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Life of a WriterSpeaker: FORGET POSITIVE THINKING - ISOLATION IS THE DREAMKILLER, NOT YOUR ATTITUDE
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Seen on @melmcbride 's Twitter stream.
Laura Munson, "Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear (Modern Love)," The New York Times (July 31, 2009)
From the article: "'I don't love you anymore. I'm not sure I ever did.' His words came at me like a speeding fist, like a sucker punch, yet somehow in that moment I was able to duck. And once I recovered and composed myself, I managed to say, 'I don't buy it.' Because I didn't.'... He'd lost pride in himself. Maybe that's what happens when our egos take a hit in midlife and we realize we're not as young and golden anymore." Archived: http://sqrl.it/?lgavr
Transition Towns Wiki -- on sustainable, post-carbon communities
Found via Theolog (the Christain Century weblog).
Web 2.0 Teaching Tools: Twitter Tweets for Higher Education
Thoughts on using Twitter in a classroom setting.
JFK, 1963, on peace
JFK's commencement address at American University in 1963, after the
Cuban missile crisis. In it he remarks on Soviet propaganda claims that
the U.S. is planning a "preventative war" -- which he describes as
outlandish -- and declares, "The United Stat
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JFK's commencement address at American University in 1963, after the
Cuban missile crisis. In it he remarks on Soviet propaganda claims that
the U.S. is planning a "preventative war" -- which he describes as
outlandish -- and declares, "The United States, as the world knows,
will never start a war." - nathanrein on 2007-05-12
Luther on "the summons of death" and loneliness
One of Martin Luther's most moving and brilliant sermons, preached in Wittenberg in 1521 after the iconoclasm of the "Zwickau prophets" had torn the community apart.
This is the Fight of Our Lives (Bill Moyers, Inequality Matters Forum, June 2004)
Bill Moyers's keynote address at the Inequality Matters Forum. Very passionate.
Don't Mourn, Organize
Molly Ivins's 2004 essay. Disturbing and stirring.
Harvey Sarles, Teaching as Dialogue | HEA Newsletter 16, Spring 2005
A nicely drawn Frierean discussion of the idea of dialogue in teaching. I haven't read it yet.
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