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Reverent Agnostic, True Mystic, and a "Very Funny Lady."school
Memory and what I want to remember (supermemo)
I just finished reading a fascinating article about memory at Wired magazine by Gary Wolf. Are you interested in memory? Whenever I see ads for memory systems, I’m never interested. It looks incredibly boring and the processes themselves usually involve detailed information that I would need to learn and remember. On the other hand, I [...]
Much Love: This week shows why I love The Bachelor
Ok, when I started watching The Bachelor at the beginning of the season, I’m like, why am I watching this? And every time I watch, I feel like a sick, sick puppy who is only ingraining bad, bad ideas from this culture more firmly in my head. But then comes this one redeeming week. So, [...]
Are these more Realistic Affirmations?
I just read a really interesting book called Awaken Your Strongest Self by Neil Fiore. It’s a little strange on first glance but I bought it based on the amazingness of his last book The Now Habit which is a highly lauded book about how to overcome procrastination. I read it before my last semester [...]
Smart Fins
Wow, this is blowing my academic mind: High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids don’t start school until [...]
Art Spot
I would love to have a space where people can gather and make art. I’d have supplies but mostly I’d just have a big space with a beautiful view. Can you picture it? There would be wooden tables, a couple big sinks, one wall would be mostly windows looking out over the ocean or a [...]
Ester
Hi, You hab nice bacation? Oh .. you go to nother city? That’s good. How long? two weeks? That’s good. I heard you’re looking for a new place? Why? You found something? Oh let me tell you. The old owner, she die. Now her children, one in Austin, one in Santa Monica, they sell house. [...]
You can’t say you can’t play (Part one)
An NPR snippet, a conversation, and what it reminded me of. A teacher doesn’t want any of her students to be left out anymore. She proposes a new rule: You can’t say ‘You can’t play.’ Imagine how this rule would have changed the dynamics of the elementary school you grew up in. But the first [...]
Is your bucket half full or half empty? or How I used a bookstore and some onion rings to feel better
Written December 22, 2005 There is an interesting study in the book How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton. It talks about POW’s becoming hopeless just because they lose a sense of camaraderie. So, to prevent curling up in a corner and dying (POW [...]
Birth Days
Not your first day on earth, but your first day out of your mother’s body on earth. That is your birthday. Because memories are state dependent, I have been remembering some of my most depressing birthdays today. The one I remember the most today is my 18th birthday. My mom and I had moved into [...]
"I am not like these people; I am not suited to this world."
I’m just passing on links today, but, oh my gosh! How right on is this paragraph. I haven’t even gotten to the end of this and I had to stop and pass it along to you, from someone who has just started to feel in the last few years like she is suited to this [...]
