Author Archives: billybaba
NOVEMBER 10, THURSDAY
BIG WORDS This morning I went to the dermatologist, my first visit ever to a dermatologist. I went at the urging of my family to get tested for skin cancer and because my family doctor agreed that the dermatologist might
NOVEMBER 10, THURSDAY
BIG WORDS This morning I went to the dermatologist, my first visit ever to a dermatologist. I went at the urging of my family to get tested for skin cancer and because my family doctor agreed that the dermatologist might
NOVEMBER 9, WEDNESDAY
ANTICIPATION: FINLAND It is a gloomy, blustery, rainy day when I am writing this. The last of the brilliant autumn leaves have turned brown and I don‘t feel like going outside. I should feel closed in and depressed. But yesterday
NOVEMBER 9, WEDNESDAY
ANTICIPATION: FINLAND It is a gloomy, blustery, rainy day when I am writing this. The last of the brilliant autumn leaves have turned brown and I don‘t feel like going outside. I should feel closed in and depressed. But yesterday
NOVEMBER 8, TUESDAY
ON LINE ALICE IN WONDERLAND This week Susie, Todd and I have spent a great deal of time figuring out the three month trip we are making to India and and Europe in January, February and March. We already have
NOVEMBER 8, TUESDAY
ON LINE ALICE IN WONDERLAND This week Susie, Todd and I have spent a great deal of time figuring out the three month trip we are making to India and and Europe in January, February and March. We already have
NOVEMBER 7, MONDAY
DOWNSIZING It is very odd. During the first part of our lives many of us marry, have children, buy a house and then fill the house with things for ourselves and our children. It takes a great deal of work,
NOVEMBER 7, MONDAY
DOWNSIZING It is very odd. During the first part of our lives many of us marry, have children, buy a house and then fill the house with things for ourselves and our children. It takes a great deal of work,
NOVEMBER 6, SUNDAY
CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM Something that has always unsettled me is that I live in a competitive capitalist culture with personal liberal socialist values. I feel like a hypocrite, I am a hypocrite, preaching one thing and living another, so this
NOVEMBER 6, SUNDAY
CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM Something that has always unsettled me is that I live in a competitive capitalist culture with personal liberal socialist values. I feel like a hypocrite, I am a hypocrite, preaching one thing and living another, so this
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
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 