Today's Words to Ponder are from Taiye Selasi's wonderful Ted Talk, "Don't Ask Where I'm From. Ask Where I'm Local."
"All Identity is local.
All identity is experience.
Our experience is where we're from."
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The garden metaphor is pervasive as a picture of human development. Children grow, it is said, from seeds. With the right kind of nurturing, they will ”flower” and “bloom.” Think kindergarten.
I like the metaphor for how it evokes a unified process—the person-environment interface, rather than person on the one hand...
During the second half of 2022, Bayo Akomolafe and I had a series of recorded Zoom conversations, with my Institute colleague Janet Wootten spurring us on, Bayo and I both wanted to make these conversations public. and you can find slightly edited transcripts of them here, titled A Meandering Search for Method: Becoming Human in a...
May 31,2012
For the past three Tuesday evenings, I’ve been leading “Making a Conceptual Revolution: The Practical-Critical Philosophy of Fred Newman”—an offering in the Institute’s Revolutionary Conversations series. It’s been delightful spending time with 30+ people from varied walks of life and varied levels of familiarity with Newman and his work...
