Platypus of Truth

My nighthaunt takes on a life of its own during a power outage.

I quit teaching after 12 years spent in 3 private schools across 2 states. This article comes as close as any I've found to saying why . I'll add that my therapist also told me that it was quite literally killing me even though I was a rock star teacher and loved the kids. American education, K-Phd., public, private and homeschool, is thoroughly corrupt, predatory, and extremely damaging to most students and most teachers.

Getting back into the swing of painting with Warhammer's easy to build banshees.

I was reading Catullus XVII and reminded of the words of Utnapishtim, that wisest of men: As Utnapishtim stood at the crossroads, a man came by driving an ass. Now it chanced that, because of the rains, the ass became stuck in the mud. The man drew out a stick and began beating the ass and it cried after the manner of an ass: "yeah! yeah!" As it was beaten, the ass struggled forward, nor would the man for an instant let the animal back up or himself lead it back, and so it sank deeper and deeper into the mud. Even as the mud rose above its shoulders and filled its nostrils the man continued to beat it and the ass continued his cry of "yeah! yeah!" The sun traveled across the sky, and at last the ass was overcome with exhaustion and died. Utnapishtim spoke to the man and said: "Surely, if you had led the animal back or around or had given it its own head it would have lived!" At these words, the man grew incensed and struck Utnapishtim with his stick sayi...

At first I thought, all despairing This must crush my spirit now, But I bore it and am bearing, Only do not ask me how. George MacDonald, Translations from the German