The life of sensation is the life of greed, it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.
Annie Dillard
July 16th, 2012
July 12th, 2012
Whatever the reasons behind the collapse of handwriting, college students no longer think it is their responsibility to write legibly. Give a regular blue book exam and a dozen students or so will warn you that their “handwriting is terrible” as if that is something for which the professor now has to take responsibility.
Readers: should handwriting be taught? And if students can’t do it, should there be remedial handwriting classes in college?
Writing By Hand: the Lost Art - Tenured Radical - The Chronicle of Higher Education
My sister, who taught AP English for seven years, teaches her three sons handwriting as part of their homeschool curriculum. These young lads have stellar penmanship and it always astounds me how well they write.
But even more surprising is the joy they receive from recording experiments in their field journals and adventure logs. I’m not sure if the craft of penmanship is connected explicitly to their joy, but I have to believe the instruction they received and the creative world that opened up as a result of this new “tool” should be something every kid should experience.
I don’t have great handwriting, but there’s something earthen and “real” about writing words with my hand in my journal.
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To respond to the world justly, you first have to perceive it clearly, and this requires a kind of “unselfing.
Iris Murdoch
July 10th, 2012
July 7th, 2012
Have we lost our creative mojo?
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more than 95 theses: Andy Griffith
People are going to think this is maudlin or just plain silly, but I think I need to say it: I learned a lot about being a father from Andy Griffith. Or rather from Andy Taylor, the character he played on The Andy Griffith Show. (I owe as much to the show’s writers as to the actor.)
My own…
July 6th, 2012
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
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Clever or Wise?
Our lives are spinning at the mind-blowing speed of technology. Let’s dare to make time to surrender and rest in stillness, silence and inner solitude—letting change take root in us, so that change might happen in the world.
In the poetic, enlightened words, “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~ Rumi
(photo credit: Danielle Powell)
July 5th, 2012
