September 2021

01

When the teacher is ready,
she waits for the students to appear.
It doesn't mean a thing
that she has 32 kids in her classroom.

Through four years of high school,
I learned to type.
It was the most valuable gift
I have ever received.
But I cringe thinking about 
all those good people
banging their heads against me
in all those classes
that were required for graduation.
I was not ready
for anything they were selling.

The same could be said for college
and seminary.

I began to learn what I needed to know
on my own
when I walked into my first parish.
I have devoured book after book
all my professional life.

I've kept three or four books going
for the last fifty plus years.
And none of the things I have been
reading about
were offered in any of the schools
I attended.

Makes me wonder what first grade, etc.,
could have been.
Montessori may have been the answer.
But here we are.
Reading about Taoism
and Calphalon cookware.