“a rose for empathy can my own beauty reflect off glass again the pain subsides like matted walls like hospital halls like gas and pills and sass never can I dance in balls or prance through malls my pelvic gird’ survives tacked back intact i sigh relieved my paralysis stops there died before my eyes the drunk in fact who crashed and thrashed and mashed in flee of cops by grace i stay a higher vertebrate in this ordered peck of vine and line still mine my skin and brain remain not celibate those organs large and whole and sexed and fine the drunk fared worse in life in death in time my paraplegia dared curse his crime not mine” EmpathyDisabilityDrunk DrivingHuman SexualityParaplegic Author:Miles Garrett
“Two-sentence horror story: I woke up in a country founded on the genocide of native peoples and the enslavement of imported ones. I could not find my way back to sleep.” HorrorSlaveryGenocideEnslavementSlavery QuotesHorror StoryEnslaved Quotes Author:Miles Garrett
“To our nation’s principals and superintendents, where hides your series of leadership talks. And why? I find your performance lackluster at best. For the love of God, pick up Alfie Kohn’s book, which was published over three decades ago, and do something about it. Be better. You should foster, facilitate, not gatekeep. Demand excellence over the entirety of your school grounds from start to finish of every single school day. Excellence, and nothing less. Not for our children’s future. For their now.” EducationEducational QuotesSuperintendentsPrincipalsEducational Leadership Book:Executive Leadership: A Warfighter's Perspective Source: Executive Leadership: A Warfighter's Perspective