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cosmic muddle. learner, teacher, reader, writer, dancer, human. living in the midwest of the united states, paying attention to the seasons. she/they
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logging off for hopefully awhile again. grateful i was able to find multiple good poems to repost today. I have also been reading Danez Smith’s Bluff after listening to their absolutely spectacular interview with @davidnaimon.bsky.social on Between the Covers. all of these things are Good.

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I taught Levine’s “what work is” in a gen ed lit survey today and heard a few quiet sniffles, saw some watery eyes. (some of) the kids are alright. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52173/...

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"Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty." #poem by Ada Limón

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Maybe the problem is that we haven’t leveraged the natural enemy of Doge, which is Nyan Cat. National Yeet A Nazi Coalition Against Tyranny

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The crisis in higher education is both a culture war boondoggle AND the result of a pivot into the kind of loan system funding model that looked like a thinly-veiled bait and switch con job literally the moment it entered public discourse.

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yes love this

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literally. like why do u need to know

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the dream

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can i hire an assistant to set up the mute words in my account because i do not have the brain space or physical energy for that kind of thing but it just means i only log in here like once a week because that is all i can handle

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glad i read this today

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a 2-minute act of resistance

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oh also, i have been experimenting with prayer this week. if you have a prayer that you like and you are willing to share it here or via DM, that might be nice

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logging off with a poem

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this week was difficult. and i’m still here. and i still have work to do but at least i don’t have to go to a classroom again until Monday.

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something I’d like to see in academic spaces is centering that loss of actual dei grants is TRAGIC and HORRIBLE and fucking wrong. not just “this work which is not dei-related keeps getting flagged as well, so the system is not working”

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