Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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Adapt or die.
What happens in Sturgis will not stay in Sturgis. Ignorance, hubris, and intransigence exist in the soul of America. Our species is subject to the same biological constructs that exist in every single evolutionary paradigm of adapt or die.
It doesn’t matter if you want Johnny and…
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I Couldn’t Possibly Tell All These Stories
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When you’re caught up in the life – and living it – time becomes a salient animal not unlike the way a cheetah walks, seductively but dangerous. I wanted to love you but karma’s a trip.
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Free Shirt From Good Will Grab Bag
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https://twitter.com/timbarrus
The Grab Bag has all kinds of Free Stuff.
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No Boundaries
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Some people and their shit and their stuff and their kids and their plastic kiddie pool and their old trucks ain’t going nowhere but is being eaten by the rust brambles, are fucking everywhere because they have no boundaries whatsoever.
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Death In School
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JUST ANOTHER DAY OF MY SMASHING TELEVISIONS
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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Instability can kill. So inconvenient. I mentor boys at-risk. They are easily suicidal. Jumping into the abyss is with a shrug.
Way before COVID. All the usual suspects. School failure, HIV, every other STD, suicide attempts times ten, sex work, addiction, sex addiction, rage management, homelessness, grand theft auto, shoplifting,…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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Trump happened.
This American enigma has devastated and wiped out an incomprehensible number of American lives. And then, there are lives standing at edges of the abyss.
So much of America is holding its cumulative breath waiting to see if their government is able to respond to their collective need…
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The Straws That Break the Camel’s Back
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Tim Barrus, the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/health/coronavirus-tuberculosis-aids-malaria.html#commentsContainer&permid=108456967:108456967
Theoretically, someone could have multiple diseases. And public health, as we know it, is the answer.
Malaria. Covid. TB. HIV.
Are you kidding me.
I have been visiting other public health systems versus just the one I am intimately acquainted with where I…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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The classroom was a nightmare on a good day.
Reinvent it. I did.
I was one of them. Once. Mainly, we still throw them away.
That trajectory toward success.
Kids I teach don’t so much as consider college a remote possibility. Our goal at the end of the day is…