I just discovered Reddit for some reason. I am a late bloomer I guess.

Did you spend your Saturday morning converting measurements of ionized radiation exposure or are you normal

Cat with grimace

She had dental surgery many years ago and sometimes her gum flap will get caught on one of the few teeth she has left, making her look like a cat doing a Di Nero impression

RuPaul + Cat

Sick again :c

Read it with your CHEST

I haven’t done aerial in two months now, but I’ve been trying to get back into some movement practice. Now I’m sick again 😂
Convinced chest opening and upper thoracic spine mobility will save me in more ways than 1

#friday #cat

Sound on to hear a #chicken literally laughing at her flockmates because she got a juicy grub out of the ground and they didn’t (this is mid victory lap around the yard)
#tinyhomestead #hens #happybird

Ok last one

When the jazz hours start to hit

If a cat went on a roller coaster

A gloved hand holding a small yellow snail shell in the foreground. The background are three golden hens (buff orpington) and two shiny black hens (French copper maran)

53 degrees (F) after a snow melt means compost turning and ivy pulling. The hens are loving it. I don’t mind their help scratching up the raised bed this time of year.

Also those snow prints are from the two raccoons who were fighting in our tulip poplar early this morning

Sorry but I canceled class. A delay til 10 when my classes start at 10 just isn’t hitting when I and all my students were hoping for a snow day… so a snow day we shall have.

I don’t actually cry down there but I think about it often after classes. Teaching is full of so many ups and downs.

Where I go at the end of class to have a good cry

#teaching #teacherwin #adjunct #liberalarts #socialchange #theory

The metaphor isn’t perfect, and here I embellished a little from what the original said. I do think it’s an impactful way for thinking about how 1) individuals problems are connected to structural issues and 2) we all have roles to fill to make small steps towards larger transformation.

You & the network of resources that grew out of consciousness raising about the problem now can work to address some of the root of the structural issues in the town that caused the problem of the babies floating down the river.

After awareness of the issue grows, more people offer new forms of help. You make it up river to find there is a town where they have been experiencing extreme food insecurity & poverty & they decided that the babies in town would have a better life down river where there was more food.

As the babies continue to float down the river, the passerby jumps in the river to help. You decide someone must go UP RIVER to discover the source of the babies.
You get out of the river and start walking, telling every person you come pass about the problem you’re trying to solve.

The metaphor comes from social change theory and leadership theory (I forget where I read it many years ago now).

You’re walking along a river & you see a baby floating down the river. You stop to rescue it, but promptly see another baby floating down, & another.
You call to a passerby for help…

Here’s a first for a Monday: waking up to an email from a student who wants to THANK ME FOR A LESSON I TAUGHT LAST WEEK.

He said that a metaphor I used in the lesson on “the sociological imagination” really stuck with him so much that he shared it with his group for his Honors class project.

Saturday morning #waffleparty #severance

The ice rain is both unpleasant and surreal much like our current timeline
#weatherupdate #baltimore

White tabby cat

Forgot I took this last night… the wide angle lens distorted her face because she was laying like 4” from my face.
Her, watching me watch Drag Race.
#cat #familiar

“Is it feeling awfully warm in here or is that just me?”

Accurate depiction of me after the third class of the day when two students stayed after to engage with me more personally and one of them says I am a good teacher

Thank god actually talking to my students made this better and not worse.