I'm not here.
“It goes without saying,”
they say.
Without expressing
simple joy
anxiety
gratitude
flusteredness
love
anger!
or thanks.
It just goes without saying,
most of the time
and we go
looking
watching
waiting
not noticing the oak or the ash.
The marks in the leaves are the same.
Right?
Anyway,
no one is saying anyway.
But what if it went with saying.
They’d say,
“It goes with saying.”
And we might say,
thanks.
(thanks.)
By ANNE BOYER in The New Inquiry (probably via rogre andor lizettegreco)
2. demonstrate uncertainty
4. do not let the terms with which you understand the world get in the way of understanding it
5. give up any desire to be the smartest person in the room
6. remember that students have bodies and that bodies require movement, sustenance, rest, and relief
8. preserve and sustain whatever delusions you’ve found necessary to behave in good faith
11. a socratic bully is still a bully
13. listen with your body
“132. That is to say: I have been trying to go limp in the face of heartache, as another friend says he does in the face of his anxiety. ‘Think of it as an act of civil disobedience,’ he says. ‘Let the police peel you up.’”