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Posted by Mark Jenkins | Mar 15, 2015 | A Musing on the Mundane, Running, Spirituality |
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood… I found my morning peace running the trails with Juno at Reedy Creek Nature Preserve this morning. I’ve been in...
Read MorePosted by Mark Jenkins | Feb 15, 2015 | Book Review, Education and Philosophy, Spirituality |
There are many easy stereotypes one could assign to the 208 pages of The Tao of Wu: a celebrity autobiography, with inherent narcissism masked as gratitude; a tale of the hip-hop life, replete with salacious stories of crime,...
Read MorePosted by Mark Jenkins | Nov 27, 2014 | Education and Philosophy, Running, Spirituality |
It’s the week of Thanksgiving. In earlier days, it would be pro forma for teachers to make students identify something for which they are thankful. But I teach high school, and that is so beneath us. So admittedly, I was caught...
Read MorePosted by Mark Jenkins | Oct 12, 2014 | Outdoors, Running |
It’s 6:07. Still dark outisde. My alarm will go off in eight minutes, but I’m not going back to sleep: I slide out of bed stealthily so Nicole stays asleep. The morning is still. I try to stay quiet so as not to...
Read MorePosted by Mark Jenkins | Sep 16, 2014 | Education and Philosophy |
As days go, today could be categorized as one for the “L” column in so many ways: lack of sleep, underprepared, and to top it all off, a soul-sucking workshop that ate the better portion of my afternoon. There is no...
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