I hope you can click on these to see him.

If you click on an image you enlarge it enough to see the birds.
I was in a place rich with wild bird life.










































































































































And it was cold wind.

I took my new camera and tried to find something interesting.
I like these best. At the moment.

These are all from a beach in Ventura, Ca pretty close to the power plant that is home to egrets, pelicans, terns, hawks, blue herons, sandpipers, seagulls, ducks and others that I am not entirely sure about.

All of them....

And it was cold wind.

I took my new camera and tried to find something interesting.
I like these best. At the moment:

These are all from a beach in Ventura pretty close to the power plant that is home to egrets, pelicans, terns, hawks, blue herons, sandpipers, seagulls, ducks and others that I am not entirely sure about.

If you can pitch a ball, it moving through the eye of a needle, all the skills that you use to throw the slider or the curve can be translated into the classroom as how you angle the eraser at the bubble you mis marked and are now carefully erasing COMPLETELY so that the scan-tron can get an accurate measure of your ability.

If you can fold an origami koala bear out of a dollar bill then you probably have the dexterity and the kind of talent that can collate the class test booklets arranging them here in the test center, thank you in advance for helping us with the core mission, arranging for our success. Artful.

If you can play an instrument or have the potentials to see the mathematical relationships in the beauty of the compositions of Beethoven soaring into your mind and heart as immortal then possibly you can write the six sentences required for the perfect paragraph on what you did this Christmas using the preposition phrase, adverbial clauses, subordinate clause, introductory adverbial subordinating clause, the santa clause and the dangling participle dissected so that we can sing, dance, hum and enjoy the beauty of your writing score on our District test as we examine it in the data pile.

If you can feel a skateboard under you like riding the waves on Doheny, Rincon, Trestles, San Onfre, can grind, ollie, manual, kick-flip then you may have the capacities to carry these booklets to each class and assist your teacher in lugging down the textbooks. Certainly the 45 pound backpack full of your texts that we now require will be something we can count on you to handle. Especially on the days it rains or smoke is out in your air as you eat out with 4000 of your peers stuffed into the three picnic table space we provide you outside.

If you can draw your favorite linebacker, TV personalities, like to do line drawings of what the teacher said or need to draw to represent the meanings of the words or to grasp and visualize that would be so very good because down this blind alley we'll surely need you to draw the map back out again as we ask you to draw a cartoon for our newest edition of "Tests Saves" in the school bulletin.

If you can hum or sing out in the darkness and grasp the notes and know the tune you can help us think up the song we will be singing this year at the inspirational prep rally, not for the child we almost lost to the car accident, no we mean the song about how this year we are all going to "try our best" and do well on this allimportant state test, NO MATTER WHAT.

If inside of technology you are as if inside the dendrites and synapses of the mind of a man speaking across a universe of meanings like the light in the darkest hole, you can help us install this canned workbook drill and kill for your peers and firewall all our potentials so that we can lead them to our water hole and force them to drink of the importance of this technology "practice". You can help us establish the "norms." We can certainly use your vision to blind their's.

If you can dance in the dream of bringing to our eyes the sensual pleasure of every feeling man, how through the body he has felt through the winds of time every meaning, you can just sit still and hold your arms, legs, body in this plastic Formica chair with very nice posture for 6 hour stretches listening to me guide you in the importance of this position during the demonstration of what you really know on this test given to prove it.

If you can hear, see, feel, taste, intuit, dance, draw, march, mine, whirl, envision, touch.... then please, please , please explain to someone how to design a few tests so that children might be able to be seen for these things you know in ways that knowing can be....as well as the very, very, very few limiting ways of test makers who seemingly lack any of them now. They need you sooooo as that design devoid of multiple intelligence tests that define schools as places that can only see with blind eyes.

I went walking in the rain tonight for a long time.
After eating at an restaurant called Salvatore's. San Diego is really changed.
I'm staying at the US Grant and it's restored. I'm tagging along to a conference CSBA, just to recover from a few hard weeks. I'm never in this kind of hotel. It's really fancy the nice door guy told me that a tribe renovated this, but even though he said the tribe five times I can't recall.
I'm wanting to share my pictures of the room.


Time to sleep.