My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins – now the crows own the field.

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It’s that simple.

So many QBs throw the ball down the field, that’s wrong. Watch Aaron Rodger throw it up the field