Categories: Dobel Street, Metro Detroit
Learned enough to teach about it
I'm changing professions.
It won't happen overnight. It could take three or more years.
But I'm determined to do it.
The application process began last week. The plan is to enroll at Wayne State University this fall, to attain my master's degree in teaching and to move into a classroom setting before I turn 50.
I've seen wild wallabies in Western Australia; heard lions roar during the night in Mombasa, Kenya; offered a silent salute to the Arizona Memorial while shipping out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; drank a Singapore Sling in Singapore; ate Thai food in Thailand.
I've also witnessed some of the worst poverty on the planet, which made me feel guilty for whining about eating breaded Spam during my youth on Dobel Street.
I’ve lived a lot during my 47 years and, as a result, have a lot to pass on -- to teach.
I want more than anything to tell that kid on Detroit’s east side today that there’s a great big world out there and he can get out to see it -- just like I did so many years ago.
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· http://lacatholicworker.org How do you purpose they "get out and see it"? Hopefully you are NOT suggesting that they join the U.S. Imperial War Machine. That would be a tragic error. They would become nothing but cannon fodder for the tyrannical plutocracy and their endless "war on terror." (besides, war is nothing but terrorism with a larger budget.) With suicide rates among active duty military personnel and recent veterans of both Iraq and Afghanistan wars/occupations far surpassing recent combat fatalities, and PTSD affecting individuals at astronomical rates, that type of encouragement would not only be tragic, but shameful and immoral. I have to believe you have better guidance than that to offer. Correct?
Peace, Mike W.
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01/29/12 @ 15:53 · http://lacatholicworker.org Peace, Mike W.
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