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The less these poets try to say something profound about nature, the better their poetry is.

must.... go.... on....

Key concept: America treats healthcare as a consumer product. This leads to market failures, high prices, rationed or unavailable access to care, eroding quality of care, and poorer health outcomes.

"Fallacia alia aliam trudit" -- one good trick strikes on another!

East Baton Rouge Parish's Big Read this year.

Highlights so far:

Joy Harjo's "Eat"

Diane Suess's "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

Appreciate the section on class rules. Classroom management doesn't get enough airtime in CI classrooms, I think. "If we make student engagement our priority, classroom management problems will disappear!"

"But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably... They must have guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused to believe -- that everything, alas, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chances, no retrn. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white news certainly as if it were the Rainbow and they its chldren."