Examining Education in 2020
This was my first series of essays delving into education as a system and the roles of students and educators. Compared to later essays, they are more expository and less inviting of the reader to anchor their reading in their own experiences.
Journeys for the Well-Intentioned
This next series attempts to bring the reader’s own lived experiences into the essay. I want the reader to “put in the work” to anchor their reading with something that’s concrete and meaningful to them. From this foundation we can go on a journey together to see what new thinking we can develop together.
Instruments
This series falls more into a poetic form than the essays above. Ultimately, they should feel like they are sourced from the same place as the others, but poetry has a way of penetrating deeper and evoking a greater response in us than reading an essay. Maurice Nicoll might say that poetry “falls on a different center” than an essay might.
The Sedra
This was my first attempt at creative fiction writing. The Preface goes into the backstory, so start there if you’re curious how it came about. Like poetry, I think fables land differently than essays. Good fables offer a clear message. Great fables have a deeper message that lands even when you don’t realize that it did.