tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40888142012-01-10T21:26:01.908-06:00Earth & Pragmatismbrief poetics small sociologies simple ars vivendi, sukhino va khemino hontu, utilitarian, pragmatic maps to from, sabbe sattā bhavantu sukhitattā, rivers kettlesGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.comBlogger8171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-21493353971433178112011-12-06T00:50:00.007-06:002011-12-10T20:16:49.807-06:00panta rheimostly will post photos & things here now:
panta rhei: http://omniafluens.tumblr.com/Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-59253764779116158732011-12-04T06:57:00.000-06:002011-12-04T11:53:54.580-06:00mindfulness practice more effective than drugsThe results were stark. Not surprisingly, patients who escaped depression with the help of anti-depressants, and then stopped taking the drugs, relapsed about 70 percent of the time. The chemical boost was temporary. However, during the 18 month follow-up period, only 28 percent of patients in mindfulness therapy slipped back into the mental illness.
- Jonah Lehrer, "In Defense of Therapy"Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-79465560274756693132011-11-19T12:59:00.001-06:002011-11-19T13:41:44.844-06:00from a north study window five cats behind meGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-15836062664388060892011-11-17T13:54:00.001-06:002011-11-17T15:11:23.392-06:00after talking about halpin's "foundations of a philosophy of collective intelligence"Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-50161538722021194422011-11-15T15:13:00.001-06:002011-11-15T15:13:40.137-06:00afternoon office window before discussing deleuze's "to have done w/ judgment"Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-62996201233274296272011-11-14T15:26:00.001-06:002011-11-14T15:29:34.930-06:00european black pine adorning ecology action center downtown normalGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-29416877905784057762011-11-14T14:26:00.003-06:002011-11-19T22:30:32.916-06:00reading doug robinson's chpt "shklovsky's modernist poetics"
TWSBI Diamond 540, clear demonstrator, medium nib, piston filler. Lamy blue/black ink. Capacity 2.6 ml. Designed 2010.
Lamy 2000, fine nib, makralon piston filler. Noodler's permanent black.
Capacity 2ml. Designed 1966.Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-54231032754584893212011-11-13T20:26:00.002-06:002011-11-14T01:46:32.985-06:00the better angels of our nature: how violence has declinedSteven Pinker's 800 pg reminder as to how far we've come. After paddling in a pool.Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-9968713612833402952011-11-12T14:25:00.004-06:002011-11-12T22:12:29.263-06:00the only way out is in
vipassana in an alabama prison
donaldson correctional facilityGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-36705901618382541952011-11-10T06:00:00.010-06:002011-11-12T16:43:53.752-06:00sinking of the edmund fitzgeraldOn this day November 10 1975 the then largest freighter on the largest lake on the planet's largest body of freshwater, the Great Lakes, in whose region I was born, sank in a storm at 19:10 eastern, in 11 meter waves, in Canadian waters, 29 crew members perishing.
Three songs from that region stirred in me as a boy an incipient awareness of energy in meaning-rhythms. They were not the best songs,Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-70317503001269916392011-09-27T09:24:00.000-05:002011-09-27T09:24:39.575-05:00the intellectual virtue of kindnessAndrew Sullivan, at the Daily Dish, posts an email I sent about the criticisms some have leveled against Harvard for asking students to take a pledge of kindness. I like Andrew's blog a lot, though I disagree with him often (he's a theist, for one thing):
"This notion that intellectual rigor and kindness do not make good bedfellows is really misguided. It seems predicated on that old unexamined (Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-20763503280505218832011-08-06T15:28:00.000-05:002011-08-06T15:28:22.037-05:00
On being kind to animals - Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, award-winning astrophysicist, author, and director of the Hayden Planetarium.Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-45354705171172000572011-07-19T00:01:00.003-05:002011-07-19T08:28:20.490-05:00on this day in 1848MY DEAR WIFE
I have not written to you a long while, but here I am in the land of Sodom where all the people's brains are turned the wrong way. I was glad to see John yesterday, and should like to have gone back with him, for I am very weary of being here. You might come and fetch me away, for I think I have been here long enough.
I write this in a green meadow by the side of the river agen Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-10398379974069673622011-06-11T01:46:00.001-05:002011-06-11T03:10:58.099-05:00June 11 1963"As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him"
- David Halberstam, witness, New York Times correspondent
Thích Quảng Đức practicing vipassana
"The Vietnamese monk, by burning himself, says with all his strength and determination that he can endure the greatest of sufferings to protect his people..." - Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-31349969108347984592011-04-18T23:39:00.000-05:002011-04-18T23:39:01.308-05:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-562959811007910852011-04-11T21:07:00.000-05:002011-04-12T00:25:20.781-05:00Happy Birthday Christopher Smart born April 11 289 Years Ago
On this day 1722 Christopher Smart was born as a premature baby. He suffered from delicate health all his life. Most famous for his religious poetry, in particular his "A Song to David,” Smart wrote one of the strangest (I think) books in the language, the Jubilate Agno. “Jubilate” is the plural imperative “rejoice,” and “agno” the ablative of “lamb."
He was apparently a bright and likeable Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-70125024960378171702011-04-04T08:11:00.001-05:002011-04-04T08:11:54.080-05:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-82260240857438666932011-03-29T21:56:00.000-05:002011-03-29T21:56:22.065-05:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-19363385501341005982011-03-07T20:24:00.001-06:002011-03-07T21:26:10.013-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-31165618355386894672011-03-07T14:43:00.000-06:002011-03-07T14:43:52.107-06:00the letter of fervent love for cattleAround this time, Sayadaw started exhorting people not to eat cattle or oxen. He taught that oxen correspond to fathers who plow the land and give food to the family. Cows resemble mothers, who feed milk to their children. Human beings should not eat the meat of oxen and cows because they are so similar to parents. Sayadaw wrote many open letters at that time urging people to abstain from eating Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-22367758251026210012011-02-26T13:16:00.001-06:002011-02-26T13:16:35.860-06:00poetry sometimes forgets about relationships
Poetry sometimes forgets about relationships. Because it tries to deal with too much abstraction. And in the end it’s the relationships which are so important. Especially in a world like today in which there is so much disaster and so much fragmentation. I think the notion of relationships ... is very very important. And in fact when you listen to our poets, it might be a good ideaGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-69814413345484181982011-02-22T19:48:00.000-06:002011-02-22T19:48:07.299-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-72910104965690530832011-02-09T07:27:00.003-06:002011-02-09T16:25:17.437-06:00npr story vipassana in an alabama maximum security prison
"I could see a significant decrease in behavioral problems"
"the program is not religious"
The exact method of meditation taught and practiced at this prison is also taught in about two hundred meditation centers around the world. Ten-day introductory courses are offered at these places free of charge. There are about a dozen such centers in North America. For a complete world-wide list, visitGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-53023756406905018192011-02-08T09:29:00.002-06:002011-02-08T09:29:14.276-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-30049773207959425342011-01-31T15:46:00.002-06:002011-01-31T15:46:45.044-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-91106185903396570772011-01-31T13:32:00.002-06:002011-01-31T15:54:17.867-06:00My job.
pen under eyewear
Pelikan M400 Souverän, medium nib, c. 1980, says "W. Germany" in caplip metal. Noodler's permanent red
pen adjacent to eyewear
Pelikan M200, burgundy, medium nib, c. 2000. Noodler's permanent black
Maria Damon & Ira Livingston's Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader (U of Illinois, 2009). "It is time for this book. Poetry is studied more and more frequently with a Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-38050676245439654082011-01-30T22:02:00.000-06:002011-01-30T22:03:12.801-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-76458572711939203032011-01-30T09:27:00.004-06:002011-01-30T12:19:59.998-06:00gandhiji 1-30-1948 goodbye againKabira kharā bāzārameṅ,
liye kuḷhārā hātha.
Śiśa utāre, bhuīṅ dhare
cale hamāre sātha.
Kabīr says
"I am here with an axe
calling you.
Only one ready
to chop off her head
and throw it in the dust
can come with me."Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-45790133884659229862011-01-29T15:13:00.003-06:002011-01-29T19:31:04.487-06:00mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density"[MRI] analyses in a priori regions of interest confirmed increases in gray matter concentration within the left hippocampus. Whole brain analyses identified increases in the posterior cingulate cortex, the temporo-parietal junction, and the cerebellum in the *MBSR group compared with the controls. The results suggest that participation in MBSR is associated with changes in gray matter Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-7669014087996020612011-01-29T15:05:00.003-06:002011-01-29T16:51:37.789-06:00"Over the December holidays, my husband went on a 10-day silent meditation retreat. Not my idea of fun, but he came back rejuvenated and energetic.
"He said the experience was so transformational that he has committed to meditating for two hours a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, until the end of March. He’s running an experiment to determine whether and how meditation actually Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-16169214257267562332011-01-29T06:00:00.001-06:002011-01-29T06:00:07.577-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-74581285172316381042011-01-28T21:38:00.001-06:002011-01-28T21:38:50.159-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-71523477508630489772011-01-28T20:37:00.001-06:002011-01-28T20:37:45.069-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-37261887015723737932011-01-28T17:38:00.000-06:002011-01-28T17:39:28.548-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-89098230049151874122011-01-24T16:24:00.008-06:002011-01-31T21:21:15.972-06:00he manga wai koia kia kore e whitikia
one of my favorite youtube videos and i'm not sure why
paul gamache, former holder of the world record for freefall waterfall descent in a kayak, 108 ft, runs smith river oregon hole gorge on california oregon border at flood stage, 80,000 cubic feet/sec, heavily aerated water too small boat
i don't really know what bruni's singing, so it's not her words necessarily. maybe the song's melodic/Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-58961869865711589352011-01-23T17:12:00.001-06:002011-01-24T00:24:45.030-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-50761731803874615532011-01-23T12:34:00.000-06:002011-01-23T12:34:07.248-06:00"Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. In a study that will appear in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers report the results of their study, the first to document meditation-producedGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-46091522276410013902011-01-20T10:36:00.001-06:002011-01-26T17:02:16.999-06:00Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-971873163378701712011-01-16T20:24:00.001-06:002011-01-16T20:24:35.104-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-26289755331739169082011-01-13T20:09:00.002-06:002011-01-13T20:09:16.102-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-49852594389375051442011-01-10T16:21:00.002-06:002011-01-10T16:21:19.304-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-11762132355462103142011-01-08T07:10:00.001-06:002011-01-08T07:10:48.288-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-91780751879631060322011-01-07T16:16:00.000-06:002011-01-07T16:16:36.647-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-28614986759941101952011-01-03T12:29:00.002-06:002011-01-03T19:49:48.862-06:00The momentum given ... by passage through sorrow is missing when peace is sought through avoidance. A flat life of calibrated retreat may appear placid and ordered to neighbors, but those who live minimally and timidly tread water, enduring a life of chronic anxiety-depression.
Cultivating Inner Peace, Paul R Fleischman, MD, psychiatrist and Vipassana Acariya
Give not thyself up, then, to fire,Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-47808718084834762682010-12-31T23:40:00.000-06:002010-12-31T23:40:57.676-06:00my cats dressed in polar bear suitsGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-23396368606917823512010-12-31T14:41:00.000-06:002010-12-31T14:41:14.079-06:00what the song asksThe question it asks is clear: Should those we knew and loved be forgotten and never thought of? Should old times past be forgotten? No, says the song, they shouldn't be. We'll remember those times and those people, we'll toast them now and always, we'll keep them close. "We'll take a cup of kindness yet."
- Peggy Noonan, "Days of Auld Lang What?: The Origin of the New Year's Anthem and What it Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-64033059296148531272010-12-30T22:44:00.003-06:002010-12-30T23:20:26.245-06:00Kiran Bedi - Director General of Indian Police Service and Vipassana Meditator
Kiran Bedi transformed the largest and most violent prison in India, Tihar Prison, population 10,000, by instituting ten-day courses in Vipassana Meditation as taught by S. N. Goenka. Crime and violence in the prison dropped dramatically. See the Israeli film Doing Time, Doing Vipassana about Vipassana in Tihar Prison.
While she was police chief in the city of New Delhi, she had every police Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-64985748071960761452010-12-29T21:01:00.002-06:002010-12-30T01:07:53.991-06:00"[The DSM-IV] fostered an increasing tendency to chalk up life’s difficulties to mental illness and then treat them with psychiatric drugs."
- Gary Greenberg on the doubts of Allen Frances (lead editor of the DSM-IV) and the increasing insurgency among psychiatrists against the DSM-5, due out in 2013, and its even laxer criteria for mental illnessGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-7616436086843444912010-12-28T00:07:00.001-06:002010-12-28T00:07:14.516-06:00Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-79787197633043401362010-12-27T19:05:00.000-06:002010-12-27T19:05:30.180-06:00"The endlessness of reality / as the consequence / of the closeness of persons, / and the end of loneliness, / between or within persons, / is declared"
- Charles Olson is one hundred years today
[hat tip B Friedlander]Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-63482332348700858452010-12-24T23:00:00.001-06:002010-12-24T23:00:42.989-06:00"Maria Glymour, an assistant professor of Society, Human Development and Health at Harvard, and her colleagues reported their findings on emotional support in stroke in the journal Neuroepidemiology. In this article, they reported that emotional support led to better thinking ability six months down the line and also greater improvement in thinking at the same time. This suggests that the mental Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-85148596463688150882010-12-24T22:35:00.005-06:002010-12-29T19:44:29.412-06:00in point of fact there is no Virginia either[Forget whether there's a Santa. That's just an honored {and, in the below case, sanctimonious} ruse. What's really a puzzle is the stories we tell ourselves, almost w/out awareness, about our own existence.]
Dear Editor,
I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth: Is there a Santa Claus?
Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-1014389139582720562010-12-19T11:32:00.002-06:002010-12-19T11:32:52.710-06:00"Food is one part. Love is another part."Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-79185340382660251512010-12-18T13:00:00.000-06:002010-12-18T13:01:44.632-06:00Day 10 Illinois Vipassana Meditation CenterSent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-8655237858547230252010-12-18T11:10:00.001-06:002010-12-18T11:10:00.672-06:00mittānukampakoHere again we find affinity with Heidegger, who claimed that the authentic discourse with the other is in fact silence. [fn., For Heidegger, the reason is that abolishing communication (in the daily sense of this expression) is the essential moment that accompanies authenticity, since it directs Dasein to his inwardness.]
- Dana Freibach-Heifetz“Pure Air and Solitude and Bread and Medicine: Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-58090619107758014122010-12-16T19:01:00.002-06:002010-12-19T11:35:22.270-06:00"even there I was laughing"
"I never hate and I have never hated. Hatred brings only hatred."Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-5297164908726497382010-12-14T18:56:00.001-06:002010-12-14T18:56:00.196-06:00Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- Pooh's Little Instruction BookGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-20918913892206181242010-12-12T00:34:00.001-06:002010-12-12T00:34:00.412-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-59975340750613586672010-12-10T12:46:00.001-06:002010-12-10T12:46:00.153-06:00sour adversitySukarāni asādhūni,
attano ahitāni ca.
Yaṃ ve hitañca sādhuñca,
taṃ ve paramadukkaraṃ.
Easy to do are thingsthat are bad and harmful to oneself.But exceedingly difficult to doare things that are good and beneficial.
Dhammapada 12.163
L et me em
b ra ce t
h ee so ur ad
ver sit
y
fo r w i s e m
en sa y it is t
he w ise st co
u r s e.Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-76946562586665317962010-12-05T22:23:00.000-06:002010-12-05T22:23:37.965-06:00The idea that depression and other mental health conditions are caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain is so deeply ingrained in our psyche that it seems almost sacrilegious to question it....
It is, after all, a neat theory. It takes a complex and heterogeneous condition (depression) and boils it down to a simple imbalance of two to three neurotransmitters (out of more than 100 that Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-47047893686824356422010-12-04T18:51:00.001-06:002010-12-04T18:51:27.468-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-71925400721071756782010-11-27T05:42:00.010-06:002010-11-27T14:38:53.145-06:00marie-claire alain
Another of the Schübler chorales, like the below but by another organist. I ran across this organist in a cd I bought when I was 21 or so. Not sure what it is about these chorales. Unlike "Wo soll ich fliehen hin," which is sadder than this, there is a sweetness, a happy kindness to this one. The title is something like come now, deity, from heaven to us here-under. Sometimes I Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-45399038246701884512010-11-26T18:17:00.000-06:002010-11-26T18:17:28.272-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-82510764765178204912010-11-25T12:18:00.001-06:002010-11-25T15:23:23.743-06:00buy nothing dayMost days for me are buy nothing days but Friday Nov 25 also really buy nothing in unison.Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-54829771725818132342010-11-24T20:51:00.001-06:002010-11-24T21:01:44.736-06:00This is my friend. She is a fox. She is very dear. She lives on campus. Here she is summer before last beneath the windows of the old library, Williams Hall. Photo Daniel Enomoto. I've seen little foxes elsewhere in Normal, but never in daylight. Once walking on the sidewalk outside the Norfel apartments on Fell avenue, once outside the Wittenberg Lutheran Youth Center. I've seen many of them Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-59177562136700851182010-11-24T19:26:00.002-06:002010-11-24T19:28:57.352-06:00na paro paraṃ nikubbetha
nātimaññetha katthaci naṃ kañci byārosanā paṭighasaññā nāññamaññassa dukkhamiccheyya Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-9305821250381109782010-11-23T13:07:00.005-06:002010-11-24T12:39:31.977-06:00Wohin soll ich gehen vor deinem Geist, und wohin soll ich fliehen vor deinem Angesicht? Führe ich gen Himmel, so bist du da; bettete ich mich bei den Toten [among the dead].
Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-82717986451898425802010-11-23T01:51:00.001-06:002010-11-23T10:54:29.062-06:00mercy for turkeys"More than 300 million turkeys are killed in the U.S. every year - 40 million for Thanksgiving dinners alone. In nature, turkeys are protective and nurturing parents, as well as fast runners, who are able to use reason to outwit their pursuers. But most turkeys killed for food are raised in unnatural conditions, crammed by the thousands into windowless warehouses, where disease, smothering and Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-57711357171573946152010-11-22T18:20:00.001-06:002010-11-22T18:20:38.796-06:00Let me say here, up front -- if you haven't gotten the drift already -- that I am unabashedly fond of natural rivers.
- Tim Palmer, Rivers of CaliforniaGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-66953490389059184872010-11-22T16:57:00.002-06:002010-11-22T16:57:45.021-06:001963 Nov 22Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-1112461131784486762010-11-21T17:40:00.001-06:002010-11-24T14:39:48.650-06:00William James on Walt WhitmanThe below from Wm James’s 1902 masterwork THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: A STUDY IN HUMAN NATURE, specifically from one of the two lectures under the rubric "The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness" (notably James did not count himself among the "healthy minded" but felt he was one of the "sick souls," who had to be "twice-born") :
The supreme contemporary example of such an inability to feel Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-5842344177000262602010-11-20T22:19:00.001-06:002010-11-21T14:24:34.939-06:00March 23 1839 Boston: "o.k."okayGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-71933650519857716032010-11-20T15:39:00.004-06:002010-11-20T17:19:31.340-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-57238093945518684492010-11-19T20:35:00.000-06:002010-11-19T20:35:16.459-06:00radio interview about teaching in prisonsDanny Hajek, producer at WGLT and radio journalist, conducts an interview about my years teaching creative writing in prisons.Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-35751356801450227272010-11-19T14:56:00.001-06:002010-11-19T14:56:50.620-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-33580397855438905002010-11-19T14:45:00.001-06:002010-11-19T14:45:24.415-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-15805955706993979582010-11-19T01:52:00.001-06:002010-11-19T01:52:19.978-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-69164663547160259772010-11-18T23:13:00.000-06:002010-11-18T23:14:07.266-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-42101465453697277532010-11-18T15:51:00.001-06:002010-11-18T15:51:33.850-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-7172451775924901312010-11-18T10:01:00.000-06:002010-11-18T10:02:08.982-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-30284787157748842622010-11-17T13:31:00.001-06:002010-11-17T13:31:41.751-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-13137315022815294732010-11-16T20:32:00.001-06:002010-11-16T20:32:58.623-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-39395676918622403992010-11-15T13:35:00.003-06:002010-11-16T12:11:15.559-06:00In this same essay, [Freeman] Dyson writes,
"We are moving rapidly into the post-Darwinian era, when species other than our own will no longer exist, and the rules of Open Source sharing will be extended from the exchange of software to the exchange of genes. When species other than our own will no longer exist."
Has anyone else proposed such a future? Does anyone else want to live in it? Has Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-23012773813325646782010-11-14T11:35:00.002-06:002010-11-27T23:29:10.385-06:00renouncing the factory farming of animalsThe question is, if we don't say no to this, what do we say no to? If we don't say no to something that systematically abuses 50 billion animals, if we don't say no to the number-one cause of global warming, and not by a little bit, but by a lot, if we don't say no to what the UN has said is one of the top two or three causes of every significant environmental problem in the world, locally and Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-69721465270591675232010-11-13T18:37:00.004-06:002010-11-13T18:38:48.601-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-13862963615515203242010-11-12T15:19:00.000-06:002010-11-12T15:20:54.944-06:00.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-30465057328123089532010-11-12T13:47:00.001-06:002010-11-12T13:47:48.986-06:00vijaṭetito disentangle, untangle, disembroil, unravelGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-45865213163220630022010-11-08T17:55:00.003-06:002010-11-09T15:23:12.798-06:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-81306447209998455752010-11-05T11:20:00.000-05:002010-11-05T11:22:19.425-05:00cooper's hawk on bough above garageSent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-88152629795011120782010-11-03T10:57:00.001-05:002010-11-03T12:01:57.840-05:00working from home when sickIs there a political ecology of laughter?
Or more interestingly: "What Bennett's theories about the way human agency is really composed of a plethora of non-human agencies is that it provides us a way of theory comes closest to reformulating the nature of laughter as"
My poor students.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-40084827854399223632010-11-02T00:45:00.002-05:002010-11-02T17:56:29.561-05:00radiolab on interspecies empathy
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Okay, this is amazing. Make yourself a cup of tea and set aside an hour.
(BTW, Clive Wynne is wrong.)Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-73065254074036531992010-11-01T16:37:00.003-05:002010-11-01T21:59:43.019-05:00tarati"cp. Lat. termen, terminus, Gr. te/rma, te/rqron; also Lat. trans"
"to cross [a river], to surmount, overcome [the great flood of life, desire, ignorance]
to get to the other side, to cross over, as in crossing the ocean of suffering"Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-57438305763845564682010-11-01T11:17:00.000-05:002010-11-01T11:19:03.868-05:00the pleasures of kindnessSent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-64923128037580244912010-10-31T14:15:00.000-05:002010-10-31T14:15:13.266-05:00"no one gets to sit and just comprehend"
"for the sake of seeing human death"Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-36254107536156254382010-10-30T11:46:00.024-05:002010-10-30T17:41:47.344-05:00acchariyā abbhutā dhammā
There is no music attached to this short video. Preferable that way.
Roger Ebert, in a 1999 review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, one of the first movies I saw with my daughter, notes that we also turn from even external wonders: "How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story 'Nightfall,' about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-8215019079734214782010-10-29T22:00:00.004-05:002010-11-20T22:11:40.528-06:00on a happier dayGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-19929872147531553852010-10-29T21:59:00.002-05:002010-10-30T17:45:47.763-05:00Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-74052123141939288122010-10-28T22:47:00.002-05:002010-10-28T22:48:53.958-05:00
so little is our loss.... then / all this earthly grossness quit / attired with stars / we shall for ever / sit, triumphing / over death and chance and ... time. M[ilton] Why / desire to live another day? It / will be like the last: same / sun, same stars, same father, & / friends, nothing more to see. M[ontaigne]. p 42 The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, RWE, ed Ralph H OrthGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-51155551688404363062010-10-28T13:53:00.001-05:002010-10-29T10:37:40.958-05:00after the students leave intro to literary genresGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088814.post-81870204079358087022010-10-28T10:40:00.000-05:002010-10-29T11:40:58.204-05:00near the mazon river in a galeGabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900128372200795817noreply@blogger.com0