Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 09, 2012

Ralph Phillips

Very nice. Dream big dreams.

Ohhh, this takes me back a few years!

Too late…

Well it is not MY fault that you want us to learn about William Cody and Kit Carson and I left to go do close observation of their lives.

Bill Gates: The Early Years.

A young Walter Mitty???

but i will day dream in style

Reminds me of notes I took once in college. First they went to gobbledygook, and then trailed off completely.

Well how can you stand to be in here my friend, scratching answers to math with your pencil or pen?When outside the door there are bees on the lawn, and birds have been singing since just before dawn.Well how can you stand to do history and spelling, while a world full of lilacs your nose could be smelling?With lilly pads, cattails and water bugs speeding on blue sky reflections, while you sit here reading..

The cotton hung high, glows from natures appliance, while you study clouds from a book labeled science.

With the wind bending weeds in the field down the road, and the neighbors pet cat pouncing after a toad, While a squirrel in a tree looking down on it all, drops nuts in the dew where the peach blossoms fall, When a butterfly flutters by, acting aloof, How can you stay in for walls, ’nieth a roof?

Jim Picard

Why Not???

Ausie, no I think this one is autobiographical….If that ain’t a young Wiley Miller at the window, I’ll eat my cat..er, hat…

Young Einstein…

Cute.

Technically speaking, it looks like class is out of session, so he’s ok for the (daydreaming) moment…!

That was me.

I used to draw what I could see out the windows. Had this whole notebook called Drawing in class…

Notice that the outside is a blank sheet… he can dream anything he wants to dream… no restraints… no rules… just endless possibilities. Good on you Wiley!

I don’t always like this strip, but every now and then he comes up with a really good one, like this.

Get back to your standardized test and stop daydreaming about art, music and literature! You don’t want to be Left Behind, do you?

Mine was “I am not the class clown” 500 times. Then I had to erase the blackboard and go outside to bang the erasers. My nickname was “dusty”

For an adhd kid, the classroom often seemed like prison.

A self-portrait, Wiley?

“…And the the whining school-boy, with his satchel, and shining morning face,creeping like a snail unwillingly to school…”

Shakespeare: As You Like It

And you can be sure that if you’re feelin’ rightA daydream will last along into the nightTomorrow at breakfast you may pick up your earsOr you may be daydreamin for a thousand years-Lovin Spoonful

Nothing beats the efficiency of teaching by rote, or the inefficiency of learning by rote

don’t guess wiley ever had to do this himself. it’s quicker if you just write it on the board one word of the sentence at a time in vertical columns.

Ahhh, nostalgia.

“Bart”

+++++

I’d think it’s more like Calvin. Escaping into the Fifth Dimension, where time has no meaning!

Schools tell you what they think is real…day dreaming tells you what you know in your heart to be real.

Hang in there, school will be out for the summer, soon. :)

I don’t think anyone else has said this, so I will: this composition is masterful. One panel, grading from darkness into light, and the kid staring out the window leading the viewer with him out into the unbounded light. High art, Wiley. Thanks.

To anyone who ever read a Ray Bradbury story…

Think Different

ADD and ADHD are very real problems that existed long before the pharma corps came up with meds. It just took a while to realize these were real neurochemical issues and not laziness. I should know; I have ADHD. All the discipline and positive reinforcement in the world didn’t work because it’s as physical in nature as a broken bone. It’s just extremely hard to tell if it’s an actual physical malady or not.

perfect!

Those were the days my friend… Now most schools are hermetically sealed.

This was my school experience.

“What a day for a daydream …”

That’s like most of my days. Brilliant, Wiley. Just brilliant.

I agree with HighPriestMikhal. The trouble with such afflictions is the person who has them doesn’t know he has the problem. When you try your hardest to focus and pay attention, and you realize that no matter how hard you try, you can’t do it. The only possible explanation, when you know you are trying your best, is that you ARE stupid! What other explanation could their be? I thought I was a moron, and I’m just Lysdexic………

In good school districts, there are very few students who flunk any more, and it’s not because the curriculum is any easier, or the grades inflated. It used to be the ADD and ADHD students who flunked…Now they are diagnosed and taught differently. They are doing their best to do it without drugs…but if that’s what it takes.

On a slightly different note, National Geographic had an article about genetic traits, throughout the world. Compared to people in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, people in Southern S. America are 50% ADD. Implications? The ancestors of the first folks to wander out of Africa, and kept going to settle the Americas had ADD. In other words, they kept saying "Ooo…there’s something pretty and shiny way over there, let’s go see what it is….Oh, look over there…Oh, and over there……until they ran out of room….Something to think about…There’s a time and a place for everything I guess.

Hey, that’s me!

Hey, teach, it’s not my fault you’re a droning bore!