They listed all the people mentioned. They defined three words and found three more they didn’t know to define later.

I asked them to give each give their article a rating out of five for how interesting it was. Of course there were some ones but there was a very encouraging mix of threes, fours and fives.

Lesson for the day - it’s encouraging when something that seems like a good idea goes well.

A Bit Windy Today by Jeannie.H

Sometimes annoying little things in life are simply explained. Somehow it would seem more poetic, interesting or profound if there really was something in the water making many of the students ratty and combative.

Sadly the reality is utterly mundane. They had a day off yesterday and this is what happens.

Lesson for the day - somehow soluble things feel like they can be solved.

Union City, California by Jim in Times Square

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Narana Creations, Geelong by TheElixirfixer

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Narana Creations

Maxtor’s Lost/Found display by sigmaration

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everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes by lea oh

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I’m famous to fifteen people
all of them know me
looking for sixteen
but i’ll just wait and see

one and two are so true blue
more so than three and four
five through nine have done their time
but they come back for more

eleven and ten are here again
they know both my songs
i’m a big fan of the last three
and have been for so long

I’m famous to fifteen people
all of them know me
looking for sixteen
but i’ll just wait and see

Together Alone by MarkOMeara

I spend the school day with thirty-four school children on a trip to the coast. It is, admittedly, a bit of a worry that you can see me but no teenagers in this photo.

The day went really well. The tide behaved itself, there was no rain, most of the kids went where they were went to, and we found the bus to take us home (eventually).

Lesson for the day - there are far worse places to be than the beach.