01 Feb Words to Ponder # 39
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. Ursula K. Le Guin...
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17 Dec Words to Ponder #38
I don't read very much poetry, so I'm new to the work of Alberto Rios. So far I love the poems of his I've read—and these words I've been pondering. "I have been around other languages all my life, particularly Spanish, and have too often thought of the act of translation...
22 Jan Words to Ponder #36
These words, written twenty years ago by renowned social constructionist Ken Gergen, are surely worth pondering today. "In important degree, identity politics is a descendent of Western, individualist ideology. It is not the single individual who commands our interest in this case; rather individual identity is conflated with group identity. Individual...
05 Jul Words to Ponder #35
Today's words are from the improv pioneer Viola Spolin from over fifty years ago “Motivation is limited and subjective, it cuts the players off from ongoing stage life, and it implies that you have a reason for everything.” “Words can easily become labels, dead and useless. The word or subject matter should...
27 Apr Words to Ponder #34
Today's object of pondering is from Irshad Manji, author of Don't Label Me "You cannot get people to relate if all you’re going to do is berate." ...
04 Nov Words to Ponder #34
Today's quote is from Groucho, one of my two favorite Marx's. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ...
05 Jul Words to Ponder #33
At certain points in history, the paradigm that generated so much information comes to function as a hindrance to the use of that information. Fred Newman...
27 Jan Words to Ponder #32
Today's words juxtapose the profound and the everyday imagination of Mark Twain. I. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. II. One of my sorrows, when the summer ends, is that I must put off my cheery and comfortable white clothes and enter for the winter into...
09 Dec Words to Ponder #31
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Today's words are from psychologist Vesna Ognjenovic, whose long and full life dedicated to helping people to create a developmental and peaceful world ended this week. Her work and her inspiration continue! Vesna appeared in the video Performing the World 2007. A fellow follower of the revolutionary Vygotsky, Vesna had this...
11 Oct Words to Ponder #30
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Today's words are from Jackie Salit, President of IndependentVoting.org, the country’s leading strategy and organizing center for independents. Jackie's columns, talks and conversations cut through the mist that the news and its talking heads cover us with. This quote is from her essay, "Making Sense of the Senseless" (October 11, 2017). "The...