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Review / reseña / crítica of El Pequeño Larousse Ilustrado 2006 (ISBN 8483327090) La versión multimedia (con CD-ROM) | Document | 2005-12-31 | 2006-01-04 | 2005-12-31 | |
Problems with and solutions for this encyclopedic dictionary--the CDROM in particular. | |||||
Blue and the Closed Door | Document | 2006-01-12 | 2006-01-12 | 2006-01-12 | |
An illustrated story made for my grandmother on her 90th birthday. ''Colin comes to live with Blue the cat, but is lazy about opening the door for Blue, until one day . . .'' I was inspired to make this book after reading some of the books of Eric Shanower (ericshanower.com), who swims at the same pool I do. | |||||
The Sacred Rac | Document | 2006-02-03 | 2006-02-05 | 1974-01-01 | |
A culture grows unsmall, unfurred unanimals. On smoothed, hardenend, sealed land, unanimals breed, undoing other kind. Blackened, empty land undams unanimals. | |||||
Reading Response: Thoreau | Document | 2006-02-03 | 2007-10-05 | 2005-09-13 | |
Thoreau's success as a teacher comes both from satirizing effectively the kinds of values that lead people away from finding the divine in the everyday and in his presentation of the quality of life thereby lost. He has created a spiritual text that we can meditate on to help us stay focused on living deeply. | |||||
Reading Response: Hawthorne (The House of Seven Gables) | Document | 2006-02-03 | 2006-02-03 | 2005-10-04 | |
The easterly storm that begins chapter 15 occurs in a context in which it suggests the following meanings: change, climax, destruction, purification, cruel fate, and the machinations of the author. | |||||
Reading Response: Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin) | Document | 2006-02-03 | 2006-02-03 | 2005-11-01 | |
I am gaining a perspective on life and on people that I have been partly missing because of the way my attention has been guided to focus as a biologically- and socially-gendered male. | |||||
Reading Response: Copway (from The Life of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh) | Document | 2006-02-03 | 2006-02-03 | 2005-11-22 | |
Copway's _Life_ is a continuation, given the limits and opportunities of his socialization among whites and the loss of his tribal existence, of the teaching practices of his father and of his tribe. | |||||
Enduring Values in _Death of a Salesman_ | Document | 2006-02-05 | 2006-02-14 | 2005-11-01 | |
While the failure of the Lomans to prosper is partly an indictment of their way of life, below the surface of failure appear values that could help the Lomans to thrive. Miller states that his play depicts an absence of values, thereby provoking the audience to consider what the Loman family is missing. However, enduring principles are in fact modeled in _Salesman_. | |||||
Subject: 12 tribes & Mali | Document | 2006-02-09 | 2008-03-05 | 2003-06-30 | |
A post to the DC Ishmael group. | |||||
Brainstorms on Earthfair, and on A larger vision of what our group could be | Document | 2006-02-11 | 2006-02-12 | 2006-02-05 | |
This was a post to the San Diego Ishmael yahoo group. The most memorable thought in here may be, ". . . what is more important than the relationship then, than _any_ relationship, is the community in which it occurs." This relates to a comment I made in an earlier paper, "In this tradition, which is founded upon belief in the independence and self-reliance of the individual, it is individual success, not community or family visioning, planning, and development, that is the means of resolving the problems of life." How can we raise a community culture in the manner others attempt to raise themselves or their relationships? Currently, for many people, work and church may provide their "patterns for living" (Clyde Kluckhohn). Can we make our own? What are the needs a successful pattern for living must address? | |||||
Another brainstorm / questioning on what the San Diego Ishmael group could become. | Document | 2006-02-12 | 2006-02-13 | 2006-02-12 | |
Many questions and some daydreams about the future of our small meetings. | |||||
Dickinson, Whitman, and Possibility | Document | 2006-02-12 | 2008-03-05 | 2005-12-06 | |
To be God-like is to create. Creating can be facilitated by discipline. Dickinson suggests that discipline consists in protecting and cultivating one's passion in a world that tends to impose shame. The fortunate live in communities which value prophets who model discipline that facilitates the passion of creating. Those even more fortunate also have poets who help them, like Dickinson, first to know passion, then to develop their own discipline to protect their passion and help it grow. From Whitman I want to learn how a man does something radically new, that others value. I may be less likely to learn from the professors than from Whitman how to create a role, a life, an anything, that has not been seen before, and is valued. | |||||
San Diego Leavers / SD Ishmael / Daniel Quinn family discussion | Document | 2006-02-18 | 2008-03-05 | 2005-07-09 | |
San Diego Ishmael is for people with an earnest desire to save the world. Daniel Quinn's _Ishmael_ series is the jumping off point for our development. Bring an idea or a book to share with us, or suggest an activity. All are welcome! | |||||
Having the drive. . . | Document | 2006-02-23 | 2006-04-14 | 2006-01-28 | |
A post to the sd ishmael group. | |||||
The Future Local Current Global Carfree Majority | Document | 2006-04-08 | 2006-04-14 | 2006-03-19 | |
This letter to the editor was published in the San Diego Union Tribune on Saturday, March 25, 2006. It incorporates in few words elements of the argument for carfree living and planning, and may be somewhat rhetorically effective? You tell me. | |||||
Another brainstorming / visioning about the group | Document | 2006-05-08 | 2006-05-08 | 2006-05-08 | |
Where we might go next-- after "nothing?" and related visions. | |||||
A Pedagogy of the Distracted, a Rhetoric of Agendas: Helping Students Get into Writing in spite of--or by Working with--Distractions | Document | 2006-09-02 | 2006-09-02 | 2006-09-02 | |
Students can be helped to focus on their writing by encouraging them: to write and keep writing without erasing; to use writing about distraction as a way into writing; to view writing as a transgressive act; to consider the agendas leading to the existence of the classroom community and to the writing they do for the course; and to develop and use their own agendas as a way into writing. I model these approaches in the composition of this text and in my thoughts about how to integrate within the composition course my agendas to help students become both: (1) better writers and readers and (2) leaders who develop leaders, who see their individual growth as dependent upon the growth of the others in their communities. | |||||
No Destination and Ecovillage Living | Document | 2006-12-10 | 2006-12-11 | 2006-12-10 | |
A summary sharing my excitement for and some related links from _No Destination_ by Satish Kumar, and _Ecovillage Living_. | |||||
Permaculture Projects | Document | 2007-02-21 | 2008-03-05 | 2007-02-21 | |
A pointer to Colin's current permaculture focus. | |||||
Electric Warriors bike happenings (w/ the Cretins, the Nutter Buckets, and the Kutters) | Document | 2007-02-21 | 2007-02-21 | 2007-02-21 | |
About the bike happenings and the day I found the bike prom. | |||||
Today is / a No Car day / enjoy your Pure Land: Plum Village and all of its monasteries have established weekly no car days | Document | 2007-03-05 | 2007-06-25 | 2007-03-05 | |
I was despairing, then during morning practice I remembered Deer Park Monastery. When I looked them up, I found this. | |||||
10 m2 within 3m of every door + rainwater collection | Document | 2007-03-06 | 2007-08-21 | 2007-03-06 | |
Aided by the fishbowl discussion of Saturday's Food Not Lawns / Cultivating Food Justice conference, I developed the following vision. | |||||
"May I help us be at peace." and the complementarity of buddhism and permaculture | Document | 2007-06-23 | 2007-07-06 | 2007-06-23 | |
There are ways to use or to hold the body-mind to be at peace. | |||||
The Walking Sangha & carfree camp: we free people to walk to centers of earthcare and peoplecare (a proposal for a skill-sharing community) | Document | 2007-06-23 | 2007-07-06 | 2007-06-23 | |
The Walking Sangha I am a part of in Los Padres National Forest supports walkers heading to Quail Springs Permaculture Farm and to other sites between there and Ojai and Santa Barbara. We make our life in the forest itself a practice, keeping time for silence, for trail work or walking, and for sharing. We also help Quail Springs care for their land and community. At least two thirds of our time is spent in roadless areas. | |||||
Colin's fourth update: What I learned in the past two and a half years. | Document | 2007-06-23 | 2007-06-25 | 2007-06-23 | |
I learned to sit. I grew a garden. Permaculture and buddhism may help us be at peace. |