Responses and Starbucks...

As we were sitting in seminar tonight, I was drinking my Starbucks pumpkin spice latte and happened to look down at the poem on the cup. It seems to fit with both things we've talked about in class and things that have been written in this blog (not in a negative way, but just FITS). The poem is called "The Way I See It" by Desi Di Nardo:

"The way I see it
Isn't necessarily
The way you see it
Or the way it is
Or ought to be
What's more important
Is that we're all
Looking for it
And a way to see it"

I actually think I was inspired by Starbucks... I'm considering hanging this up in my future classroom. It fits for many situations. It can be paired with the subject of English easily (not just because it's a poem) and may help us to keep an open-mind, not only to each other as peers, but also to our students and their opinions and readings. Replace the first few "it"'s with English, with MTV, with 'crap reading'... replace the last few with knowledge... or patience... or art or... you choose.