Category: education

• October 11, 2011

  DIY Tuesday: The serendipitous thank you

  An Inspirational Quote to Whet the Whistle “The basic philosophical problems are presented to us by living, not by books or by the educational system. [Three cheers!–AT] The notion that only those who have studied philosophy at a university can philosophize is on par with the notion that only those who have made an academic…
• October 10, 2011

  DIY Monday: Notes of praise

  DIY Week This week I’ll be writing about a number of DIY exercises. Today my subject is the note of praise. A Brief Caveat In the past, I’ve been skeptical of DIY culture. I still am–not because DIY can’t put you on the path to self-understanding but because it’s insufficient for effecting genuine self-transformation. Understood…
• October 7, 2011

  Friday meditation: Unnaming our nonsense

  Unnaming All of Them After she, formerly Eve, unnames all the wild and domesticated animals and all the pets so that wild and domesticated and petted are all one with each other as well as with her, she relates, “My words must be as slow, as new, as single, as tentative as the steps I…
• October 5, 2011

  Hustle hustle hustle (Part 3): Terre Haute is bust

  Terre Haute is Bust (December 30, 2006) Relationships, like tires, wear down, little by little, before they wear out. (Oh, but how we tire of tires. They too get old.) For hundreds, no thousands of miles, no for months on end, there had been a whirring coming from somewhere around the left front wheel. That…
• October 4, 2011

  Hustle hustle hustle (Part 2): 2 chefs and a definition

  2 Chefs I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Soho. It’s dark, abnormally dark for a coffee shop, and I’m re-reading my copy of Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. On my right, two men, dressed in suits, are talking hurriedly. I take them to be investment bankers working on Wall Street, but I come to find,…