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Some Ruminations (not about teaching)

Feb. 12, 2013 It's 11:10 a.m. I'm sitting on a pool deck in Miami Beach. Two of my children      cavort in the water. The weather report says 27 degrees Celsius but there's a late morning breeze and scattered clouds that occasionally block the sun. I'm starting the middle of the second week of our February vacation. The weather app on my phone informs me that it's still raining in Quito, sunny in Miami, dead winter in Calgary, Boston and NY. I send warm rays of sunshine to the north, Great White and otherwise. How do I unravel a childhood to get at the adolescent - pre- and young adult - that lies dormant inside me? My family is no help. My memories are closed off locked somewhere: Access denied. No journal or diary to read. No love letters to remember. No photographs to help      jar my poor memory,      atrophied,      lost in space and time. So, I must look to the present. The only way to the past. But, then again, maybe