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Cities of diversity for people, but the capitalist rationale sticks deep in week 9

Kent Hakull wrote 3 weeks ago: This week (week 9) we discussed urban social diversity and its challenge to planning, and we looked … more →

Tags: Urban Planning, Automobile, capitalism, Cities, Diversity, humanism, Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, Master Planning

Now Serving Lunch; Don't Eat Here

holyvernacular wrote 1 month ago: I’m sitting in a restaurant performing an act of bravery.  I’m eating the food they serve.  Sushi.  … more →

Tags: Being There, Food, reality check, Spiritual metaphor, Cambria, chinatown, Daughter, +eat first, Eating

Warning: Graphic Information (Health Information, That Is)

holyvernacular wrote 1 month ago: Today I watched Oprah.  And the news follows Oprah.  And during the 42 minutes that I watched her sh … more →

Tags: reality check, breast cancer, Breast Self Exam, Oprah

Liquid, Fragile, Perishable or Hazardous

holyvernacular wrote 2 months ago: You approach the post office window, in a hurry to mail the too-tight jeans back to Lands’ End … more →

Tags: confession, identity, reality check, Spiritual metaphor, bodies, Fragile, God, hazardous, Holy Spirit

Dispatches from the Empty Nest

holyvernacular wrote 3 months ago: This is the place where we’re singing, halfheartedly, an endless chorus of “I’ve a … more →

Tags: confession, Empty Nest, identity, Relationships, AP US History, Baptism, brain, Career, God

An Apt Typo1 comment

holyvernacular wrote 4 months ago: My husband sent me flowers for our recent anniversary.  They were gorgeous, a combination of my favo … more →

Tags: Relationships, confession, Traditions, Marriage, Flowers, anniversary

New Poem! Needs Title

lauraelisepoetry wrote 5 months ago: Any title suggestions?  I’m performing this tonight for the first time down in Tucson tonight … more →

Tags: Billy Mays, Death and Loss, MICHAEL JACKSON, mundane observations, Pet Peeves, Poetry, slam, tribute

courageous living in the heartworld/rugged on the inside

franciszka voeltz wrote 5 months ago: 1. thick black soles walkie talkie clipped to belt vertical stripe down pants weighted walk across f … more →

Tags: Poetry, Alaska, pdx international, Harry Belafonte, Boots, Workforce, shame, Courage, descent

That Wild Thing Again4 comments

1sojournal wrote 6 months ago:   A while back, I wrote several articles about the Wild Things that inhabit the human psyche. Those … more →

Tags: That Wild Thing Again, socialization process, Wild Thing, Art in high school, blocked creative energies, Rebellion, Drafting, Architecture, conforming to Society's expectations

2nd Digital Cultures Workshop: Social Media Publics. Part I

britbohlinger wrote 6 months ago: On 4th June I attended the 2nd Digital Cultures Workshop: Social Media Publics #digcult09 at Univers … more →

Tags: Methodologies, ethics, Conferences, Triangulation, facebook, Ethnography

Expectations

holyvernacular wrote 6 months ago: How we feel about what we accomplish or what happens to us in life depends on what we expect. I get … more →

Tags: reality check, gratitude, Obscurity, america, Wonder, Susan Boyle, Weight loss, expectations, Britain's Got Talent

dichotomies4 comments

micgui wrote 7 months ago: Left Right Stop Go This That Above Below Music Noise Safe Sorry Hero Villain Sympathy Apathy Right W … more →

Tags: Emotion, Poems, Poetry

Knowledge: mere opinion, fixed or subject to change?1 comment

newscrucible wrote 8 months ago: Weighing that which is generally regarded as knowledge against the scales of opinion and knowledge t … more →

Tags: Conceptual framework for social action, Epistemology, Journalism, knowledge, Mortimer Adler, Science and Religion, Ten Philosophical Mistakes

The Shannon Factor

holyvernacular wrote 8 months ago: I have this friend named Shannon.  And actually I haven’t seen her in years.  Which proves the … more →

Tags: reality check, Being There, God, Wisdom, American, retreat, Friends, Friendship, Choice

My Sister

lauraelisepoetry wrote 8 months ago: My Sister My sister was famous for dying unborn. With only blood to bury no memorial amassed, no can … more →

Tags: Poetry, Family, Love and Sex, Death and Loss

Road Trip Musings

holyvernacular wrote 8 months ago: I’m on a long-awaited road trip to the Alamo with my son.  We went when he was six and we … more →

Tags: Relationships, RoadTrip, Food, Recommendations, Road Trip, MINI Cooper, iPod, beach music, Loretta Lynn

Non Sequitur of the Month: A Paean to Cracker Barrel1 comment

holyvernacular wrote 8 months ago: I love jarring juxtapositions, dichotomies and non sequiturs.  I think I’ll start a “non … more →

Tags: RoadTrip, identity, Food, Recommendations, delight, Being There, Road Trip, southern, Dichotomy

Bolter, Critical Theory and the Challenge of New Media

revolutionlullabye wrote 8 months ago: Bolter, Jay David. “Critical Theory and the Challenge of New Media.” In Eloquent Images. … more →

Tags: Pedagogy, Design, MinorDesign, NewMedia, Internet, Education, productive, EloquentImages, JayDavidBolter

infinite earth

Marcio Rocha Pereira wrote 8 months ago: Common sense has it that we are doomed for having used the earth as it was infinite. I guess the wor … more →

Tags: politiks, Ecology, eco-freaks, Infinite, Process, World


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