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Shop whistle blows keeping time chiming for the bosses dime Grit of the mill Grinding teeth But life tastes better On tongues dripped in Saffron sips Of those who swim In the Spirit to go As time sporks into Splinters of Possibilities unknown #smallpoems
Greg McVerryIf you allow magic In You will swirl in art abound No either Or just Both and AND Colors carried on Sounds of One. #smallpoems
Greg McVerryLeesa May Mitchell May your temporal body feed gardens worthy of your righteous glory and delicate beauty for your soul dances to music played on tin foil instruments to the Beat of Black Point waves carried from Kingston ain't nobody I let steal my my kids but you (Well... Robin too but it's your funeral, so keep them....please) #smallpoems
Greg McVerryI am but a pawn pushing bishops on a board of blindfolded kings #smallpoems
Greg McVerrytwo bookends of death not robbed by virus but Forgotten goodbyes February 2020 Left shelf: Funeral. Kelly's got two rules: Bar open late and a hotel pool Celebrate a life, not drown in sorrow Mix in McVerry's.... it's on Mitchell Funeral, to boot We gotta party. A life well lived should not get wallowed in sorrow but song and Whiskey In fact Two got pinched
Greg McVerryExplaining my "No Hungry Caterpillar Rule" to #edu506 and #edu307 students: There are soo many other books out there. It is well illustrated and a classic...but that means your students have seen it and the book isn't really that good at sequencing, butterfly life cycle, and is void of plot. ...but its really just too many years of teacher prep. It's like th
Greg McVerryJust a reminder about the language we use around #literacy as we look to celebrate the literate lives of #BlackHistoryMonth The idea of vocabulary and "30 year language gap" needs revisiting: https://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2015/11/is-the-30-million-word-gap-a-stat-we-should-be-using/ The Black home, in all its variety and variance from the single story of "fa
Greg McVerryHey #walkmyworld check out this reflection of our campers at @scsu and @cfalct on answering "Who are we" rather than "Who am I?" http://tech-4-teens.club/2021/02/12/creating-value-through-digital-storytelling/
Greg McVerryHello #walkmyworld from CT we will be joining you from my #edu106 class and our #tech4teens camp. Campers probaly will not be on Twitter and it is optional for my students. We will have an RSS feed https://tech-4-teens.club/our-feed/
Greg McVerrydawn awakens. Our sun glistens time frozen in fading frost For trees, leaves long fallen, speak today of poetry A cadence carried on weight of shrinking shadows in the prosody of our politic. #smallpoems #clmooc
Greg McVerryToday felt like a collective day of music not seen in a long time in human history. so many songs released and about the inauguration.
Greg McVerryCheck out some interesting picking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pUdUX5Gagc and percussive use of strings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLF-f4kUtAw
Greg McVerryCurl your grasp around rhythm like a dream breaking dawn for it slips away with light of first thought. #smallpoems #ukulele
Greg McVerryPower found holding destinies close. Moirae's Gentle touch opens scales to sound birds escaping Wings beat in percussive flicks of life fit in fingers cutting against time. #smallpoems #ukulele
Greg McVerryhttps://www.polygon.com/22220762/best-books-2020-sci-fi-fantasy
Greg McVerryMika should pull out the "I told you so" card. She was only @morningjoe host who predicted this from the beginning.
Greg McVerryTrying Dire Wolf on the #ukulele a slow swing but fast chord changes Struggling to get to the Bb from G and then to F in a four count, Forget rsndom E thrown in for good measure. only really hit E with a Barre note,
Greg McVerryFingers fold in familiar patterns until arachnid appendages ascend, then descend on fret board in steady bends clawing through arpeggios #ukulele #smallpoems about getting fingers to find patterns that always existed
Greg McVerryListening to the Ka'au Crater Boys to ride on ocean of arpeggios as I harp on how you give just have to swim in the sounds you already have on the #ukulele
Greg McVerryI just finished #Ukulele 102 – Week 1: Warming Up Your Ukulele https://ukuleleunderground.com/courses/ukulele-102-2017/ukulele-102-week-1-warming-up-your-ukulele/
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