complexifying should

Time for my dad’s story :) . First grade, so 1952ish? First day. At dinner, either chemist father or teacher mother asks: “Well [now-dad], how was school?”
[n-d] “They make you read ONE WORD AT. A. TIME. Can’t learn ANYTHING that way-!”

Amazing he persevered through his PhD after that rocky start!

it takes 10 minutes to wash the dishes

first friday of october 2025, an audit

things i lost track of today, october 3 2025, in no order: washing the dishes going swimming (working out) hanging out with God / devotional time things i made happen today, in no order: reviewing all my emancipatory pedagogy notes and pulling out what…

(from the one who -does- comprehend, not the darkness!)

it also carries connotations of wrapping your <arms, brain, something> around… which some days when i read the passage gives me a hug

royal footsteps

A phone-photograph doesn’t see with eyes, it merely captures raw visual experience. So I don’t know whether you can find my luxuriant pathway, crushing violets in Lydia’s purple and sunshine stored in dandelions as I stride.

“suburb”

It’s early on Saturday. I’m waiting outside my shoe repair shop. I assume he’s gone to the store, like last time — there’s only him, as far as I can tell from Saturday mornings. Shoe repair is one of the things I’m fussy about: I know what I want to happen, and artist-artisans are the…

I thought that there was an exemption, though, much like that for Olympic basketball players-? Wouldn’t we want to see the most… <choose your adjective> compete?

bourgeoise adjustments

begun Nov 22, 2022 — in Chestnut Hill, MA (aka Boston) — completed Apr 2, 2025 — in Evanston, IL (aka Chicago) — because PhD life is a series of interruptions in whatever personal sensemaking one might be doing I married a man 15 years my senior. The year we married, we also…

NONSENSE POLL No. 2. Part of a weekly series. Choose one.

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what i’m (going to be) up to

Write a short (500 word) essay addressed to a non-specialized audience describing your research question/thesis. What are you planning to do? Why is it important? To whom is it important? Present this in class and submit it here. Yeah, it's been plenty of minutes since…

A QR code for those of us hearing Grant’s paper to respond creatively to it.

I didn’t capture his final slide, a haiku response! Guess you’ll have to track him down. 😜

Grant Showalter-Swanson and a title slide for “Theopoetics and Praxis: Imagination and Poetic Expression as God-Talk” in the midst of a convention center room

Vibing with @gtswanson88.bsky.social ‘s first EVAR #aar talk, “Theopoetics and Praxis” 🤩 #sblaar2024

September 2024 Issue #88 Alan Yue Incomplete Blues There are frays in the way a child lets a parent go.               Bb7 I drop a stone off t…

well, hello bsky-world!
guess i’ll start with something of mine that’s in the Sept 2024 issue of Neologism Poetry Journal —

www.neologismpoetry.com/September-20...

“I’m just happy to be here. Hope I can help the ball club.” — Nuke LaLoosh, in Bull Durham

Back at the turn of the century, there was a great quote from a hotelier post-ALA conference — something like, “We love librarians! You’re quiet, you pay on time, and you drink like fish.” But I’m well into my Imperial cider, so I might not have the accurate quote. 😉

*Definitely* good to go into. They are fussy beasts, speak their own languageS, and -nobody- (even in IT) wants to deal. I never tell people I used to fix printers. It’s worse than telling them I used to fix PCs. 🙃😜

oh good! i can sit by you in the cool kids section & drink my box of milk 🥛🥛