Silent Cacophony is a sounding board for Chase March. Here you will find his podcast, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and much more. Please use the buttons on the home page to navigate to the topics that interest you.
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Why Is It About The Marks?
The first term of school is now over. My report cards have all been written and this week we will have parent-teacher interviews. I like the procedure my school has for handing out report cards. I haven’t seen another school do it quite this way, and I must say that I really think this is…
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Small but Significant
Who am I?The guy no one pays attention tothe guy who doesn’t fit intothe stereotypical image, you know,the one you’re used to seeing Who are you?Everyone elsefamily, friends, colleagues, nameless otherswho meander in and out,on their own agendas I can feel indifferent and unconnected in that differenceuntil I take a moment and try to understandor…
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It’s Gotta Be The Shoes
Grade 6 is when my love of running began. Mr. Smith was our gym teacher, as well as the track & field and cross-country coach. He designed great running courses in the very limited space available. I will always remember that. He made maps of the running routes and gave them names such as the…
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Slow Down
We live in a fast-paced world. It seems that we have little patience for most things these days. I think that we need to take time for ourselves. We need to slow down sometimes. If we get sick, we need to take the time to make ourselves better. We owe this to ourselves and to…
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Commonplace Book # 10
“Much of our satisfaction in life depends on our skills in connecting with other people – skills of dialogue we might call them.” – Bonnycastle, Stephen. In Search of Authority pg 23 Connecting with people is a skill? Does that mean that we can learn how to do it better? I think it does. This…
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Negative Rights
I saw this program on television this weekend that mentioned negative rights – the right to be without something. Right away I thought about cell phones. In this day and age, is it even possible to be free of this communication device? I personally don’t care for cell phones. I have an answering machine at…
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Music Space Issues
Like I said yesterday, I have issues when it comes to organizing my music. I have vinyl records, cassette tapes, and CDs. Each format of music that I own is organized in its own way. My records are in old milk crates or recycling bins. These containers are great for storing records and make it…
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How to Organize My Music
I love music! I started my collection when I was a child with vinyl records (you know those big black shiny things called LPs that spun around on a turntable at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.) The records soon got replaced by cassette tapes. I bought hundred of tapes. Then CDs came into the mix.…
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I’m Searchable Now!
Have you ever typed your name into Google’s search engine just to see what happens? It’s an interesting thing to search for yourself in cyberspace. I know that I have tried it before and got absolutely nothing. Typing in “chase march” in Google usually gets you a storm chasers website and a photo of a…
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Whatever Happened to Commitment?
There is a great commercial on television right now. It starts with a man driving a car while a voice over narrator speaks. The narrator comments on how we live in an age of instant gratification. He says, “Don’t like your nose? Get a new one,” and it shows an image of the driver with…