Monthly Archives: January 2015

Insightful article by Susan Pinker in NY Times, Jan. 30/15 As said here earlier, e-technology ain’t no panacea. Key questions are: How much does e-technology actually influence classroom learning positively progression-wise? What is the concrete evidence to support that a … Continue reading →

To begin with every page is blank except for Rod looking cool & alone searching for his cat Sunny. Clouds form as Rod walks barefoot on a beach in Califorrnia. Man of few trite words & fewer thoughts. Bard of … Continue reading →

Anne Frank 15                                                                                                                                    Joan of Arc 19 John Keats 25                                                                                                                                           Percy Shelley 29                                                                                                                                     Gericault 33                                                                                                                                                Mozart 35 Lord Byron 36                                                                                                                                        Robert Burns 37 Raphael 37 van Gogh 37 Martin Luther King, Jr. 39 Jane Austen 42 Chekhov 44 Oscar Wilde … Continue reading →

And weary I was, awakening again to I feel, therefore I am. Stood in the rain beneath a tree reconsidering the ruins and haunts of all that I have seen or been. But most, the light that moved and changed … Continue reading →

my 3-year-old grandson recently discovered the joys of decorating a gingerbread man and reading a book about him. Why rob kids of their primary imagination and natural creativity before they even get to kindergarten? .

How far we are today from Voltaire’s “One word in the wrong place will ruin the most beautiful thought.”

the self-evident truths become fewer and irrelevant to the mass of people. As Orwell predicted, obfuscation has replaced enlightenment.

realize how much our modern life is based on nuisance, distraction, and exploitation.

A Civilized Life.

True Independence and Meaningful Autonomy. Auteurship of One’s Life.