My fourth week of teaching, finished.
This may be my last post. I'm not sure how this dude will react but he messaged me finally after over a year of talking to his wife. I guess I wanted to post this on the internet so when the police find my dead ass corps on the front steps of my apartment they will have something to go off of. Then again if I happen to die of something completely unrelated I hope he doesn't get charged with my murder because of this post...
Marriage is such a strange thing.
When it's consensual I feel like it is a very beautiful thing. Maybe the greatest thing a human can do...or maybe parenting is the greatest, or maybe all truth is relative and we should all only speak in "I" statements.
But when it isn't consensual it can be a dangerous, possessive, oppressive, depressing, aggressive, and shame-filling institution.
But what the fuck do I know I've never spent an hour of my 29 years married. I can only go by the things I've experienced through observation and listening to others.
Marriage is work, that's all married people seem to say, it's work but it's worth it...I'm not so certain, obviously I'm not or I would have proposed to at least one of my exes rather than self destruct the relationships. I've only seen one marriage I envy...one.
And that one doesn't look like work, but then again if you find a job you love you'll never work a day in your life as they say... Or maybe I never see behind the curtain.
Of course, I finally find the job of my dreams and I'm getting better and better at it. I'm finally making semi decent money, I'm living in a great area of town, and I've met a woman who seems to understand me on a level I want and likes being around me almost as much as I like being around her... as soon as life seems to be falling into place in my 30's I'm about to be murdered.
The universe has a way of swinging the pendulum back.
Interim grades were due Friday. We didn't have kids that day but we did have some trainings. There is always some good things I can pull from any training even if it is just one sentence.
It's strange to me how we always seem to have fact based peer reviewed research evidence for issues and we never seem to invest in solutions. Climate Change is a fact and we still blast our air conditions in skyscrapers down to our vehicles. Brain development under stress is proven to have long term impacts on people putting them at higher risks for incarceration and poverty yet we still don't intervene.
It's almost as if we prefer it this way. It's as if society likes our poor neighborhoods poor, our inner city schools failing, and our black citizens murdered by police.
There is no excuse, there wan't no reason things are this way. This week our senate just approved a $700 billion policy for the military spending in 2018. $700 billion dollars. Even if we cut that in half and invested it in resources for our low income areas of the nations there would still be $350 billion dollars for the military. We wouldn't need this much military defense if our president wasn't picking fights with North Korea and Russia. There aint no reason, we clearly have the funds. Our government has more than enough money, obviously they could provide healthcare they could provide education and mental health resources.
Travis is here now so rant over.
Goldlink - Crew
This may be my last post. I'm not sure how this dude will react but he messaged me finally after over a year of talking to his wife. I guess I wanted to post this on the internet so when the police find my dead ass corps on the front steps of my apartment they will have something to go off of. Then again if I happen to die of something completely unrelated I hope he doesn't get charged with my murder because of this post...
Marriage is such a strange thing.
When it's consensual I feel like it is a very beautiful thing. Maybe the greatest thing a human can do...or maybe parenting is the greatest, or maybe all truth is relative and we should all only speak in "I" statements.
But when it isn't consensual it can be a dangerous, possessive, oppressive, depressing, aggressive, and shame-filling institution.
But what the fuck do I know I've never spent an hour of my 29 years married. I can only go by the things I've experienced through observation and listening to others.
Marriage is work, that's all married people seem to say, it's work but it's worth it...I'm not so certain, obviously I'm not or I would have proposed to at least one of my exes rather than self destruct the relationships. I've only seen one marriage I envy...one.
And that one doesn't look like work, but then again if you find a job you love you'll never work a day in your life as they say... Or maybe I never see behind the curtain.
Of course, I finally find the job of my dreams and I'm getting better and better at it. I'm finally making semi decent money, I'm living in a great area of town, and I've met a woman who seems to understand me on a level I want and likes being around me almost as much as I like being around her... as soon as life seems to be falling into place in my 30's I'm about to be murdered.
The universe has a way of swinging the pendulum back.
Interim grades were due Friday. We didn't have kids that day but we did have some trainings. There is always some good things I can pull from any training even if it is just one sentence.
— Adam (@ZMorris93) September 22, 2017This video is so important not just for teachers, or parents, but for citizens voting for policy in our country. For people in the world to understand that not all people are created equally, that equal and fair are not the same thing. poverty is systemic, it can't be solved with a law, or opportunities, or hand outs, it's something much, much deeper than that. It takes healing, it takes educating, and it takes patience. Our prisons are filled with hurt humans. Adults who as children never learned healthy strategies to process emotions or weren't able to develop because of their environment and the way their fight, flight, or freeze cooping mechanisms manifested while growing up. If we want to solve crime rates, poverty rates, mental health rates, unemployment rates, illegal drug use, and healthcare costs then we need to invest in our young citizens in the low socioeconomic demographics. We need to make sure each community has enough resources to make sure every need is met. Police taking the time to walk their beat and build friendships in the community, schools with resources enough for psychologist, interventions and resource rooms, grocery stores with affordable healthy options that give growing bodies the nutrition they need to develop optimally along with giving energy to the adults who need to work longer days and raise children in one parent households with less education providing fewer job opportunities.
It's strange to me how we always seem to have fact based peer reviewed research evidence for issues and we never seem to invest in solutions. Climate Change is a fact and we still blast our air conditions in skyscrapers down to our vehicles. Brain development under stress is proven to have long term impacts on people putting them at higher risks for incarceration and poverty yet we still don't intervene.
It's almost as if we prefer it this way. It's as if society likes our poor neighborhoods poor, our inner city schools failing, and our black citizens murdered by police.
There is no excuse, there wan't no reason things are this way. This week our senate just approved a $700 billion policy for the military spending in 2018. $700 billion dollars. Even if we cut that in half and invested it in resources for our low income areas of the nations there would still be $350 billion dollars for the military. We wouldn't need this much military defense if our president wasn't picking fights with North Korea and Russia. There aint no reason, we clearly have the funds. Our government has more than enough money, obviously they could provide healthcare they could provide education and mental health resources.
Travis is here now so rant over.
Goldlink - Crew