(in/ex)hale

breathing earth

i like words

and most of these are flippin' crazy

educational system paradigm shift...GO!

brilliant. it's forward thinkers like Sir Ken Robinson that we need at the head of this country's movers and shakers.

i think i first had a thought similar to this when reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a few years ago. Here is a child, skipping school bc of the recent loss of his father. brilliant in that not only is he self-healing in an almost perfect fashion, but he is dodging time spent in a system that is so archaic and rigid that it suits almost no one anymore. He is exploring and discovering and solving a mystery that has meaning to him and figuring out what things matter to him and why!

of course, reading the Ishmael series only furthered these thoughts. it's times like these when i want to say "screw it!" and start teaching young kids and get them EXCITED about learning. about learning the RIGHT stuff. about being excited about things they like, and so much so that they take it upon themselves to learn and do more. this is why my friends are interesting. bc they've made time to think like this OUTSIDE of school. to become involved in LIFE, not in a system whose sole purpose is monetary gain (or rather "stability," of which our society has very little of right now).

LET'S ALL WAKE UP!



this is another man changing the way children learn and learn to love to learn. absolutely brilliant.
eggers

sing me to sleep

Memories fire
The rhythms fall slow

the trick is, when you spill something, make it look like part of the act.

"Does the moon have a purpose?" she inquired of Prince Charming.

Prince Charming pretended that she had asked a silly question. Perhaps she had. The same query put to the Remington SL3 elicited this response:

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.

Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end.

Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.

There is only one question. And that is:

Who knows how to make love stay?

Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.
Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the beginning and the end of time.
Answer me that and I will reveal to you the purpose of the moon.

great!

Brass Bed - "Begs Me Not to Beg" Music Video from Allison Bohl on Vimeo.

sartres

The basis of Sartrean freedom is ontological: we are free because we are not a self (an in-itself) but a presence-to-self (the transcendence or “nihilation” of our self). This implies that we are “other” to our selves, that whatever we are or whatever others may ascribe to us, we are “in the manner of not being it,” that is, in the manner of being able to assume a perspective in its regard. This inner distance reflects not only the nonself-identity of the for-itself and the ecstatic temporality that it generates but forms the site of what Sartre calls “freedom as the definition of man.” To that freedom corresponds a coextensive responsibility. We are responsible for our “world” as the horizon of meaning in which we operate and thus for everything in it insofar as their meaning and value are assigned by virtue of our life-orienting fundamental “choice.”
-Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy