Kelly,
Want some blooming beauty to grace your home for Spring? Plant pansies. Directions (1) stop saying you don’t have a green thumb – if it’s true, why do you go on reinforcing the belief for that is all it is? (2) plan them in a pot with premeum (sp) potting soil and put them in full sun. Water, fertilize, and enjoy.
                                                         Allen

Kelly,
I am compiling a list of what I taught and will leave it tonight. I am thinking/writing so many stuffs at the same time–including stuff on why we humans name – what does it mean, this naming? One line that came to me last night as I wrote was : The need to name is just a wish to tame. And then some ( a new favorite phrase-God name- that I just love – I probably will flog it to death). Instead of saying “God” I’ve come up with something else: Alice. It’s much prettier.
                                                             Allen

Kelly,
Some novels and authors and films I like:
The Inheritor
The Little Prince
Elmer Gantry
Shane
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Night of the Iguana
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (I left a copy of this on your desk. Watch it yet?)
poets
Whitman, Walt
Emily Dickinson
e e cummings
Frost
T.S. Eliot
E A Robinson

Kelly,                                         5/16/01
Me: Humor: sense of unfairness, injustice. In the 3rd grade – I was 8, I read Chief Black Hawk. Afterwards, for the first time, I thought of me and my fellow American as “white men” as in (just before I scalped them) “Die White Men.” More to come.
                                                                Allen           p.s. Have you read Fern Hill?

Kelly,                                        Tues 5/22/01
As I watched “Antiques Roadshow” on PBS last night – held in Tulsa, Okla – they switched focus to the Gilcrease (sp?) Museum of American Art and there was the original of the print I loaned you of Black Hawk & Rolling Thunder. Wow. 
                                                                  
                                                               Allen 

Kelly,
Sat night a friend/fellow teacher from Seattle called me – I told him about your [wonderful class of 6th graders]  Sixers and he said that he, as permanent sub, taught a 6th grade class for three months – loved it. “They haven’t lost their innocence yet,” he said.
                                                                Allen