Monthly Archives: November 2022

NOVEMBER 5, SATURDAY

UNDERSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHS A number of years ago I collected a number of photographs I had taken of people in India into a book called Eye to Eye. You are looking at an Indian person and he or she is looking

NOVEMBER 5, SATURDAY

UNDERSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHS A number of years ago I collected a number of photographs I had taken of people in India into a book called Eye to Eye. You are looking at an Indian person and he or she is looking

NOVEMBER 4, FRIDAY

THE EXPERIENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY I have experiential learning on my mind and am having trouble distinguishing between academic learning which I was involved in most of my life as a student or a teacher within the conventions of one academy

NOVEMBER 4, FRIDAY

THE EXPERIENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY I have experiential learning on my mind and am having trouble distinguishing between academic learning which I was involved in most of my life as a student or a teacher within the conventions of one academy

NOVEMBER 3, THURSDAY

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING This week was the yearly Retired Staff Luncheon at the Fellowship Hall of the Warren Wilson Church honoring everyone who has worked at Warren Wilson College who could come. There were are about thirty people there. For the

NOVEMBER 3, THURSDAY

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING This week was the yearly Retired Staff Luncheon at the Fellowship Hall of the Warren Wilson Church honoring everyone who has worked at Warren Wilson College who could come. There were are about thirty people there. For the

NOVEMBER 2, WEDNESDAY

BEING PRACTICAL Unfortunately travel is not just floating along, gravity free, unconstrained in a space ship as I suggested a couple of days ago. There is a practical side to travel which is more than just finding the money to

NOVEMBER 2, WEDNESDAY

BEING PRACTICAL Unfortunately travel is not just floating along, gravity free, unconstrained in a space ship as I suggested a couple of days ago. There is a practical side to travel which is more than just finding the money to

NOVEMBER 1, TUESDAY

VISIONS OF THE FUTURE To pull me along into the future I am going to forget the present and relive the past through photographs, which will very soon be the future and which can enliven me right now by letting

NOVEMBER 1, TUESDAY

VISIONS OF THE FUTURE To pull me along into the future I am going to forget the present and relive the past through photographs, which will very soon be the future and which can enliven me right now by letting

OCTOBER 31, MONDAY

LIVING IN THE FUTURE I am puzzled by how much of my life I‘ve lived in the future. Something in my human DNA makes me feel more alive when I live in the future, because, of course, you can‘t live

OCTOBER 31, MONDAY

LIVING IN THE FUTURE I am puzzled by how much of my life I‘ve lived in the future. Something in my human DNA makes me feel more alive when I live in the future, because, of course, you can‘t live

OCTOBER 30, SUNDAY

TRAPPED BY HOME But even as I was writing the last post about the irreconcilable differences between traditional American values and progressive liberal American values I realized that I have another problem. And it starts with my depression a few

OCTOBER 30, SUNDAY

TRAPPED BY HOME But even as I was writing the last post about the irreconcilable differences between traditional American values and progressive liberal American values I realized that I have another problem. And it starts with my depression a few

OCTOBER 29, SATURDAY

PERSUADING EACH OTHER I’ve been thinking about the differences in identity that that divide Americans and are the root of polarization. For MAGA Americans who feel that their traditional American identity is being threatened it is their white majority and

OCTOBER 29, SATURDAY

PERSUADING EACH OTHER I’ve been thinking about the differences in identity that that divide Americans and are the root of polarization. For MAGA Americans who feel that their traditional American identity is being threatened it is their white majority and

OCTOBER 28, FRIDAY

POLARIZATION AGAIN The election is coming in a little over a week. And I wondered this week whether one of the things that caused my malaise and inability to fit into American culture again was the tremendous polarization in American

OCTOBER 28, FRIDAY

POLARIZATION AGAIN The election is coming in a little over a week. And I wondered this week whether one of the things that caused my malaise and inability to fit into American culture again was the tremendous polarization in American

OCTOBER 27, THURSDAY

CULTURE SHOCK MALAISE A few days ago I stopped writing posts, I stopped doing most everything, and since that time I have been wondering why. And now I am going to try in a few posts, written mainly to myself,

OCTOBER 27, THURSDAY

CULTURE SHOCK MALAISE A few days ago I stopped writing posts, I stopped doing most everything, and since that time I have been wondering why. And now I am going to try in a few posts, written mainly to myself,