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Howard is a guy from Sunnyvale, California, USA
After teaching 7 years at one of the "worst" public high schools in L.A., I am now a founding member of the history department at King's Academy, Amman, Jordan. "To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."
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This poem (Emily Dickinson's #1113) helped me get through many lonely, hopeless nights. "What are the sinews of such cordage for / Except to bear"?
(The painting is Diego Rivera's The Flower Carrier. To me, it's an eloquent statement about the burden placed on the poor by the rich. It says that even something as light and beautiful as a flower can become an instrument of oppression.)
