Category: Thoughts

My Thumb

I stole a writing exercise from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance where you have your students write about their thumb as an idea instigator and diving board to jump off into the pool of your creativity. They’re told to keep writing for an allotted time and if they can’t think of anything else […]

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The Rite of Passage

A Rite of passage is a celebration which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change of status in society. (Wikipedia) In our society, we have graduation ceremonies for the young and retirement ceremonies for the elders. We march our young ones up with the songs written in the […]

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Past 1,000 hits….

1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. In most English-speaking countries, it is often written with a comma separating the thousands unit: 1,000. It may also be described as the short thousand in historical discussion of medieval contexts where it might be confused with the Germanicconcept of the “long thousand” (1200). 1000 is the smallest number that generates three primes in the fastest way […]

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