Damien Riley Plays Live 1/11/2025, a Sat lunch show, at Perks Coffee ☕ Apple Valley 11a til 1pm
LIVE acoustic concert! January 11, 2025 11a-1p All ages admitted.
Perks Coffee 18343 Outer Hwy 18 S Suite #100, Apple Valley, CA 92307 (760) 946-2022
Come on down for lunch, coffee, & song. Sure 2b funnn! And tasty too.
I’d like to thank their media lead, Alessandra. Thank you to Perk’s owner as well as Alessandra for this incredible opportunity.
I was very fortunate to take many of my fourth and 5th graders in my starry starry daylight career as a elementary school teacher to the museum. I took them once or twice to the Bowers museum in Santa Ana which has a natural history component to it. We studied the amera Indians and their customs and as we were walking through the art and the docent was leading her tour I noticed one of my little Hispanic students who is actually a transplant she was a mic from children she was the child of migrant worker parents from Salinas county. Somehow she ended up with me.
I always had to have like a caboose parent or another teacher that was with us to kind of keep an eye on the end of the line. Kids wander as you probably know. If you haven’t had them yourself you were a kid did you remember getting lost in the supermarket grabbing hold of a soft hand think it was your mother finding out it was a strange man. Yeah I know if that’s happened to all of us.
We lost track of her we don’t know where she went we didn’t know where she went I should say and when we finally found her she was staring at a pot. I asked the docent as I gather her together and started to bring her back to the bus I asked the docent with the pot was in the house it said well that is apart from guatemala. This is remarkable to me and just gave me the chills because you see this little girl had been transplanted from Guatemala to a day worker and her parents were both missing fingers from being pickers in the Salinas valley. But very recently in her 10 year old life she had been accessing the art of guatemala. She was a little flower from Guatemala. In touch with the art and science and feelings of guatemala. The descent told me that those were the commoners possessions in Guatemala and immediately I was flushed. I recalled what she must have gone through in that third world country and a third world country area. It makes me realize how precious all of us humans are. Also it makes me realize how we take in and identify the things of our home. As long as we’re willing to share and see that as part of our soul we fall apart. We owe our breath to the vehicle of life, the woman. I was extra attentive to Anna of Guatemala the whole year.
I speak in 11 mins. There are 21 students and a few faculty here at the moment. My topic today is: self-care. I am supervised and hosted by,
Watch this space for future dates and COME ON DOWN. 💕✌️😎🪽
If I put empty glass jars without lids in a pot of boiling water to heat clean them. Q: Outside the vat, will the vat weigh more? Does weightlessness in water play in?
Who needs Common Core when you have a Motley Fool!?!?
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Uncle DAme
Horny AF on the Lord’s day
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Presenting in this blog post, dear reader, my amazing, notwithstanding vicarious, teaching mentor Curt Visca, a treasured educator and beloved children’s cartoon show host I was heavily inspired by and remain indebted to in my K12 and now community college teaching career. Thank you.
Here’s a guy who mysteriously and unknowingly became vicariously a mentor to me in my 20’s 30’s and 40’s, through his “It’s Curtoon Time” kid TV show.
His local access cable TV broadcasting in South Orange County had such an allure for me prior to my drop/transplant into the High Desert in 2002 where I raised a family and thrived as a teacher.
Amazing Visionary!
He lives in San Clemente and is an accomplished teacher and administrator for the Capistrano Valley Unified School District. I looked up to him immensely. Even today at 55 I try to live and teach by his motto”Learning should be Simple & Silly.”
I wanted to make a show called “The Standard Train” in 2002 and for the longest time to inspire wonder in my Adelanto kids.
Curt was an early video creator and respected Public School Principal in Capistrano Valley Unified. He was an inspiration for me to press on with my outlier visions, never going halfway in my teaching and musical career.
Thank you Curt.
I get it now. I always had it but I can write about now at 55:
Teaching should be simple and silly
I love the idea of my 4th book Im currently writing being themed around the “Dynamite Lesson Plan” and Curt Vusca’s cartoony and brilliant philosophy of Keeping learning “simple and silly.”
From me to you commoners as well as teachers out there needing inspiration,
Yours,
DAme
PS Due to a catastrophic car accident, I lost my car and part time job car at Uber. I’ seeking donations to transition into the fall semester at GoFundMe.ic you can give any amount helps me in my endeavors like this blog and my music now in the queue for posting to Spotify and Apple Music.
