No study of Native American culture is complete without the inspirational sounds of Navajo flutist Carlos Nakai. The music evokes images from our collective unconscious and sets up a friendly environment for new students. Here are some images that emerged from a half hour of listening and writing: I am in a vast plain and wild nature and I can […]
A Day of Tragedy When I got up this morning, I wanted to believe yesterday’s happening was a nightmare. But when I turned on the TV the news was still going on. What a horrendous affair it is. It is beyond human expectation. I can’t believe such people exist; they cause terrible tragedy. When I think of the innocent […]
Ten years ago at 9:00 a.m. I was in my classroom in Port Chester, N.Y. teaching English to 20+ foreign born adults as these New Yorkers gazed up into the lower Manhattan skyline speechless and forever changed…. I notice Jose, the computer instructor, standing silently in the doorway of my classroom. Walkman in hand, “What’s going on, Jose?” “A plane just crashed into the […]