You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
God
Is Change
from Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents
What do I hope to accomplish with this blog? I would like to encourage a dialogue that enables people to communicate through the "stuff" of their life. What books do you read? What music do you plug into? In the past, was it the same? Are you in a state of stasis? I think most would find that their tastes and interests have evolved over the years. My thesis is that if we consider how we spend our time, we come to understand how we have evolved. Have you ever kept a journal? Then, years later you stumble upon it and realize that you can't completely identify with that person any longer, but the change was so incremental, you didn't even realize it was occurring. For me, it is the books I choose to read, the music I choose to soothe or excite me, and yes, the websites I choose to lurk around in that best reflect my interests and concerns as they now stand. It is culture, both with a capital "C" and a small "c". And so I invite you to blog with me about the ideas we come across, the thoughts that entertain us, the portals we enter when we are alone or with those close to us. Hopefully, a fruitful dialogue will emerge as we get to know one another.
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ReplyDeleteWhat is change is what has changed. After a few years, for me I tend to appreciate practical social and education experiences and barriers to these interactions as part problem and ultimate solution for positive change. In truth it begins to really matter at birth until about 6 years old. After the significant learning years, the learner struggles to simply climb the ladder of intelligence from a position of trying to keep up with a peer group. What makes a child an avid learner is what makes everybody self actualizing in the positive. To me this has been the discovery of the magical nature of learning "what it is" on all levels. It feels good and when it occurs no one denies it has happened. Whether it is rote memorization or recall of written text or unwinding complex mechanical, theoretical, psychological, biological systems the "brain housing group" gets a new wrinkle on Life's path.
ReplyDeleteRecently I've been feeling that little kids need to learn first about all the magic that surrounds them and that to understand this magic they go to school. First there is the universe and Earth's tiny place, energy, light, water, life, fire, temperature, magnetism, gravity, procreation, evolution of life, death ... on and on. For me education in classrooms could have been much simpler to perceive language, communication, math, biology, science, psychology, history as focused ways to learn about the magic that surrounds us as human inhabitants on the planet Earth circling the Sun.