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"ME" and "WE"
What Congress Feels Like Lately. jeanne
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University of Wisconsin, Parkside I already wrote this and then accidentally did something weird that lost it all. Yikes! as Susan would say!
Pullias' climate of learning - we need a context in which we are loved - in the sense that those who teach us experience joy in our learning, so that we are encouraged in our own joy. The white-footed mice story. The passle of cats, each of whom develops his own individual learning, and visibly enjoys his own progress.
Scanned image of a tomato plant. It reminded me of a halloween ghost when I scanned it. What might it represent in relation to issues of age? of poverty? of land? of optimism?
As I came across this again, it sent me scurrying tomy sketch books to find the images I put together this week on "me" and "we."
WE GOTTA TALK ABOUT THIS. People are selling whatever they can find to sell. But part of selling stuff, is laying claim to it as yours. So how can a United States corporation own the water that falls from the sky as rain in Bolivia? Oh, you didn't know that really happened?
Wikipedia entry on Bechtel How would you feel if our President decided to privatize our water?
Fear as a Means of Persuasion and Governance
Consider that the young must rely upon their elders to educate and create opportunities for them to advance. And the older groups must rely upon the society as they know it and expect it to continue to care for them as they bring their life cycle to a close. This whole cycle is fraught with a need for trust and yet no over riding force that can assure that such trust will be honored. What a mess in terms of human relationships. For all of us. Even poor Mrs. Astor. (Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Astor's Elder Abuse. Consulted by jeanne on february 17, 2010.)
U.S. GDP grows at 5.7% rate in fourth quarter by Don Lee, Reporting from Washington, Los Angeles Times, January 30, 2010. At p. B1.
Great Ghost Curtain from Knitting in America (available on Amazon.com) Looks easy and fun to make. Will check it out further. Halloween is a great time to share all kinds of things with local community and neighbors. Also a great time to introduce ideas in celebrating death as fearful and occasionally even malicious as we do sometimes in the U.S, and celebrating the same idea in Day of the Dead, as many of our U.S. immigrant communities and some of the art world do. jeanne
Deep Thinking on the Web in Education | February 17th, 2010
"This morning, a New York Times editorial is helping get the word out. Deep thinking is alive and well on the web:
"The rest of the piece rightly focuses on a BBC podcast called In Our Time (iTunes – Feed - Web Site). It’s listed in our Ideas & Culture Podcast Collection, along with many other thoughtful programs that make meaningful subjects relevant to a broader, global audience. (For something similar in video, see our collections of Intelligent Video Sites and Smart YouTube Channels.)
Consulted by jeanne on February 17, 2010.
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"There is a lot of talk about how the Internet is driving culture ever lower, but it also makes a wealth of serious thinking available. From the comfort of home, one can download free audio books by authors like Jane Austen and Joseph Conrad and free podcasts of university lectures (openculture.com has an assortment of both)."
"What is Thinking Allowed? Thinking Allowed is a long-running independent public television series and an extensive video library developed from the series. Hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., Thinking Allowed aims to provide an open, non-adversarial forum for the exchange of intelligent, alternative ideas. New programs are no longer being produced. The series was presented by Thinking Allowed Productions, produced by Jeffrey Mishlove and Arthur Bloch and directed by Arthur Bloch." Consulted on February 17, 2010 by jeanne.
