J.F. "Jeff" McCullers, EdD

@jeffmccullers.com

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Retired educator deep down in Florida. Fascinated by the humanities, science, and coffee. Advocate for teachers, students, families, and public schools. Policy wonk. Movie fan. Theater kid and yearbook kid. Sometime artist, writer, and poet.

Still frame from "Yi Yi." A young Taiwanese boy schoolboy in a black suit and tie is standing up in a room with numerous empty chairs behind him. He is holding a notebook, from which he is about to a read a poem at a funeral.
Sculpture showing a female and male figure facing each other. They are standing nude with their arms beside them. Thousands of electronic cables are connecting them to each other, but otherwise they do not touch.
Cover of Alice Cooper's "School's Out" album showing an old-fashioned wooden school desk with names and initials carved into it. The words "school's out" are scratched into a heart shape that resembles a tattoo.
Still frame from the movie "No Country For Old Men" showing an older sheriff. He is sitting in a café reading a newspaper. He has looked away from the newspaper in his hands to stare blankly at an unseen companion. He is looking over his eyeglasses. The impression is that he is disappointed or perhaps mildly cross about what was just said.
Still frame from the season two finale of "The Pitt" showing two physicians speaking to each other in a busy emergency department. Their expression seems serious and they both look tired.
Comic book image of a woman looking out a window onto a city skyline while she is saying "What a stupid time to be alive."
Painting showing nine men wearing standing in a semicircle behind a table. The men are wearing suits typical of the early 20th century. They are all facing the viewer, and they all have disfigured faces that resemble wounds suffered by soldiers in World War I. One man is wearing a bandage that covers most of his face. A young girl lies on the table before them, her bare feet and legs handing over one edge. She is wearing a clean dress that has a ruffle. Her head is facing the viewer but her eyes are closed.
Photograph of 14 different kinds of collard leaves spread out on a plain surface.
Night sky with a comet, probably Neowise. Photograph made in the summer of 2020 by Norbert L. Rühl.
Photograph of a trash bin in a kitchen. The lid is partially open to reveal a big tangle of Christmas lights that have been partially shoved into the bin.
Photograph of two antique vending machines that dispense four five-cent U.S. postage stamps for a quarter.
Painting showing a dark featurless plain and a gloomy sky beyond. In the far distance, we a silhouette of a man who is holding a torch or flashlight. In the foreground, we see a standing figure who is completely consumed in flames. Their arms are outstretched. Smoke billows from this figure into the sky.
An old-fashioned suitcase, with obvious scuffs and dents of many travels. The latches are unlocked but the suitcase is closed.
Screen shot of Publix Pharmacy web page listing the states where they offer COVID vaccines. For Florida, the page says the COVID vaccine is "currently not available." No other state in the list has the same statement.
Hand drawing of a man in a business suit standing at an easel. He is looking at the viewer as if he is giving a presentation, and one hand is about to turn the the page on a large chart pad on the easel. A hand-lettered caption reads "Listen to reason, you ignorant fools."
Classical Roman decoration on a cup showing a man with long hair being vomited up by a large dragon. A goddess in armor watches. The Golden Fleece is hanging from a fruit tree behind them.
Photograph of a dog with shaggy fur. Its head is facing the viewer but its eyes are concealed beneath all the fur.
Line drawing of a grappling hook with a short length of rope attached to it.
Five images side by side of the launch of the Apollo 11 lunar spacecraft on top of a Saturn V missile. We see successive images of the rocket as rises from the ground and begins its journey to the Moon.
A single candle burning in the dark.
Photograph of fingernails being dragged across a chalkboard.
Photograph of Bob Dylan as young man in New York City. He is sitting at a typewriter and smoking a cigarette.
Arial view of St. Peter's Square in the Vatican during the funeral mass for Pope Francis. An Egyptian obelisk is at the center surrounded by thousands of attendees.
Screenshot of Tumblr post which consists of a lyric from Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love. The lyric reads "Wanna whole lotta love" and is followed by the sound of a guitar being spelled out phonetically as "n e e e r r r." This is repeated four times, with the last line have a much longer guitar wail.
Cover art showing a representation of a scene from Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" in which a character rides a descending nuclear missile as if it were a rodeo bull. This version is painted in black and white to resemble the Kubrick film and it features Trump administration officials including Pete Hegseth, J.D. Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, Michael Waltz riding a nuclear missile in the same way as in the film but each waving a mobile phone.
Detailed scientific diagram showing the Earth's orbital characteristics at the point of the vernal equinox.
Photograph of Irish writer Samuel Beckett. He seems to be speaking to someone not in the photograph. His eyeglasses are resting on his forehead as if he had pushed them away momentarily.
Screenshot of DOGE report that reads: SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION. GAINESVILLE, GA. 17,844 $506,527.
Stenciled graffiti on the exterior wall of a building showing a young girl in pigtails and a skirt. She is kneeling over an unconscious dove. The dove is lying on its back with its wings outstretched. The girl is pressing with both hands on the dove's chest as if to perform emergency resuscitation.
Photograph of a man facing the camera directly. His eyes have been dilated for an eye examination so the pupils are unusually large.
Line drawing of four finches from Charles Darwin's published journal of his voyage on the HMS Beagle.
A page from an old book showing a line drawing of snake crawling across the page. The page has been edited so that around the snake is a passage from the Biblical Book of Genesis: "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of field which the Lord God had made." The text continues with "And he said unto them 'What the hell is wrong with you people? For real though. I'm actually asking.'"
Black and white lithographic drawing of a man leaning by his toes off the edge of a platform. He is leaning backward and turned so that his face is looking down into the open space in which he about to fall. He is clutching his head in anguish. There are dark shadows and a general sense of gloom and dread.
Exterior view of the north side of the White House.
Display of numerous vintage toy robots and their packing boxes.
Christmas tree ornament sitting by itself on a table. It is a plain red glass sphere with a gold-colored stem.
A grain of table salt as seen with a scanning electron microscope. The grain of salt is rough but clearly cube-shaped.
Six-string National resonator guitar as shown on the album cover for "Brothers In Arms" by Dire Straits
A woman in a old-fashioned dress and black veil covering her eyes from the sight of a guillotine.
Elvira Gulch in her bicycle from 1939's "Wizard of Oz" who is being overtaken by Pee-Wee Herman on his bicycle. She looks unhappy and he looks determined.
Ink drawing by Rockwell Kent for the 1930 edition of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick or The Whale." This is a stark black and white drawing of a weary sailor, his hair disheveled and eyes set grimly. His arms are draped over a fallen mast and he is holding a loop of heavy rope. Behind him is an ominous sea and sky.
Still frame from François Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" from 1959. The camera is focused on the face and hand of a 14-year-old boy. We can't see the rest of his body, but it is clear that he is lying on his back. He has a pen in his hand and it appears he is thinking about what to write. He is looking upward as if he is deep in thought.
Photograph of the front cover of a hardbook school textbook published during the 1920s. The cover is bound in cloth, with the title printed in large letters: "The School Song Book- Students Edition". The author's name is listed just as "McConathy." The publisher's name appears at the bottom as "C.C. Burchard & Company." The cover is plan and dull-colored, but there is an ornamental border around the edges.
Close-up image of vegetables just beginning to simmer in a pot including cabbage, carrots, onions, lentils, potatoes, celery, Lima beans, and corn.
Publicity still frame from the 2024 movie "Wicked" showing Cynthia Erivo as Elpheba and Ariana Grande as Glinda. The are standing arm in arm, with their faces toward the viewer and looking upward hopefully. Elpheba is dressed in a traditional black witch costume such as we saw the Wicked Witch of the West wear in "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939. Glinda is dressed in a pink princess gown such as we saw the Good Witch of the North wear in the same movie.
Photograph of a rising sun as seen through the Florida scrub with numerous pine trees silhouetted in the coming light. Photograph by Sarah Zenner of the U.S. National Park Service.
Front cover of the original 1667 edition of John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" as published in London by Samuel Simmons. There is no artwork but only text which is printed in a way that is distinctive of that time and seems quaint and old-fashioned. The text reads: Paradise Lost a poem written in ten books by John Milton Licensed and entered according to order
A nitrile sterile glove that is a being worn by a model. Only the glove is visible and the glove is as long as the model's arm. The model's arm is extended outward showing how long the glove is.
An image of a framed printed poster with the following axioms: GIVE MORE GRACE LISTEN MORE CLOSELY DANCE MORE OFTEN DRINK MORE WHISKEY HUG MORE NECKS READ MORE DOOKS MAKE MORE BISCUITS GROW MORE TOMATOES BUY MORE LOCAL SAVE MORE RECIPES TAKE MORE PICTURESN VISIT MORE FRIENDS LEARN MORE HISTORY LOOK MORE DEEPLY CAN MORE VEGGIES CAST MORE VOTES PLAY MORE RECORDS START MORE CONVERSATIONS STIR MORE COCKTAILS SEE MORE BANDS TAKE MORE WALKS CONSIDER MORE PERSPECTIVES EAT MORE GRITS HAVE MORE MERCY BLESS MORE HEARTS DRIVE MORE BACKROADS CALL HOME MORE OFTEN TELL MORE STORIES The image is taken from the store page of the magazine called The Bitter Southerner.
Publicity photograph of actor William Daniels in character as schoolteacher and later principal George Feeny in the television show "Boy Meets World." He is smiling and wearing a three-piece suit while standing in the hallway of a school.
A dazzling photograph of the peninsula of Florida as seen from low Earth orbit. The Gulf of Mexico is visible, as is part of Cuba and The Bahamas.
Screenshot of excerpt from a restraining order with the following sentence highlighted: "To keep it simple for the State of Florida: It's the First Amendment, stupid."
Screenshot of message from Amazon announcing that its Prime Video service will now include advertising. Customers can continue with the ad-free version but they will have to pay an extra three dollars a month.
"The Shuttle" is an Andrew Rovenko photograph of his young daughter. She is sitting inside a mid-century looking transit bus that is otherwise empty. She is sitting alone with her hands folded neatly on her lap and her ankles crossed while she looks out a window. She seems to be wearing a space suit.
Image of Edward G. Robinson in the movie "Soylent Green" at peace as he faces the end of his life.