teaching
Why are my students afraid of the world?
Simon Estok defines the term “ecophobia” as “a uniquely human psychological condition that prompts antipathy toward nature.”
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I sat on the back sideways with my hands on the metal section of the motorcycle while my legs dangled out
I closed my eyes when we passed the slope where I had my accident.
Rain is different in New Orleans
It fills up the potholes and stripped-away concrete in the streets and makes an already rough commute sluggish. In the summer, it rains almost every afternoon, as if the city itself hits a breaking point right around 2 p.m. — “all right, it’s just too hot” — and gives up and breaks down in storms.
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I’d lost count, but I think we were beginning the fourth time through “Minuet No. 2″
We’d hear the piece approximately 10 times before we got to school.
I told him what various animals and vegetables are called
I didn’t tell him kindness won’t stop the fascists.
