Category Archives: Teaching

Reflections on the Prairie

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Kansas suddenly seems vast and enormous as you drive from one ridge toward another. Rolling prairie stretches out for miles in every direction. In many places you can look in every direction and see no houses, barns or much of anything else except the lines of scrub oak and cottonwood along the ditches and creeks. The sky wraps around you, boundless, as a swollen moon rises in the dusk, above endless acres of grazing range.

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Summer Snow

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Doc Arnett

These almost-lighter-than-air seeds of the cottonwood tree drift away, showing no sign of breeze. For four days or longer, there has been no stirring of the air, no fluttering of leaves. The seeds slide slowly to the earth in the oppressive heat, catch against an edge of turf, old posts or planks, whatever disrupts the smooth edge of the earth.

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Mo Better

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Along with finding out how small Highland, Kansas, was and how unprepared he was academically, he also found a teacher who noticed how quiet he was and how much he kept to himself. Continue reading →

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Sideways

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Doc Arnett

The change in my prayer approach hasn’t resulted in me thinking I am now God’s gift to teachers. It hasn’t made me rich nor brought me a flood of accolades. What it has done is given me more peace before, during and after the trainings. Continue reading →

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