Work on that Sacks piece that I handed out in class. (If you were absent, it's called My Own Life, New York Times, February 19, 2015) We will be looking at the rhetorical aspects of it in class as well as doing a little writing.
Friday is SAS. (Yay)
And your counseling sheets need to be signed and returned to your counselor by March 14th.
Love and Light and riding the waves...
Beltran
...Urinate
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for SAS on Friday I have a feeling that its going to be really good.
ReplyDeleteUrinate like you annotate!
ReplyDeleteUrinate!!!
ReplyDeleteThe word "notwithstanding" is a different way of saying "in spite of".
ReplyDelete"You cant stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."
ReplyDelete-Jon Kabat-Zinn
Sacks sure has a way with words
ReplyDeletemuch love for him. this piece was emotionally conflicting for me-like happiness and heartache were inseparably entwined.
DeleteSAS always looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteBooks are flooding in like a tsunami.
ReplyDeleteA gay bar in New York had an entire month of "Oliver Sacks Night" in 2016. The theme was inspired by a picture of the newly openly gay Oliver Sacks in a leather jacket on a motorcycle that was featured on the cover of his memoir "On the Move" in 1961 with his age being 27.
ReplyDeleteIMSAD (that Sacks is dead), but Oliver's arrangement and style is surprisingly powerful.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for SAS this Friday!
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to read his three other "final essays"
ReplyDeleteI don't annotate in the toilet though....
ReplyDeleteI learned new things about Oliver Sacks today !!
ReplyDelete30 years, a sign?
ReplyDeleteYes
DeleteCan't wait to find out what it's telling us, I'm ready for you 2047.
DeleteCan't wait for SAS this Friday!
ReplyDeletetoday's song holds a personal, special place in my heart. thank you for playing it!
ReplyDeleteI am amazed by the stoicism and grace with which Oliver faced his inevitable death.
ReplyDeleteThere is something profoundly honest about the writing of someone who knows their time on this earth is running out.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Simon Cowell would be to proud of our singing today ):
ReplyDeleteOliver's writing is the perfect thing to help someone get a new perspective on life
ReplyDeleteAnnotate like you urinate!!
ReplyDeleteHe is a man of vehement dispositions
ReplyDeleteI'm here, working hard but not feeling quite clever at the mo.
ReplyDeleteHe has experienced different life styles.
ReplyDeleteThe waves are you, you are the waves.
ReplyDeleteSacks reminds me of Morrie Schwartz
ReplyDeleteHis writing makes waves
ReplyDeleteOliver Sacks, even bringing light to his own death. What a man.
ReplyDeleteBill + Oliver = Boliver. The ship has sailed.
ReplyDeleteJust so happened to stumble upon this...
ReplyDelete"I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life"
-Oliver Sacks
Coincidence? Probably not.
Oliver sacks was not hallucinating while writing this brilliant article
ReplyDeletethe quote you shared about how no matter who the other person is we share the same sunset really put things into perspective. I'm happy that the people I go to school with can be open to these kinds of ideas.
ReplyDeleteSuper excited for Friday SAS , but really content with today lesson. It made me feel, well many emotions. What a rollercoaster of a day.
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