CONTAGIOUS ENTHUSIASM FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
I wrote much of this post about 5 years ago and was reminded of it recently by one of my subscribers who remembered it. I forgot to ask what was it that caught the attention of the reader. Regardless, here it is with some editing, revising and updating. I have long been passionate about teaching
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POST FROM SAN CARLOS, SONORA, MX
Remember post cards? After 1901, postcards typically measured 3.5 x 5.5 inches, although variations in size exist. In the 1960s, some printers began producing 4 x 6 inch postcards. They had some kind of photo on the front, often of a place being visited or some attraction in that place. On the back was a
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SPREADING MANURE
This is for real, not a metaphor for the shit storms we have witnessed recently in several quarters. Those emit a different kind of smell from this job that I had in 1973. This post was inspired by someone asking what job I had that would surprise most people. I had just finished a
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COMMENT DIALOGUE
This is a follow on via a brief exchange between Kumud Ajmani and me in the comment section of this previous blog post: https://garygruber.com/racism-update/ AjmaniK on 2/4/23 Reply I remember Rodney King. I was getting ready to graduate from Grad school in VA when that happened. It was perhaps my first real ‘face to face’
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RACISM UPDATE
(Note: Some parts of this article were published previously. Repeating those for emphasis and adding a few updates.) The history of the United States is black, brown, olive, red and white. That is in alphabetic order of color. We are not color blind and white people have suppressed and oppressed people of color for centuries.
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WISDOM
Thousands of years of wisdom literature have used the techniques of oral storytelling that was then disseminated in written form. The collections include the wisdom literature from Sumeria and Babylonia, among the most ancient in the world, with the Sumerian documents dating back to the third millennium BC and and the Babylonian dating to the
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A GRATEFUL HEART
My Dad died from a sudden cardiac arrest in 1979 at the age of 67. That was 44 years ago. I was 42. I knew then I was in the gene pool for heart issues. My paternal grandmother also had heart problems and died at age 64, in 1952. My younger brother by 4 years,
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SHORT WALK, LONG THOUGHTS, DEEP CONNECTIONS
On a cold January afternoon, I step outside the front door and start on a walk, turning south for a block, then east, walking on hard pavement, a street with no sidewalks, a street lined on both sides with houses neatly tucked back from the curb, their double garages facing the street. A variety of
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OPTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS
(Note: This blog is a follow up to this previous one, garygruber.com/broken That piece focused on three systems, health care, education and politics. The premise is that these systems are broken and dysfunctional, in need of more than being reformed. They need to be transformed into different systems that are more efficient, effective and economical.
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