Tag: frustration
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The Gradebook of Small Griefs
We came for chalk and the sound of a question landing,for the slow bloom of a student’s face when a hard thing suddenly makes sense.We came with lesson plans like little ships and optimism folded into our pockets,and somewhere between the photocopier and the meeting room the compass got nicked. The salary letter arrives as…
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An Age of Cheap Outrage
Outrage is on sale everywhere,stacked high in the bargain bins,brightly packaged, easy to grab. Understanding sits on the top shelf,unlabelled, unadvertised,requiring a ladder no one bothers to fetch. So we keep choosing the thingthat costs nothing upfrontand everything later.
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The Well Best Forgotten
At the edge of townthere’s a well everyone swearsthey don’t visit.Too dark,too deep,too full of thingsthat were never meant to be pulledinto daylight. But every nightyou can hear the rope creak,the bucket scraping stone,the hush of neighboursleaning over the rimto see what’s floating there. They say the well shows truths.They say it reveals dangersbefore they…