Today in our intercultural yadda yadda class, we were instructed to fill in a form answering abstract questions about our history and then plunk selected answers strategically into spaces in partially completed sentences drawn from a poem by George Ella Lyon. I won’t read my result in class, but here it is for you: I am from the chalkboard in the kitchen, From eleven pet mice and penny candy. I am from the spider room, […]
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My Objectives
Michael Parenti, writing in The Culture Struggle about journalist Gary Webb who was condemned by his peers for reporting too accurately, says: “[His] real mistake was not that he wrote falsehoods but that he went too far into the truth.” Last night my friend Milt pointed out, with alarming accuracy, that I have been naí¯ve during my time here at SIT. It’s true. I hadn’t noticed how my idealism and open-mindedness had overshadowed my wisdom. […]
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