online: 25 february 2010 modified: 18, 25 february 2010 17 february 2010 spring is here
in the city forest
...sun and mist and gentle breeze... a few blades of grass sprouting in mud and fallen leaves... thoughts of new writing after this long winter...
...now to resume the education of myself and everyone... at this moment in which the people of the book join other characters in an experimental city on an imaginary planet... retreating from what is wrong with industrial living as we know it... while attempting something better...
...birds fly swiftly from tree to tree as a jumbojet moves slowly through the lower atmosphere in the sunshine and mist... young people on sport bikes ride swiftly down the steep slopes of what once were sandpits before this became a forest... a brown and blue jay flies away in a straight line at my approach... and a man to whom i spoke said 'yes, spring is in the air today... you can smell it!'...
re-reading my notes of education (perceived as an authoritarian disaster or a decentral pleasure) i recall occasions when one or other of these opposed ways of teaching and learning left me sad, or happy... though a moment's thought may suggest other ways of learning... that combine and transcend these extremes... or opposites...
...sitting now amidst the trees by pond two i see weak sunlight reflected off the surface of the water... in this first moment of spring everything seems still, here in this valley... the elderberry is already in leaf while other trees appear to be asleep... though i imagine that they are all in process of awakening...
....and that is how i feel this afternoon... the sap is rising...
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