Category Archives: 06/25/2020

Neil Postman and Charles Weingartnerwrote Teaching As A Subversive Activity,but it could have been entitled,”Living As A Subversive Activity,”because it is up to all of usto “subvert attitudes, beliefs and assumptionsthat foster chaos and uselessness”(Their words in their book).They say, “(Students) are almost never requiredto make observations, formulate definitions,or perform any intellectual operationsthat go beyondContinue reading “May 03, 2024 – B”

Something always wants to be heard.Something always has something to say.When do we ever get to just be here, now,sitting still,touching the groundlike the Buddha under the Bo Treegrounding himself here, now–being here/now forever?Standing with the sunflowerswith nothing better to dothan be here/now forever?Moving between this nowand the next nowwith nothing better to dothat moveContinue reading “May 03, 2024 – A”

Meaning is ascribed, assigned, imposed.We are told what is meaningful.Religion consists of believing what someone else has said to be so.So does education.The clergy, the teachers, give to the laity, the students, meanings that have been ascribed and assigned to statements by other clergy-types/teachers through the ages.No clergy-type/teacher ever asks a lay person/student about theContinue reading “May 02, 2024 – B”

Beauty is all around us much of the time.Our place is to make ourselves available to it.To be present with what is present with us.Ann Weiser Cornell says that “In Presence,we are listeners. In Presence we can listen with interest and acceptance to whatever arises.”Without taking sides or forcing outcomes.It works well with everything,as aContinue reading “May 02, 2024 – A”

When we take something on faithwe are enfolding it into our imagination.We are saying “I am going to imagine this to be so–pretend this to be so–because I want it to be so.And I am going to tell myself that it is so,whether it is or not.”Since you can’t prove to me that it isn’tContinue reading “May 01, 2024 – B”

I can’t wait to be really old,things are getting more interesting by the day.The post previous to this oneis listed as “April 31, 2024.”As though there are 31 days in April.Made perfect sense to me.Yesterday.The more Right-brained I get,the less Left-brained I become,and living Right-brainedin a Left-brain worldis no way to get around.So, I’m backContinue reading “May 2024”

Do you see the old womanor the young maiden?Keep looking until you see both,and how you can’t see bothat the same time.You can only see one at a time,and know about the other one,switching back and forth eternally.Life is that way.We look and see one thing.We look again and see another thing.Death is where weContinue reading “May 01, 2024 – A”

What does thinking about what we think aboutkeep us from thinking about?We tend to repeat the same conversationsweek after week.When is the last time we had a new idea?A realization?What can you imagine doingthat would make you accessibleto your imagination?If you were to have a conversationwith me in your mind,what would we talk about?Imagine theContinue reading “April 31, 2024 – A”

No matter how we cut it,look at it,size it up,think about it,perceive it,etc.,it comes down to beingimmovably stuck in the Julie Andrews Dichotomy. As Mary Poppins it is,”Anything can happen if you let it!”As Maria von Trapp it is,”How do you solve a problem like Maria?””How do you keep a wave upon the sand?””How doContinue reading “April 30, 2024 – B”

We are never more than a slight perspective shift awayfrom having it made.Changing our mind about what is importantis all it takes.Reflecting on our motives for not doing thatuntil we come to new realizationsis the only thing standing between usand “a new world, Golda, a brand new world.”That is not asking too much. –0–

We live to see what we can get by with–just like Jesus,who was called “a glutton and a wine-bibber,”which was the term of the dayfor “beyond parental control.”Jesus was beyond anyone’s control,and his turning over the tables of the moneychangers during the high festival season of Passoverwas the last strawand got him crucified.That was aContinue reading “April 29, 2024 – A”

I took this picture in 2015because in 2014 (our first trip) I was so captivated by the scenethat I paid absolutely no attention to the process of photographing the sceneand being awestruck resulted in every photograph–and there be many–lacking a discernible point of focus.I wasn’t focused on focusing the camera!So we went back.Going back wasContinue reading “April 28, 2024 – B”