Personal summary:
EdK is a reading specialist and statistics teacher in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, a former Landis Valley Project teacher who has met the Belsnickel and who once taught seventh graders the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost, and Richard Wilbur in classes conducted in a rustic yellow barn. He has a background degree in English, a graduate degree in reading education, and has completed additional studies in mathematics, statistics education, and accounting. He's interested in bicycling, hiking, astronomy, geography, literacy education, and mathematics education, and also engaged by traditional stories and ballads, history, language history, writing, watershed investigations, and educational applications of technology. His Wikipedia contributions have generally related to the geographic, historic, and cultural landscape of southeastern Pennsylvania and southwestern Puerto Rico, but sometimes stray further.
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few. (Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes)
Know what's weird? Day by day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything is different. (Calvin in Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes)
It's a magical world, Hobbes ol buddy. . . let's go exploring. (These words from the final panel of Calvin and Hobbes gently suggest the path we may continue to follow.)
Admovere Oculis Distantia Sidera Nostris. Ovid: They brought the distant stars closer to our eyes.
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea;
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea. Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers
Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað: from the Old English poem Battle of Maldon (based on battle fought in 991) meaning "Thought shall be the surer, heart the keener, courage shall be the greater, as our strength lessens."
Known Some Call Is Air Am : though these words from House of Leaves appear to be random, the phrase is phonetically equivalent to the Latin expression "Non sum qualis eram," meaning "I am not as I was."
Wyrd bið ful aræd: from the Old English poem The Wanderer, meaning "Fate remains wholly inexorable" or "Destiny is everything." See Wikipedia article Wyrd for more information.
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