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two poems on the mystery of it all... 1. Day after day I teach them how to ski. How does one ski? They call me teacher. How can one teach? My students all learn to ski. How do they do it? ‘It’ teaches me, ‘It’ learns them, ‘It’ skis, ‘it’ snows. We should praise ‘it’! |
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2. My students never believe me when I tell them that understanding skiing won’t help them ski better. Doing is enough: to ski just ski, to see just look. The teacher doesn’t understand either. His skis skí him his students teach him. Obscurely he even suspects that practice doesn’t make perfect but that praxis is perfection.… |
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| photo above: tpoetry in motion, backcountry powder in Bear Creek, Telluride © Linde Waidhofer |
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