The diesel electric trains that no longer carry people unless you consider corporations are people. Season sounds: Cicadas, the silent blink of fireflies, the dusty whirr of a hummingbird moth, automatic rifle fire of our neighbors a mile away because it's open season on the moon, the creak of ice cracking open another red oak weakened by ants and climate change, the silence of our nearest neighbor's home, abandoned by family and mind and sent to a another 'home' that no one in their right mind would call home.

Difficult. I would like to say, "You think you have problems..." But I know we all got problems. Here they don't tend to be First world problems. They are our problems Rural. Flyover. Crumbling social and physical infrastructure. Bad net access. Opioids on top of the karst of misery and poverty Dead agri-culture. Our kids leaving us behind and telling us to get off the farm and see the real world before it is too late. And this layered on the extinction and all the signs of catastrophe: bats gone pollinators gone planting zones changing ash trees and red oak and so much die off that we never see and will never know because as a race we are just as ignorant as a box of creek rock.

The old Wilson Right of Way, Rocky Hill Road that used to be a mule wagon trail and then a gravel road and then a chip and seal road and then a paved road and will I assume become a vanishing track in the coming apocalypse. And Raider Hollar Road where I have been the first one to come upon my dead students in auto accidents. I call upon their ghosts to warn next generations of students of the futility of trying to be on time to school or job or any other goddamned deadline. "You will die," they should screech, "you will die. I know because I did." Over and over. And the old road across our friends' farm who we don't see anymore because they have locked their farm gates to everyone. Why? Who knows? See above. You have to ask them and they can't be reached.

Willy's sawmill up the hill, Rocky's Convenience Story in Bonnieville, Free coffee on Tuesday's at the Amish Store in Cub Run, And a lot of nowhere ad hoc places where someone has just hunker'd down for some beef jerky and sip from a flask but not a Hydroflask, got it?

Some of them are involuntary entrepreneurs. Some cook meth Some are retired (aka card carrying members of the precariat but not AARP because who can afford that?) Some farm Some hide from the rest of us down long pitiful snaking gravel roads with bad dogs and guns at the end of them. This is just what some of them do for work. What they really do, you will have to ask them.

Earth and green and all the smells that most folk think should be driven from our noses. There is always dirt and scroffle from the fields and the garden Get the fuck over it and learn to love the wild tang of life.

And don't forget to be brisk, and fair, in your pace across this idea of home, yes, so far, it has been brisk unless I pause the pace to take my meatsack "I" into the realz to my homes, Holmes.

No problem. Not hard to make that promise. I won't think too hard I am well-verse in being unversed in the universe. Those are the merciless words that bounce off the ether of this 'prompt'. LOL. Prompt. Thoughtless. skipping.

Already done. Already doing. Already will do. I am a stone skipping across that pond each of these text boxes one more skip waiting to peter out and then to sink like the stone thought that it is into the murky dark below.

adult coloring book Procrustean and potential and limiting and limited but oddly satisfying like the sound of water condensing on a metal roof and dripping down in random drops..drops.........drops.drops.........

OK, I will worksheet my understanding into a series of corrales called text boxes, just so many sheepish thoughts milling about, Flocked and bleating, calling out to other thoughts in other boxes waiting to be sorted waiting to be bought by some slaughter house for consumption frightened by strange smells and even stranger others thougths in the worksheet

I live in the seat in front of my computer writing this about homes. I live in the kitchen make a meal for my wife for work. I live on the front porch swing drinking coffee and watching and listening to the morning sensorium. I live in the care that takes me to work and back I live in the office.... so where is that aggregate called home. Home. What is this think called home?

A hill A hollar A home as I have watched trees grow from a whip to a giant. I have watched trees grow in a canopy cathedral blocking out the sun in thin thread of a field.

Home. Where I started. Home. Where I ended. My dad died in his home of 60 years. My sister will sell it. Will it just become a place where I once lived.

How do all of these memories of places I have called home fit into a larger sense of home?

My response is in the margins.

It might also be fun to expand what "response" means.

Gifs, images, memes, YouTubes, audio,

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Here's one way it does it for me.

Perhaps we don't need to tolerate the intolerant?

Anybody else reminded of a tick firnly embedded in the skin? wonder about this word. Also reminded of embedded reporters in war zones.

And what has changed? Still rhizomially turgid acaspeak.

LOL Not really closed, is it?

What is a death spiral?

Questions for my students on the first day of class this fall:

1. How do you feel about being called on in class?
2. Why am I calling on you in class?
3. How do you feel about being called upon in class?
4. How can you avoid being called upon in class?
5. What might we do to create an ecosystem that is good for participation?
6. What kinds of questions might you think are safe ones to ask?
7. How might you help monitor questions in class?
8. What do we do when the crickets come a-calling?
9. What can we do in small and large groups to answer questions?
10. What have you seen done to promote safe and friendly questioning?

Here is an August 15 article that references the Larkin and Pines article. Get woke, folk, then get folk woke.

https://youtu.be/dzamiMpzVko

I think we need to have more open discussions about how we use any pedagogical tool in the classroom. My god I use so many that I don't even reflect upon anymore.

I have never thought of questions as a weapon or a tactic to be weaponized. I know that it is a powerful tool and as such is capable of abuse. I think the point here is that we need to consider or own intent in asking a question AND that we need to consider the different kinds of questioning we might do. I have had students answer questions on twitter, on index cards, in Google forms, through pair and share and more.

Yes, and even yesterday at a PD for the newest version of Blackboard. As the Buddhists say, "Monkeymind." Interesting that they start by asking a question. Of course, if you have a social bookmarking tool like this one, you can answer the question. My question back atcha: Is asking F2F different from asking online? Do same caveats suggested in the rest of this article apply to here?

So glad to have a few fine folk with me here.

Devilish details watch here: what constitutes public-facing scholarship in a regional university and how do we engage others with it and in it?

I might also add 'respecting' here.

Need to look these over.

Amen to this. But that devil in the details, well....how do we do this? How has it been done in the past? How are others doing it now?

I think the public speaking bureau for AP English classes is an example of public humanities...sort of. How could my English Department engage (gak, what a buzzword) with a public audience so that the only voice they hear about public higher education isn't our martinet-in-chief, Gubernator Bevin

Now this is a radical idea for a Tier 1 research institution, but it shouldn't be for Western. Actively and publicly spreading the good news about the humanities and our research, is not marketing and branding. It is collaboration and we have to make certain that more of the public feel part of that collaboration

I am reminded of the readers at Cuban cigar factories. Now that is public humanities!

https://youtu.be/nkcy2nyPFDE

Here is her webpage.

Her Twitter handle: @DevoneyLooser

Is there a "private humanities"?

The temptation is so great to like and retweet without consideration. So easy to assume the preview is enough. It is not enough. Reciprocation and honoring the work of others should be a skill taught to everyone. It will be one of the skills I will work toward with my students this coming semester.

Is this the same as being skeptical? They seem very different to me. The former is active. The latter is passive.

I don't think this is quite right. It is not how they think but how they feel that matters. The "wake" of personal data is aggregated in the form of how they feel.

Yes, it is easier to feel your way through an issue than it is to do the hard work of evaluating research or an argumentative position.

I wonder about the use of the "ecosystem" metaphor. And by wonder I mean to ask, "Has the concept become a victim of what Jonathan Haidt calls concept creep.?

Another resource on agnotology. for those of us who prefer to NOT rely on danah boyd as an expert here.

Exactly the same experience teaching research seeking behavior: nobody wants to go past the first page of Google. Doing so is the bare minimum along the path to excellence that we say we want in higher education.

A manifesto for me and mine, a happy antidote to an age of collapse.

D.

B. and C.

A

This is why Lakoff never names the president--the Voldemort Effect. Sayeth not his name for he is legion.

This is a primary setting on your BS detector. I am imagining a visual here of a multimeter where one of the lines on it is the Lakoff setting.

Show students the various ways propagandists manipulate audiences rather than fighting back against specific propaganda. Give folks a bullshit detector and they will detect forever.

Be primed and ready with a clear and correct information signal.

Why am I not following him on Twitter. Well, I am now.

The word 'machine' implies a designer and a purpose.

testing

I wonder what they mean.

The word is so abuse, misused, and contused as to be no longer useful. Too bad. I used to love it,

You mean like this: https://www.emaze.com/@ALWRQLCT/f5f-mc2

I wanted to comment but could not figure out how to do it. I thought I had an account here but apparently not.

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This is very much an incomplete blog post, a way into Hypothes.is. Sort of.

This is a devastating critique of historical causation. I haven't trusted history since I read Hume as an undergrad. Hume's idea of constant conjunction really blows a hole in history's claim to be able to explain and in its claim that we need to know it in order to not repeat it. As if...

Some have called them 'perennial questions', but I think the idea of accursed questions is so wonderfully Russky.

Such an egotistical voice here: I noticed something no one else did. How smart am I, how dumb are they.

Or is this observation warranted? Again, so what if we have not paid adequate attention? Well, I think he just wants to point out the important fact that others have missed--not just a revisionist historian or a propagandist.

Proteus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus

https://pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/DstF.Puw.lct.htm#DstF.Puw.lct

Emerson is a hedgehog. Whitman is a fox.

As with all binaries, we err, but the distinction is still useful.

Computers are hedgehogs, ones and zeroes. Quantum computers are foxes, multivariant

What an amazing sentence!

This is the line I remember first hearing from my political science professor, Larry Matheny.

Amazing. Jasper Ridley was a prolific writer, yet I have never heard of him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Ridley

Precioius little to indicate anyone or anything has improved teaching and learning in any way over the past five years.

Solidarity: in 1963-1966 I was a paperboy in Louisville, KY.

Love the text, not sure about the image. Lots of fists. Is this a response to trauma. Yeah, sometimes it is. Protect the self, fight for the self, defend each other.

You can all but hear the buzz of the fly here.

There is no near adjacency from humanity to life. We are the death bringers. But some might argue that we are so close to being able to supply this life. Robert is so close to being god.

or any ultimate bub.

What if it be thoughtful cruelty or thoughtless kindness?

I want to know if there is anybody who has gone from this "Moses" work into something further. Is there anyone who can model the work that needs to be done to carry Dan's work into the promised land. Step up!

The curse of the Tower of Babel is not that it was created, but that we are doomed to re-create it. Sisyphus rolling the ball up the hill and...no teamwork. I think Obama should have stayed in Chicago and stayed a community organizer and done this work, a life's work just like you have made it. He would made more of a difference.

Emergent MOOC!

Or as Jarche would put it:

Step One: Seek information in the "library" Step Two: Make sense of that information in ways that appeal to others who are seeking information. Step Three: Share that information and facilitate its use. Step Four: Amplify and reinforce the work of those using the first three steps.

Help Dan:

Twitter Instagram Snapchat Tiktok Blogs

And the problems morph and mount and fill all the available space.

Put lever on fulcrum here!

Better wins!

Manifold and multiplicative wins. Leveraging wins for others!

Always a win!

One ring to rule them all.

A win again!

A win!

Where are the spaces where this can happen?

Not elevators. Just kidding, but we need to ask where we can talk so as to be heard.

How in God's name can we do a damned thing about climate change in ten years if we can sustain the investment of time to support kids moving through K-12. Our institutional frames aren't doing this. We need new institutional frames.

I am a mole, a mole.

I dig under

your research agenda

as if it never was.

My annotatory take on the affinity space of the page: me, the authors and now you, too, in this text box affinity space inside the blog affinity space in th comments. Boxes inside of boxes inside of boxes with permeable margins in a feldgang that keeps on going.

Metaphors gone wild:

a lens

a pivot

a door

a path

maybe even an elephant in the room?

I don't care how good the pedagogic tool is in theory, if it is just another way to run out the semester clock and make it appear that we are making all the right moves, then I say to hell with that tool. I'd rather improvise than use a tool I don't really believe in.

We often talk about teachable moments for our learners but we don't extol the same learnable moments for teachers. Kinda points to the stark and happy truth that we are all learners under the skin. All of us. I worry about all those moments that I miss.

I love instructor's who "ante up" and then raise the ante.

Yes, rationalizing is so important--for yourself and for others. If he didn't find the tool useful he should have said that as well.

Caring...yes, he seemed to care at the beginning but fell victim to my biggest teaching challenge: biting off more that I or, more importantly, what my students can chew in one class. I think we need to do trial balloons for these techniques, ask them if they thought they were useful, and then proceed from there with using them regularly or not.

The quizzes have to be low stakes and highly relateable.

My experience <------------>Course practices: this survey will connect me. No. I will connect them myself. This is a common mistake to put the teacher cart before the learner horse. It is wrong to assume that just because teachers 'teach' that learners will learn. Wrong.

You are your own potentiometer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXKE0nAMmg4

split, your universe was split or at least creased like a piece of paper stained and folded into a new universe.

Only bloody art is never lost. Bloodless art is will and truly riddance to rubbish.

I love the passive voice here. Fate.

Professional development "contains inescapable tensions" for all teachers, especially outsiders. I have always been struck by how ed schools have ignored the work of those in adult training and learning research. That field notes the primacy of informal training over formal training. Is this the tension our authors speak of? Personally, formal training PD meant jack squat unless it coincided with helping me solve a particular problem I am not sure how this is 'paradoxical'.

What does this mean?

J-schools. Just look at the great response David Sirota got with his unearthing of funding for O'Rourke and Cruz in the Texas race. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/22/beto-orourke-voting-record-2020-election-democrats

Amen, someone stand up and help.

Amen, I stand among those motivated and continuing to learn.

Challenge = Sacrifices = Purpose and Worth

https://goo.gl/hCgJx6

I feel like I am on a tilt-a-whirl as I look at this and when I go inside it I feel the forces throwing me ever outward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiFp2ekEiUs

What does this word mean generally? And specifically in this context? If it just about money, then it is perfectly understandable that there is no money entering the O-Zones. But what if we had many different definitions of "investment" and analyzed accordingly?

Researchers can also use maps long term as a way to demonstrate economic gain or loss. Your mappings are invaluable for just that one reason.

Some observations from outside:

Step five: draw conclusions from the maps, i.e. what do the maps tell us about the answer to the questions in Step Two?

Step four: find a way to share and then...share.

Step three: consult the network.

Step two: ask good questions relating to something actionable.

First step: connect to something I know about or know how to do.

Leveraging: look here for a history of its frequency--hockey stick!

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=leveraging&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=6&share&

I might argue that what you need to do is to bring more folks into the room.

Apt section of "Clueless": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndv1UfKIluw

I think this is the key: find out what you gonna do, Boo.

There is actually a Wikipedia article addressing this proverb.

https://youtu.be/dOvVwdP71CI

I was unfamiliar with trendsmaps: https://www.trendsmap.com/local/us/chicago?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=al&utm_term=h##liveaturban

I put this in my Tweetdeck and also followed @urbaninstitute. In the process I discover a blind spot: I complain about how most people have a 'flyover' attitude about rural areas maybe I have the same attitude toward urban areas.

This is your service project.

laying the stones of social capital across the chasm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNAB3V80ZvU

Yes, and I with you and others, too.

As will I...

Do you know how to access your syllabus in TOPNET?

I wonder what is the tension between us in #modigiwri. What conversations are being inspired? What conversations need to be inspired in our spaces? What problems should we be addressing? What are our unique problems arising from our own spaces?

OED defines:

click, v.1

(klɪk)

[Found only since 16th c.: it agrees in form and sense with Du., LG., dial. Ger. klikken; also partly in sense with OF. cliquer (Cotgr.). How far these are connected is uncertain: the word is of echoic origin, and may have arisen independently in different langs. In English and Teutonic generally, it appears to stand in ablaut relation to clack, as expressing a thinner and lighter sound; cf. chip, chap, clip, clap, clink, clank.]

1. a.1.a intr. To make the thin, dry, hard sound described under click n.1 1; spec. of a camera or of a person operating one. Also (in various senses) with following adv.

   1611 Cotgr., Cliquer, to clacke, clap, clatter, clicke it.    a 1682 [see clicking ppl. a.]    1714 Gay Sheph. Week Frid. 101 The solemn death-watch click'd the hour she died.    1816 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) II. 302 It clicks as if it was walking in pattens.    1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxiii. (1856) 287 The ice sounded‥ like some one hammering a nail against the ship's side, clicking at regular intervals.    1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem ii. 32 Desire clicks back Like cuckoo into clock.    1937 C. Beaton Diary 3 June in Wand. Years (1961) 311, I clicked away.    1948 Mind LVII. 485 After trying to recall a face, one often says, ‘Ah, now I remember the man you mean.’ In such cases we seem to feel something happen: something, as it were, clicks to.    1950 D. Gascoyne Vagrant 14 When Abbott's camera clicked.

b.1.b with object of result.

   1819 Crabbe T. of Hall x. Wks. 1834 VI. 236 Who would bear his chains And hear them clicking every wretched hour.    a 1832 ― Posth. T. Wks. VIII. 17 The clock that both by night and day Click'd the short moments.

c.1.c Of a horse: see click n.1 3.

   1713 Lond. Gaz. No. 5170/4 Sometimes clicks in his Pace.

d.1.d fig. To meet or fall in with (a person) fortunately or at the right moment; to be successful; to fit together or agree exactly; to become friendly with someone; to strike up a rapport with (a person); to be a success in the theatre or other form of entertainment. colloq.

   1915 T. Burke Nights in Town 107 The bright boys‥saunter‥up and down that parade until they ‘click’ with one of the ‘birds’.    Ibid. 108 You have ‘clicked’. You have ‘got off’.    1921 Wodehouse Jill the Reckless viii. 120 A grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry.    1922 ― (title) The Clicking of Cuthbert.    1923 ― Inimit. Jeeves iv. 40 ‘Did you click?’ He sighed heavily. ‘If you mean was I successful, I must answer in the negative.’    1926 Amer. Speech I. 436/2 [Show business slang]. A turn is said to click when it proves to be successful, or in the vernacular, ‘gets across with a bang’.    1927 Vanity Fair Nov. 67/2 He doesn't hope that he makes good. He hopes that he ‘clicks’. He trusts that he doesn't ‘flop’.    1930 Times 29 Mar. 10/4 The objects are arranged but not composed‥so that they remind you a little of people assembled harmoniously but lacking some common emotion. They don't ‘click’.    1931 J. Cannan High Table xi. 164 Getting drunk when he was trying to click with a Glasgow buyer.    1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. vii. 208 Receiving the glad eye from presumably attractive girls with whom he ultimately and triumphantly ‘clicks’.    1952 V. Gollancz My Dear Timothy xx. 316 To prove satisfactorily that a lot of these devices wouldn't ‘click’.    1958 Observer 20 Apr. 14/6 Put out under pressure to fill the gap‥it [sc. the B.B.C. television programme To-Night] clicked instantly and is still the pride of British television.

e.1.e To come in for something; spec. to get killed. Mil. colloq.

   1917 Empey From Fire Step 81, No. 1 Section had clicked for another blinking digging party.    1917 W. Muir Observ. Orderly 226 To click can be either advantageous or baneful, according to the circumstances. A soldier asks a superior for a favour, and it is granted. That soldier has clicked.‥ But he has also clicked if he is suddenly seized on to do some menial duty.    1919 Athenæum 11 July 582/2 The verb ‘click’‥has developed some passive meanings, such as to get killed.    Ibid. 8 Aug. 729/1 To ‘click for fatigue’ is to ‘come in for’ a fatigue duty at the psychological moment.    1966 Listener 22 Dec. 927/1, I came out of hibernation‥to find that I had clicked for a most alarming job.

f.1.f To become pregnant, to conceive. colloq.

   1936 N. Coward Fumed Oak ii. ii. 58 A couple of months later you'd told me you'd clicked, you cried a hell of a lot, I remember.    1954 Landfall VIII. 228 In Wellington, just before he came down there was Heather, who had ‘clicked for a baby’.

g.1.g To ‘ring a bell’, fall into context. colloq.

   1939 ‘M. Innes’ Stop Press ii. iv. 269 Something clicks. Tell me.    1960 A. Burgess Right to Answer ii. 37 Then the name clicked, because somebody in the town had talked about Everett.

1. a.2.a trans. To strike with a click; to cause (anything) to make such a noise.

   1581 T. Lovell Dial. Dancing, He trips her toe, and clicks her cheek, to show what he doth crave.    1605 B. Jonson Sejanus ii. ii, Jove‥at the stroke click'd all his marble thumbs.    1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. viii. 124 Humble your selves, and click your Chains to th' ground.    1830 Marryat King's Own xxxiv, They‥clicked their glasses together.    1830 Tennyson Owl, Merry milkmaids click the latch.    1918 W. Owen Let. 20 Mar. (1967) 541 Mrs. A. can click the piano quite quickly.    1930 C. V. Grimmett Getting Wickets iii. 59 The method of spinning is similar to that used in clicking the finger and thumb to attract attention.    1936 Wodehouse Laughing Gas xviii. 203 He was clicking his tongue in gentle self-reproach.    1938 J. Hilton To You, Mr. Chips i. 51 No upstart authority has yet compelled him to click his heels and begin the day with juju incantations of Heils and Vivas.    1958 M. L. Hall et al. Newnes Complete Amat. Photogr. 156 All one has to do is to point the camera and click the shutter.

b.2.b Also with adv., as click out, click up, etc.

   1895 Westm. Gaz. 17 Apr. 8/1 How assiduously some of the political typists must have been clicking out these words of late.    1930 ‘A. Armstrong’ Taxi v. 46 And so for the next seven years the meters clicked up 1/- a mile.    1962 J. Dill in Into Orbit p. xix, A robot could easily click off pictures automatically or take measurements of radiation and heat.

c.2.c To get, receive. Mil. colloq.

   1917 Empey From Fire Step 39 Shut your blinkin' mouth, you bloomin' idiot; do you want us to click it from the Boches?    Ibid. 65 Trench mortars started dropping ‘Minnies’ in our front line. We clicked several casualties.    1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target xxx. 213 They tell me Micca's a good picquet to click.

3.3 techn. To rule with a machine pen, the wheel of which clicks.

   1869 Eng. Mech. 5 Nov. 166/1 This operation of clicking [i.e. ruling the pattern on paper] is the really curious part of the manufacture [of tartan woodwork.]    Ibid. 166/3 He ‘clicks’ his pen to the first white line‥Over sheet after sheet he clicks away.

4.4 Printers' slang. (See quot. and clicking vbl. n. d.)

   1860 Ruse & Straker Printing 121 A work is said to be ‘clicked’ when each man works on his lines, and keeps an account thereof.

Draft partial entry June 2001

▸ Computing. a.a trans. To press (one of the buttons on a mouse) and release instantaneously or hold down while performing another action; to activate (a program function) or select (a particular item) in this way, having first positioned the cursor on the appropriate part of the computer screen.

   1982 Byte (Nexis) Apr. 242 They would be selected by pointing to them with the mouse and clicking one of the buttons.    1991 Macintosh User's Guide for Macintosh PowerBook Computers ii. 11 When you click an icon, it becomes highlighted (the icon is darkened). A highlighted icon is said to be selected. A selected icon is the object of whatever action you choose next.    2000 PC World Nov. 250/3 Click an entry and drag it to the Insert menu‥When the Insert menu drops down, drag the mouse pointer to where you want the command, then release the mouse button.

b.b intr. To press (and release) one of the buttons on a mouse; to activate a program function or select a particular item in this way, having first positioned the mouse pointer on the appropriate part of the computer screen. Freq. with on.

   1984 PC Mag. (Nexis) 17 Apr. 214 To move a window intact with a mouse, you would first click on the top left of a window and then click at the desired new location of the left-hand corner.    1989 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. 7 vi. 29/2 You insert the program disk and click on the Install icon.    1991 UnixWorld Oct. 102/1 You choose the text tool and click to invoke the text dialog box.    1997 J. Seabrook Deeper v. 163 The trick was to hit a site, browse it, see a link, click on it, and get transferred to another site.

Yes, who indeed is the canary and who the miner anymore?

My response.

If I had not pity responses I'd have no responses at all.

I have been left off of both of your lists for #Modigiwri. Did I fail to pay my membership fee?

A tweet that reflects a little differently

Is this coming or am I just not seeing where it is?

Does this mean that we are developing and supplanting the 'signature summer institute'. Might as well considering that some, like ours is reduced to being a one-week summer course. I hate that this happened without my input and leadership.

No idea. Seems like a long-term survival guide that relies on Gates money instead of federal/state money. If so that seems a bit fear driven, top downist.

Seems like we want to serve everybody even while we are encouraging underserved to participate.

Supports? How? A network? What kind? Where is it? Canany NWP local site participate and how would that look. Use cases? New program models? Seems like they are applying program models

Purpose. OK, but what does this mean? Expand? Leadership? Literacy learning?

What is "design and dissemination"? Sounds pretty buzzwordy.

OK, that is one way. Perhaps we can facilitate other ways in. How have people actually used this? Has this been created because the money was there to create it or was it created because of a felt AND expressed need, expresses by the users?

Navigating, but to what purpose?

Look into categories. Implies that you have a category or question in your head already. How do I fit my block into the right hole?

It is not entirely obvious to me how I do this.

Reminds me of the London cabbies' internal map of the city called "The Knowledge". Now all we need are some maps for how to use this. As the buzzologists say--to actualize this.

A poem for annotators everywhere.

This is a legitimate "deficit narrative". Legitimate because it is fact-based but more importantly it is meant to spur action toward a "surplus narrative" where we can all have enough and more learning.

I am inviting a few students from writing classes to enter into this discussion. They are insanely busy this time of year, but I will ask. Maybe others could be invited?

What do these tensions mean? Opposites? Maybe what Robert Fritz talks about in his book, The Path of Least Resistance

AS I remarked in Storybird, "X" marks the start, not the spot.

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We cross these thresholds all the time. Mostly we do not acknowledge them as boundaries at all. Mostly we do not note how they 'feel' and what the feeling means. Unaware, we fiddle while Rome burns.

Not unlike a poetic form like a sonnet. We work within the constraints of the form and find, to our joy, they are no constraints at all. They are liberating.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/treasure_island/song01_full_vocal.mp4

This is what I call a feldgang. Here is a previous blog post helping to explain the concept.

Threats, existential or otherwise, spring from everywhere. We need to know them well wherever they arise and however they threaten. NO BLIND SPOTS.

No idea what this means.

Jerusalem ["And did those feet in ancient time"] BY WILLIAM BLAKE And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen!

And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, In Englands green & pleasant Land.

Source: Preface to Milton a Poem. (1810)

Great example.

tenure track = business class flying: same kind of justification to entitlement.

Worthy question. perhaps one answer might be 'risk', the energy needed to take risk is considerable.

Here is a Vialogue version of this conversation. Join for free then join in the free for all: https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/46987/

I cannot teach to or even toward the idea of satisfaction. It makes no sense to me. We make an assumption in this: teaching evokes learning. We teach;therefore, they learn. I apply this to all teaching, even what is generally acknowledged as good teaching. The assumption does not hold.

This is such an ugly word. Who has the power to interrogate? Ugly.

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In the end, amid protestations of empathy and care and love, bearing witness in utter silence is all I can do. The things she carries are what she carries. I cannot carry them. I carry my own things. I am sorry and silent.

The things they carried.

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I think of all the border, margins and boundaries that have doors and thresholds and guardians on them.

If God is the witness, both writer and reader, then God, if good, must be empathic toward his creations. Hard to imagine what kind of empathy allows such horror.

Another form of distancing for survival? What makes the mind adaptable like this? How did the world fashion us to be like this? Or at least some of us to be like this?

Writing as a shield, a way to get between the raw core wound and the rest of the world. The raw wound has a mouth and will tell its story.

Am I supposed to feel a certain way? Feels manipulative and I haven't even looked at it yet.

Gotta admit that most of these de-contextualized tweets are fascinating abstractions, but hard for me to 'get' out of their original homes.

Damn this is a passel of assumptions, perhaps a tangle of them.

A very wryly intelligent group of folks in the comments at this link. I am reminded of the origins of the word genius--the spirit of a place

OED:

"1.1 With reference to classical pagan belief: The tutelary god or attendant spirit allotted to every person at his birth, to govern his fortunes and determine his character, and finally to conduct him out of the world; also, the tutelary and controlling spirit similarly connected with a place, an institution, etc. (Now only in sing.)    In the first two quots. Genius is the proper name of an allegorical person who in the Rom. de la Rose represents the native moral instincts of mankind as setting bounds to the range of sexual passion."

For example--blogging is cooperative sharing with long-term value.

I had never made this distinction before.

1. Get new ideas from your networks.
2. Filter ideas through conversations in cop's.
3. Make new stuff together or separately in trusted affinity spaces.
4. Share creations with 'teams' or cop's or networks.