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“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Waywords produces a web of programs and media designed to improve our thinking in democratic action, in critical literacy, in global understanding. We provoke, inspire, and wrestle with the ambiguities and richness of human thinking, from times modern to ancient.
While offering serious educational support for those who want it, Waywords entertains and engages with surprising takes on a wide range of global topics, from Western social trends to modern mythological thinking.
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The Waywords podcasts and blog explore the workings of global literatures, language, and mythology through a social-epistemic rhetoric. Book reviews explore a wide range of genre, era, and region.
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Original prose includes verse, short fiction, work from the ImageMaker cosmogony, the Sam & Nadi English learners series, published collections like Unwoven, and audio drama.
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Programs to support students in lifelong literacy training, Advanced Placement® Literature, IB® Theory of Knowledge, philosophy, composition and critical reading, and English language learning.
Signpost – Pretty Gardens in Paint
Where we’ve been and where we’re going, and we take a pause in a museum gallery, too!
“Places / Everyone” by Jim Daniels
The stark lives of workers in 1980s Detroit, Daniels’s poetry is both distant and personal, barren but resonant.
“Three Simple Lines” by Natalie Goldberg
Goldberg’s hybrid travelogue/haiku mission is successful in each, revealing haiku’s wonder with authenticity. The opening chapter alone is worth the price of the book.
Three Pensée In Spring
Untitled, unstructured poems of usually five lines, the job of the pensée is little but to offer a reflection, a thought . . .
“Jayber Crow” by Wendell Berry –
Berry offers another in a series of well-written fictional memoirs of idyllic small town American in pastorale bliss, where the only thing wicked is the outside world of the 20th century and heterogeneity.
Trailer: Journey 6
Looking ahead at Season 6: Ursula K. Le Guin’s story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” and all the wrestling we do with dilemmas of ethics.
“Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth” by Diane Wolkstein
A philologist and storyteller takes on the reconstruction of the Sumerian tale of Inanna to powerful success, replete with enlightening essays to support her work.
Ch 2: Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism
Reflections on Chapter 2: And a growing Reading Guide for Arendt’s enormous history of 20th century totalitarianism, and what we might need to know from it.
“Inanna” by Emily H. Wilson
An original setting (!) and energized retelling of the most potent myth in ancient Sumer, fantasized unfortunately almost out of recognition.
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