August 2010
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Revalorizing the Trades →
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Having taught in art schools for most of my four decades in the classroom, I am used to having students who work with their hands—ceramicists, weavers, woodworkers, metal smiths, jazz drummers. There is a calm, centered, Zen-like engagement with the physical world in their lives. In contrast, I see glib, cynical, neurotic elite-school graduates roiling everywhere in...
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Free
We live free Air is free, clouds are free Valleys and hills are free Rain and mud are free The outside of cars The entrances of cinemas And the shop windows are free Bread and cheese cost money, but Stale water is free Freedom can cost your head But prison is free We live free.
Orhan Veli Kanık
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“True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.”
– Gautama Buddha
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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love; My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this...
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“We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the...”
– Will Rogers
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For Instance
A boy came up the street and there was a girl. “Hello,” they said in passing, then didn’t pass. They began to imagine. They imagined all night and woke imagining what the other imagined. Later they woke with no need to imagine. They were together. They kept waking together. Once they woke a daughter who got up and went looking for something without looking back. But they had...
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“The purpose of a fishtrap is to catch fish. When the fish are caught, the trap...”
– Zhuangzi
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Friend
Come to my place one night, without notice Don’t make the stairs creak I am so tired, don’t ask Only you can understand me Let’s sit down and talk all night Nobody to hear us Let’s have our blue sky And let’s fly, my wings touching yours. I feel alienated from all people There is only you I am so tired, don’t ask You know.
Cahit Külebi
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“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I...”
– Bertrand Russell - Education and the Social Order
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There is no Tomorrow
They repeatedly say, “Tomorrow, tomorrow.” I ask them, “When does it come?” And they reply, “When it dawns, tomorrow comes.” I search for the new day myself. When I awake and look around I find no tomorrow. Rather I find the today that has already come. My folks! There is no tomorrow.
Yun Dong-ju
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“What difference does it make after all? Anonymity in the world of men is better...”
– Jack Kerouac - On the Road
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Feelings
There must be a wound! No one can be this hurt and not bleed. How could she injure me so? No marks No bruises Worse! People say ‘My, you’re looking well’ …..God help me! She’s mummified me - ALIVE!
Spike Milligan
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