October 2011
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The Ant and the Grasshopper
Æsop. (Sixth century B.C.) Fables. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
The Ant and the Grasshopper
IN a field one summer’s day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart’s content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest.
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“Why not come and chat with me,” said the Grasshopper, “instead of toiling and moiling in...
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Notes from Anna Deavere Smith's Letters to a Young...
Discipline
“Part of earning that title ‘artist’ is the quality of your interaction with others: how much you manage, as I said about presence, to activate the desires and fears of others through—and here’s a new idea—the use of metaphors and fictions. This does not require fame and fortune. You can do this in your family, at your school, at your church, in your community.
We who...
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Remembering Matthew Shepard
When I scheduled my classes, I didn’t realize that I would start teaching The Laramie Project on the 13th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s death. What is remembered lives…
Excerpts from Losing Matt Shepard by Beth Loffreda
“On the night of October 6th, 1998, Matt Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student, stopped in at the Fireside Bar in downtown Laramie...
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“Jamie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the back-yard. ...”
– Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Are Watching God
