tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20038039288120400482024-02-19T08:19:51.901-08:00Simple ImagesSimple things that stir ideas, awe, and gratitude.edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.comBlogger477125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-66847455492647211292012-12-12T10:05:00.000-08:002012-12-15T16:57:59.530-08:00Last postThis is maybe my last post on this blog. I have to say farewell.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“agape (love), chara (joy), eirene (peace), makrothymia
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(faithfulness), praotes (gentleness), and engratea (self-control).”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apostle Paul “describes the fruits of the Spirit in the form
of a scale, a hierarchy. He lists the highest and the most exalted gift first
and ends up with the most basic and fundamental…” One could see that “one must
traverse the lower steps to reach the highest of stages.” One has to “start
from the base, with self control, and climb up the ladder all the way to love.”</span></div>
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with God. Faith will no longer be necessary, and only love, the ultimate stage
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edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-59952768753889812602012-12-07T19:09:00.000-08:002012-12-07T19:09:38.046-08:00Wine<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.41666603088379px;">"Wine to me is entwined with pleasure, joy, fun, family, and friendship. It’s not the sort of thing that requires book learning, academic training, or special classes, but rather an elemental pleasure that satisfies emotionally and physically. Yes, wine also has its aesthetic dimension, its rare and subtle beauty that becomes more apparent with experience. Plunging deeply into wine can be thoroughly rewarding. But it’s not at all required. It all depends on what you’re after. The simple contentment that comes with a glass or two at dinner is no small thing."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.41666603088379px;">...excerpts from How To Love Wine by Isaac</span>edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-56030708430820101202012-12-06T11:15:00.003-08:002012-12-06T11:15:23.932-08:00Skills"While hard skills are best put together with measured precision,soft skills are built by playing and exploring inside challenging, ever changing environments."<br />
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...excerpts from The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyleedgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-25693774311365981842012-12-02T18:15:00.000-08:002012-12-02T18:15:29.112-08:00On thinking for oneself<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"A library may be very large; but if it is in disorder, it is not so useful as one that is small but well arranged. In the same way, a man may have a great mass of knowledge, but if he has not worked it up by thinking it over for himself, it has much less value than a far smaller amount which he has thoroughly pondered. For it is only when a man looks at his knowledge from all sides, and combines the things he knows by comparing truth with truth, that he obtains a complete hold over it and gets it into his power. A man cannot turn over anything in his mind unless he knows it; he should, therefore, learn something; but it is only when he has turned it over that he can be said to know it.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Reading and learning are things that anyone can do of his own free will; but not so <i>thinking</i>. Thinking must be kindled, like a fire by a draught; it must be sustained by some interest in the matter in hand. This interest may be of purely objective kind, or merely subjective. The latter comes into play only in things that concern us personally. Objective interest is confined to heads that think by nature; to whom thinking is as natural as breathing; and they are very rare. This is why most men of learning show so little of it."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5a4bff; font-family: Georgia;">…excerpt </span><span style="color: #5a4bff; font-family: Georgia; letter-spacing: 0px;">from:<i> On Thinking For Oneself</i> by Arthur Schopenhauer</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">These are amazing: each <br />
Joining a neighbor, as though speech <br />
Were a still performance. <br />
Arranging by chance</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To meet as far this morning <br />
From the world as agreeing <br />
With it, you and I <br />
Are suddenly what the trees try</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To tell us we are: <br />
That their merely being there <br />
Means something; that soon <br />
We may touch, love, explain.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And glad not to have invented <br />
Some comeliness, we are surrounded: <br />
A silence already filled with noises, <br />
A canvas on which emerges</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A chorus of smiles, a winter morning. <br />
Place in a puzzling light, and moving, <br />
Our days put on such reticence <br />
These accents seem their own defense.</span></div>
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(photo: taken from one of the meadows that overlooks Lake Tahoe that we hiked a day after Thanksgiving. Alone and bereft of leaves, the tree stands with pride and dignity. )<br />
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edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-32672801134324158762012-11-30T11:04:00.002-08:002012-11-30T11:04:40.822-08:00Life of Pi<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yesterday Cheri and I watched the movie, Life of Pi, extreme digital and 3-D, at the newly opened movie theater. The scenes and visual effects inspire and excite imagination and creativity. The movie follows the book story including the written text. I enjoyed the book and the certainly the film.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">""It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">…from the Life of Pi-Yann Martel</span>edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-85063891052001340412012-11-30T00:07:00.003-08:002012-11-30T00:07:51.535-08:00place for love<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(I found this quotation just before I went to bed.)</span></span></div>
edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-27353044350490373922012-11-28T09:46:00.000-08:002012-11-29T10:34:54.900-08:00Silence<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Even now I am the last priest in this land. But Our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of him."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">…from Shusaku Endo's Silence (last lines)</span></span>edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-77567520655524815142012-11-26T22:12:00.001-08:002012-11-26T22:12:59.157-08:00Three philosophies of life<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The difference between philosophy and religion is the difference between speaking and listening, between man’s speaking about God and God’s speaking about man with man listening. This is the difference between reason and faith. Philosophy is man’s search for God; the Bible is the story of God’s search for man. Ecclesiastes is the only book in the bible where God is silent.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">from Peter Kreeft’s Three Philosophies of Life</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ecclesiastes: Life as Vanity</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Job: Life as Suffering</span></div>
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edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-72191613364973149492012-11-25T18:17:00.001-08:002012-11-25T18:17:43.654-08:00On writing<br />
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of work. (Graham) Greene the same. And Julien Green’s difficulties too. I view
my frailty with alarm. Or rather, I ought to be content to work a little harder
and a lot more patiently when I write. The fact that I have to revise a line
does not mean that I have come to the end of my rope. Or should not.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-5100927450161109692012-11-24T16:50:00.001-08:002012-11-24T16:56:38.239-08:00two experiences of adult life<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">“…ours are ‘ the two experiences
of adult life’ of which Pavese spoke, success and failure, to kill the whale or
wreck the ship; one should not surrender to incomprehensible matter, one must
not just sit down. We are here for this-to make mistakes and to correct
ourselves, to stand the blows and hand them out. We must never feel disarmed:
nature is immense and complex, but it is not impermeable to the intelligence;
we must circle around it, pierce and probe it, look for the opening or make it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for more Saturday Snapshots see Alyce at: <a href="http://athomewithbooks.net/">http://athomewithbooks.net/</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">(photo: a man hiked an ascending trail for about a mile, cut a tree for Christmas tree, and carried it back to his car. We were hiking when this man carrying a saw passed us going up and while we were on our way back halfway down he passed us again carrying this seven- foot tree.) </span></div>
edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-48216469888507933222012-11-23T22:02:00.000-08:002012-11-25T18:20:05.237-08:00But to whom do you give yourself?<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"But to whom do you give yourself? God reveals himself to the humble in small things. -'He has filled the hungry with good things' (Luke 1:53)-but the proud, who only attach importance to outward appearances, cannot see him even in big ones."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...from The Sacrament of the Present Moment by Jean-Pierre De Caussade</span>edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-63784858547811310812012-11-22T21:49:00.000-08:002012-11-22T21:49:18.316-08:00Thanksgiving Day<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A day of gratitude.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lord </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for all your blessings. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Give us the grace to share our blessings with others.</span>edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-65329593547131346372012-11-21T12:31:00.001-08:002012-11-21T12:31:31.423-08:00Words without photos<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">I wandered lonely as a cloud</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">That floats on high o'er vales and hills,</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">When all at once I saw a crowd,</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">A host, of golden daffodils;</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">Beside the lake, beneath the trees,</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">Continuous as the stars that shine</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">And twinkle on the milky way,</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">They stretched in never-ending line</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">Along the margin of a bay:</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">Ten thousand saw I at a glance,</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">The waves beside them danced; but they</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">A poet could not but be gay,</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">In such a jocund company:</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">I gazed---and gazed---but little thought</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">What wealth the show to me had brought:</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">For oft, when on my couch I lie</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">In vacant or in pensive mood,</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">They flash upon that inward eye</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">Which is the bliss of solitude;</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">And then my heart with pleasure fills,</span><br style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">And dances with the daffodils.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div>
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edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-15040899107542947172012-11-19T12:45:00.000-08:002012-11-19T12:45:05.874-08:00What is faith?<br />
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“<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The ancient monks,
seeking quiet for contemplation, found the desert’s emptiness perversely
hectic, wild with inner demons, and were tempted to despair; the tidy faith
they had brought with them failed before such overwhelming bafflement. But that
failure eventually revealed itself to be the point. The faith that the desert
teaches is a faith that risks and trusts, a faith that survives in the
wilderness of the world not through the fortress of routine and unassailable
vows but through the simple reliance on the mercy of God. And God in His mercy
has made us human beings.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-52258349701033191812012-11-18T18:50:00.000-08:002012-11-18T18:50:26.954-08:00Words without photos: a prayer<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: teal; font-family: Georgia;">God grant me the serenity<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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courage to change the things I can;<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: teal; font-family: Georgia;">Living one day at a time;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Enjoying one moment at a time;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Taking, as He did, this sinful world<br />
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Trusting that He will make all things right<br />
if I surrender to His Will;<br />
That I may be reasonably happy in this life<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
and supremely happy with Him<br />
Forever in the next.<br />
Amen.</span><span style="color: teal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-37420016478827704782012-11-17T10:34:00.002-08:002012-11-17T10:34:26.418-08:00Inverted bridge<br />
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I rummaged from a few photos I have in my old laptop and found a photo of an old inverted railroad track located in Lockport, near Buffalo,N.Y.(photo: by Cheri)<br />
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It's raining up here in Lake Tahoe.Snow will come later this afternoon. Should I take pictures of raindrops? During or after the rain? Is snow better than rain? Silly questions.<br />
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<br />edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-38350836051866295942012-11-16T18:41:00.003-08:002012-11-16T18:41:58.347-08:00Cuddle<br />
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A time to cuddle.<br />
(photo:Incline Village at Lake Tahoe this morning.)edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-49595184417974807102012-11-15T09:18:00.002-08:002012-11-15T09:18:55.248-08:00To the mountains<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...heading up to the mountains for Thanksgiving week; a forecast of snow.<br />
( photo: Thanksgiving, 2010)edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-8962803060451345232012-11-14T14:56:00.000-08:002012-11-14T14:56:34.852-08:00Where's is the exit?<br />
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"What could I tell you? I could not tell you any other way….I'll catch up with you at the next exit…"<br />
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(a snippet from Added Poignancy, a poem by John Ashbery)edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-91959923559772816622012-11-13T22:45:00.001-08:002012-11-13T22:46:51.588-08:00Fill the boats with learning<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Learn to Program: The Fundamentals-University of Toronto</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Crash Course on Creativity-Stanford University</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The poetry class opens my eyes to the beauty and richness of language. Our last week’s class is on Conceptualism and Unoriginality. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Creativity class teaches me awareness and how to think with a new eye. Our text is the book:InGenius by Tina Seelig. </span></span><br />
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(photo: Napa River along the Riverfront and Veterans Park, downtown Napa. Third Street bridge behind))edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244431245341788001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003803928812040048.post-67916542846784762192012-11-11T20:58:00.001-08:002012-11-11T20:58:39.762-08:00Sabbath Day<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">(one of the Buddhist Nine Prayers)</span></div>
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