While cleaning out our storage room of old magazines, financial records that might should be in a safe deposit box, worn out bed sheets, and a fifty-year accumulation of the miscellaneous, I found several small paper boxes that our grandchildren had made when in middle school. They were products of a three or four week fad among their friends. They represent a wonderful example of learning by observing, by doing. This method is the fundamental way of accruing knowledge: I am speaking of an intimate relationship between human teacher and the student learner. Those same … Continue reading Reverse Engineering by Fred Wilbur →
Through a dimly lit haze, I see myself in my adult son’s psych ward room, gathering his things into a paper bag so we can check out. I place his clothes, extra pair of shoes, personal items into a grocery sack because the beautiful twilight iridescent duffle bag (mine) that they arrived in seven days prior has now gone missing according to the nursing staff. On the flat wooden rail atop the half wall separating the wash sink from his sleeping area is a tiled, rectangular trivet sort of thing. “Nick,” I say, “is this … Continue reading The Trivet by Nancy Halgren →
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