"I have a compulsion to wander and a compulsion to return—
a homing instinct like a migrating bird"
--Bruce Chatwin
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The girls and I are getting away. We can't afford it, we might not all fit in the car, and we will probably be doing homework the whole way there and back, but by God, I'm determined to have a good time. Kansas City, here we come.
By: Brendan Constantine The Opposites Game for Patricia Maisch This day my students and I play the Opposites Game with a line from Emily Dickinson. My life had stood a loaded gun , it goes and I write it on the board, pausing so they can call out the antonyms – My Your Life Death Had stood ? Will sit A Many Loaded Empty Gun ? Gun. For a moment, very much like the one between lightning and it’s sound, the children just stare at me, and then it comes, a flurry, a hail storm of answers – Flower, says one. No, Book, says another. That's stupid, cries a third, the opposite of a gun is a pillow. Or maybe a hug, but not a book, no way is it a book. With this, the others gather their thoughts and suddenly it’s a shouting match. No one can agree, for every student there’s a final answer. It's a song, a prayer, I mean a promise, like a wedding ring, and later a baby. Or what’s that p
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