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There are no limits to the act of the imagination. Herbert was the catalyst of creativity. He demanded we play & play is serious & play is joyful & play is painful & play is life ... & death. He has flown from this world of practicality. The place he taught the practice of making the impossible possible. I hold him here deep in memory. I loved & fought him as if he were my father. The last time I talked to him was too many years ago. He was enthusiastically discussing his upcoming role in a stage production of My Dinner with Andre . I wished to tell him he respected me more than I deserved. We weren't in his atelier but in a garden of paradise and I wanted this revolutionary veteran to know without his support I wouldn't be where I was or where I became. I didn't but we did embrace & in his grasp I would have liked to have been able to comfort his restlessness - the disquiet that lurked around his expressive power. Thinking back a crow was per...

"... Openness is not the enemy. Openness is what protects these kids. Openness is what draws people out into the open, like those Flickr photo collectors (you can be sure they are known to police, or at least, that they should be). And openness is what allows you - and others - to talk to your kids, to give them the tools to protect them from danger, to given them the knowledge and the empowerment to stand up to those people whether they are total strangers or close family..." ( Stephen Downes | comment 7 ) - See: terms :: note :: ... an issue that needs to be opened within our personal, private, public, institutional environments ... the struggle/choice to be open - when & how ... responsibility (the ability to respond) is threefold: me, my partners & my environment ... a personal attack requires healing and leaves scars ... living with scars ... be open, be sensible, be sensitive (full of senses) ... it is risk ...

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A terrorist phelpsian fist jab twitt to all the staycation maverick edupunks, those burrowing frugalista joes TBTF: Change. Yes we Can. - See: Terms