Four Tao philosophers as cedar waxwings
chat on a February berrybush
in sun, and I am one.
Such merriment and such sobriety---
the small wild fruit on the tall stalk---
was this not always my true style?
Above an elegance of snow, beneath
a silk-blue sky a brotherhood of four
birds. Can you mistake us?
To sun, to feast, and to converse
and all together---for this I have abandoned
all my other lives.
---Robert Francis
Kristina's Poster Project
What's it mean to be Seventeen?
About Me
- Dr. Nikola Hobbel
- Nikola Hobbel researches the intersections of educational policy, multiculturalism, and curriculum. Her work includes analyses of the standards movement in the United States, as well as the cultural construction of the new "good teacher" in globalized contexts. She is currently Assistant Professor of English Education at Humboldt State University on the north coast of California. There, she also serves as Associate Director of the Redwood Writing Project, a grassroots professional development organization for teachers at all levels.