According to a recent article published by the Wall Street Journal, most high school students learn to be innovative not because of their education but despite it.
Most of us have heard of the Apache leader Geronimo but most of
what we know we learned at the movies. Leader of the Chiricahua
Apaches, Geronimo led the fi ght against the expansion into Apache
tribal lands by the United States during the Apache Wars.
Geronimo,
Young lungs fill with the saccharine-sweet aroma—
a blend of incense and nicotine while a darker sticky
essence engulfs their perception making them giddy,
making them forget their suffering, if only momentarily.
I
remember asking him to slow down so that I could die at
the hospital instead of wrapped around a telephone pole.
His response—either way, I was probably dead.
This started out to be
about the sensuality and
wonder of the world as seen through the writings of
beloved American poet Walt Whitman, but in order to
do that, I have to start with my friend Bruce.