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When you pass the butternut squash in Central Market, do a double-take, and go back to gaze longingly it has been too long. Going on two years, I think. I don’t know…I’ve stopped counting. And judging from how the aging stick is beating me I think there’s gonna be butternut squash in my future. I wonder if they enjoy discussing literature and philosophy as foreplay.
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An interview with Robert Jensen on war, ecological crises, and the quest for justice →
“The most important thing that Universities could do right now is be laboratories for experiments outside of the dominant system, which is exactly what we’re not doing.
What we’re doing is still training people to be rats in a maze. Well, what if we said, the maze is over. For now, the maze may still exist out in the world, but we’re going to spend four years here going beyond the maze, and your job as a student, and your job as a faculty member, is to experiment with alternatives. That would mean a dramatically different curriculum, that would mean a dramatically different classroom.
I would like to see that happen. In journalism education, the collapse of the commercial journalism industry — the fact that there are fewer jobs for our students in the traditional journalism institutions — gives us a kind of opportunity. It’s a disaster at one level, in that the way we’ve done things no longer works, but it’s also an opportunity to reshape those methods.
In my own experience, there is a lot of resistance to that kind of change, because it is kind of frightening. If you’ve been doing something on a model that in the past has worked, or at least appeared to work, and now people are saying that model is over, well it’s not exactly easy to jump to that position where everything is up for grabs. But that’s what Universities should be doing. Unfortunately, not only in journalism but in the University at large, I think there is a distinct lack of that spirit. There is an attempt to kind of hunker down, and make this model work, but I don’t think the model can work. I don’t think it ever worked for real education, but it’s certainly not going to work in a dramatically changing landscape.” Robert Jensen interviewed by Calvin Sloan, 1 Nov. 2009
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Morphoses at Vineyard Arts Project →
Produced by Julie Bloom
“I’m Andrew Crawford. I’m from Sydney Australia. I was picked up by Morphoses..uh.. when they went to Sydney earlier this year for the Sydney Festival…I was drawn to it. I mean I was born into it anyway because um, my mother used it as cheap child minding. Of course my oldest sister naturally wanted to be a ballerina but um I grew up moving. The freedom of it…it’s um.. it is such a kind of personal thing, it is, in a sense, a meditation, you know, which I think a lot of people strive for these days. They want to have that personal time. They want to find this meditation; they want to find this stillness or this, this intimacy with themselves and their own life experience and it’s something that you get immediately when you, when you dance—-especially when you can and there’s beautiful music and you’re involved with the music. There’s such a focus about that..um..the challenge of classical ballet is so extreme and never ending. I think with a lot of disciplines it’s very much like that. It can never be turned out enough, it can never be long enough, it can never be on or off balance enough. Nothing can ever be quite there so you’ve always got further to go.” Andrew Crawford
Photo reblogged from West Whim
“These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.”
(via kateoplis: noahkalina: lapuravidagallery)
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I’m a lover of What Is. When you argue with reality, you lose - but only 100% of the time.
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Knowing the physical laws that enable you to keep your balance while riding a bicycle will not enable you to ride it. You must learn by trial and error, by practice, until the process becomes internalized, a second nature.
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Reinhold Messner’s description of his state of being while climbing in the Himalayan mountains: “Striding along, my body becomes so highly charged it would be quite impossible for e to stop. It feels as if something wants to break free, to burst from my breast. It is a surge of longing that carries me forward as if I were possessed.”
I felt exactly the same dancing to certain pieces of music.
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••••• All Billy can muster is a soft ‘wow’….
Spanked by Jesus
TRANSCRIPT:
But sometimes if we’re really being bad or foolish and doing things we know are wrong, the Lord may take away His Protection and let us get hurt or sick as punishment for being so naughty.
Sometimes that’s why we get sick, because the lord is spanking us for being naughty. When we are sick we should pray and ask the Lord ‘why?’.
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Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to
be ugly in a fully grown adult.
Lack of involvement with the father, or over-involvement with the mother,
can result in lack of ability to relate to sexual fears, and in homosexual
leanings, narcissism, transexuality (girls from the waist up/men from the
waist down), attempts to be your own love object. Reconcile your parents to
you by becoming both at once!
Even Marilyn Monroe was a man, but this tends to get overlooked by our
mother-fixated, overweight, sexist media.
So:
Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to
be ugly in a fully grown adult.
If you give in to them
Every time they cry
They will become little tyrants
But they won’t remember why
Then when they are thwarted
By people in later life
They will become psychotic
And they won’t make an ideal husband or wife
The spoiled baby grows into
the escapist teenager who’s
the adult alcoholic who’s
the middle-aged suicide. (Oy.)
So:
Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to
be ugly in a fully grown adult.
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It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but he who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great devotion; who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat.
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I have a crush, perhaps a hero: Felix Cane.
This is so beautiful, so extraordinary…athleticism, artistry, sensuality, musicality, such amazing tolerance for pain…
I’ve watched it everyday since I first saw it.
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What a man actually needs is not the discharge of a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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