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With warning as lightning heralds thunder love rumbles my heart. Textwork is a practice, not a product. It is praxis, part and parcel of the critique of the everyday creative life act. It invites something out of nothing. A source. TextwUrk is not a metaphor, not metaphorical. It is creative work. A passion. It exists precisely in the obdurate interstice between body and voice. It exists in the arrow - the connection. It is memory. It is invisible to illuminate. It is not a set of procedures or perceptions. It is the crisis noise in the system. It is not the encapsulation or object of the crisis noise or the system. It is continuous; it is parasitic; it is thetic. It seeks obstacle. It is of no interest except as cultural residue: it is of great interest to the actor's studies. It is nothing more than the continuous reification, territorialization and rendering of the actor's work/etude - as if the etude were always already cleansed, available for the taking - as if the etude w...

"... 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 ...

ailsa haxell can i jus txt View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. - See: Terms Teens :: note :: ... texting is now a fact of high school life ... there was a moment during a recent rehearsal when as supervisor while talking to four student on stage regarding the scene all four of them went to their phones ... needless to say I stopped in resignation ... some told me to ban cell phones but in the end the students themselves found the commitment required ...

reading of the mythtime "... the wild time ... mythtime surrounds historical time the way the forest and the ocean and the sky surround a village ... the mythtime is self-sustaining, alive and independent of human control ... myth is a richly complex piece of knowledge, like a theorem or a language or a genome: an inheritance too precious to be left, like a trademark or a patented procedure, in the realm of the privately owned ... the mythtime covers for a timeless moment, a familiar human space ..." ( Nine Visits to the Mythworld: Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas ) - See: Terms Artists First Nation :: note :: ... Robert Bringhurst ... Animal and the Human ... we were told ...

"The other departure from contemporary English is my use of 'irreal' and 'irreality', which are not English words at all. They are my rendering of the French adjective and noun 'irréel' usually translated as 'unreal' and 'unreality'. but these would be misleading here. Sartre's use of 'irréel' here seems to follow one sense of Husserl's 'irreal' . Since Husserl's term is usually rendered into English as 'irreal', my rendering of Sartre's term preserves the connection. Further, Sartre's 'irréel' does not denote, as 'unreal' seems to, the class of objects that could exist but do not. Rather, an irreal object in this work is an object as imagined by consciousness. This object may be real: the irreal Pierre may be the real Pierre as imaged. Conversely, unreal objects that are never imaged will never be irreal. Finally, Sartre employs the verb 'to irrealize', even opening the wo...

"Freedom and dignity will continue to dissolve into an unprecedented enslavement of man to his tools. As an alternative to technocratic disaster, I propose the vision of a convivial society. A convivial society would be the result of social arrangements that guarantee for each member the most ample and free access to the tools of the community and limit this freedom only in favor of another member‚s equal freedom." ( Tools for Conviviality - Ivan Illich ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... reading regarding the use of our tools ... conviviality is a concrete map for a new social order ...

Turtle on display at the airport created by a Georges Vanier Grade 2 student. Studies of lace patterns in nature. - See: Terms :: note :: ... go inside for protection ... bury seeds in the sand ... flow in the water ... ground yourself with a power stance ... the red lips ...

Full Moon ... Winter Solstice ... Time Lines ... "We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." ( T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... coyoto howls ... there on the floor ... there's a hole ... there's a hole ... there's a whole in my mukluk which the world will see ... there's a toe ... there's a toe ... there's a toe in the hole in my mukluk which the world will see ... there's a rabbit on the toe in the hole in my mukluk which the world will see ... there's feathers on the rabbit on the toe in the hole in my mukluk which gaia does see ... there's a pouch ... there's a pouch ... there's a pouch in the hole in my mukluk in the bottom of the .... " just gimme that pouch" - & rabbit did ... it was cold ... it was cold ... it was so cold for coyoto ... clutching the pouch ... leaving...

"According to traditional knowledge, the Memekwesiw offer guidance on natural medicines and how to live life in harmony with Nature. They are said to be about the same height as two-year-old children, but are easily distinguishable from them because they have no noses. Memekwesiw in the La Ronge region are said to live in caves carved out of the rock near the lake's shoreline." ( Virtual Saskatchewan ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... during a medical crisis over a decade ago it was such a memekwesiw that healed me ... listening to Ideas tonight brought it all back ...

if destiny is a choice than what we choose is destiny if choice involves knowing the shadow than shadow involves choice if choice is limited to right and wrong than possibilities are limited choices if possibility is a response to choices than what is chosen demands responsibility if responsibility to all we have imagined and created is a choice than choose destiny - See: Term :: note :: ... a young man stood before me passionately living his destiny ... he told me it was his choice ... silently I felt life is all possibilities therefore if theater is our wish, than theater we get & I witnessed great theater ...

"People are not things, but flows" ( MANUEL DE LANDA via rod corp ) ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... find i often focus on the structure of things ... unable to grasp water but able to create a structure to hold water ... breathe the flow ... don't hold the breath ... swim in the water and catch the rhythm of the breath ... relationship as flow ...

:: note :: ... being treacherous in safe places ... this is new ... linking to myself ... creating emotional fire to burn off logic stubble ... a type of landscape/mindscape clearing ... seems to be not very advantageous & must deal with a lot of tearing smoke ... watch the wind & be prepared for damage control ... - See: Terms

Fake Science a smaller music seller. - See: Terms :: note :: ...iTunes needs a reality check away from the mainstream ... more choice ... less restrictions ...

MapmyName via Conversations with Dina - See: terms :: note :: ...risk digital grace ... gift each other connection for no particular reason than the joy of connection ... it is a risk to reveal info ...

"So what is the process for exercising and stretching the imagination so that that capacity returns?" ( Dave Pollard | How to Save the World | The Process of Imagining ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... an incredibly practical guide ...

"This non-essentialist approach to identity leaves greater scope for analysing individual action with regard to the individual's own culture. The ways in which individuals perceive their culture and give meaning to it are diverse and variable. People are capable of criticizing their cultural habitus and opening themselves up to innovation and supplementation with new cultural elements. This often leads to diverse forms of connections. What is needed for such reflection and innovation, however, is a feeling of security. The general precondition for reflection, therefore, is a safe space." "For people to open themselves up to new ideas and connections, as Taylor points out (5), they need to feel recognized for who they are: social recognition is of paramount importance for human development. This is the only base that would allow people to feel secure enough to question some aspects of their cultural background. The change should come from conviction and a sense of bel...

"What to say to a man who tells you he prefers to obey God than to obey men, and who is consequently sure of entering the gates of Heaven by slitting your throat?" - Voltaire - See: Terms :: note :: ... been reading Ian Burma. Murder in Amsterdam... have entered a minefield ... Pascal Bruckner , Necla Kelek and Paul Cliteur & more respond ... am sifting through the thinking which results in being overwhelmed into paralysis ...

- See: Terms :: note :: ... bless all this year ... year started off with a presentation of Grass Jelly ...

"I know someone who speaks, in his pathetic, ignorant, yet smug and condescending fashion, as if serious were the highest of accolades rather than the most banal of modifiers. As if to call academic work serious were to qualify it in some discernible fashion. He is a stupid man, a parasite only capable of feeding off the conversation with others without offering anything himself. I think of him as a soul wasted because of the hideous personality entrapping it. He venerates the emptiness of seriousness, I'm sure, because of his correct intuition that he lacks understanding, insight, and analytic acuity." ( I cite | I want to be taken seriously ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... will simply quote ... attending the past conference this observation was voiced silently ... great to express however obliquely ...

"Keynote Speaker: Erin Walsh (Sid Buckwold Theatre) All the way from San Francisco, Erin Walsh, training consultant, comes to us with a vast knowledge on topics such as media's impact on children, families and communities, violence against women in the media and video game violence. Erin is a dynamic speaker who has presented to youth groups as well as adults and professionals. She has worked at the National Institute on Media and the Family for the past five years and is a principal architect of the MediaWise movement. " ( Strong Teachers, Strong Families, Strong Communities | STA Convention [pdf link] ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... past days listened to Erin Walsh & Larry McCallum ... mediawise & Traditional First Nations Spirituality ... powerpoint presentations ... stories ... discussion ...