And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this poem shall confront them as a witness, for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their descendants. (Deuteronomy 31:21) After five days on the Cape spent mostly exploring Eastham and Wellfleet we wanted to venture as far out (up) as we could and so to Provincetown. The end of the road. The tip…
Eli Lilly’s Pushers for Corporate School Reform
The Lilly Endowment is the venture philanthropy outfit which owns stock in the mega pharmaceutical drug company, Eli Lilly. As a major participant in advancing the corporatization of Indiana education, the Lilly Endowment prominently finances local initiatives and national rightwing anti-public school think tanks like the Sagamore Institute, the Hudson Institute, the Manhattan Institute, and the American Enterprise Institute. Besides Mitch Daniels, past and current drug…
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Occupy Learning: Saying No to Institutions of Coercion
A commenter, Tammie, on the “Occupy School Reform” post from 10/17, says that schools are handmaidens to cultural homogeneity and have never been intended to do anything more than manage underlings. Well, I might quibble with “intentions” but it’s hard to fault her when we simply see what has been wrought out of them. But she should speak for herself–and I urge you to read…
Day in Photos: Both Sides of the Cape
[pictures are from Ryder Beach (Wellfleet) and Nauset Beach] “The sand-bank–the backbone of the Cape–rose directly from the beach to the height of a hundred feet or more above he ocean. It was with singular emotions that we first stood upon it and discovered what a place we had chosen to walk on. On our right, beneath us, was the beach of smooth and gently-sloping…
“First Encounter” – After Theft of Winter Seed Storage
[Photos taken at First Encounter Beach in Eastham. Text from Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, 1622, Part I.] Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence…
Stuck in Melancholy Post-Adolescence Since 1839
[genesis in Joel Porte’s “Representative Man”.] In an early Lecture of 1839 called “Human Life” Emerson reveals a kind of self-diagnosis of his “fear of aging”, or rather of dying young without great achievement, but he applies it to the nations’ youth: Young men, young women at thirty and even earlier have lost all spring and vivacity and if they fail in their first enterprizes…
Cape Cod Photo Journal – Eastham, Orleans and Chatham
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Cape Cod Dispatches: Day 1–Events of Importance
[Posting will be light, but still daily, and very errant–well, not really errant as you’ve likely noticed the argument even if errant, always circles back to where I set out.] Walking in the woods it may be some afternoon the shadow of the wings of a thought flits across the landscape of my mind. And I am reminded how little eventful is our lives. What…
“It contains us.” Setting Poetry’s Course in Tranströmer
[This piece began as an email between its author and Indiana Poet Laureate Karen Kovacik but grew deeper out of a discussion with Errant contributor Eric Sargent. I have stolen freely from Mr. Sargent. That’s what he gets for not writing it himself.] Tomas Tranströmer’s “After a Death” seems a poem written to universalize a human response to a death and yet still to localize…