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For All We Know
“For all we know we may never meet again
Before you go make this moment sweet again
We won’t say good night until the last minute
I’ll hold out my hand and my heart will be in it
For all we know this may only be a dream
We come and go like a ripple on a stream
So love me tonight; tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come for all we know.”
Sam M. Lewis
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Super Christ Me. Every Sunday, TV congregations numbering tens of millions tune in to salvation sermons broadcast from mega-churches filled with thousands upon thousands of followers. Sure, televangelism is shallow, manipulative, money-driven. But isn’t everything in pop culture (think Top 40 music, fast food, reality TV) just vacuous drivel designed for material gain? Maybe McJesus televangelism is just as valid a religion as any. But the real question is, can millions of couch-bound American souls survive on it alone? Who are we to point the finger at someone’s spiritual diet and say it’s time for some ecclesiastic exercise? Is televangelism an acceptable method of ministry to the masses?
Todd Steinberg for SoulPancake
His vernacular made me laugh.
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Artemisia Gentileschi, Sleeping Venus, c. 1625 - 1630
I hate to describe my reaction to this with a cliche, but it truly feels like a breath of fresh air to my eyes.
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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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