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NIGHT COLOR MUSIC
2007-04-18 13:51:00 The Gnawa are a syncretic sect inflected by elements of Mystical Islam and North African local religious themes. In the West they have become well known for their public music, based in rugged hypnotic pentatonic vamps played on the guembri, a kind of proto-lute with a rubbery twang, and accompanied by percussion, singing and the ... More About: Music , Color , Night
OPEN EYE IN LAKEWOOD
2007-04-14 18:20:00 I had occasion to contribute some thoughts to the Observation Deck of the Lake wood (Ohio) Observer, a all-volunteer, community newspaper. I was briefly and memorably involved in early efforts to develop civic intelligence there. Lakewood remains one of those special urban places. Snug againt Cleveland proper and Lake Erie, Lakewood is still the most densely ... More About: Open , Wood
IDEAS AS ART
2007-04-11 04:33:00 James G. March, the eminent interdisciplinary scholar of organizations, was interviewed in The Harvard Review of Business in October. For me, March and Karl Wieck are, respectively, the Monk and Coltrane of organizational behavior research. Well, they’re much more than researchers. Here’s an excerpt. You’ve written about the importance of a “technology of foolishness.” Could you ... More About: Ideas , Idea
LACY WISE
2007-04-06 14:16:00 click for large version Commentary: the last quotation of the late genius of improvisation has wider applications. More About: Wise
PROCESSING TIME
2007-04-05 22:21:00 The students in the monastery were in total awe of the elder monk, not because he was strict, but because nothing ever seemed to upset or ruffle him. So they found him a bit unearthly and even frightening. One day they decided to put him to a test. A bunch of them very quietly hid ... More About: Time , Sing , Proc , Process
MY VALUES, MY HEART
2007-04-02 17:22:00 In ancient Greece, the masculine was trying to find consciousness and the hero was the great myth. It summoned great power ? even into the first world war. The more matter you had, the more power you had ? the more you were the great hero. The massacre that happened at Vimy Ridge and other ... More About: Hear , Heart , Values , Value
SLIPPIN? AND A SLIDIN?
2007-03-30 00:21:00 Love the French! Voltaire. DeBussy. Merleau-Ponty. Truffaut. Moreau. Sartre. More About: Lippi , Slip
BUSHED
2007-03-29 03:58:00 Now, some of them believe that by delaying funding for our troops, they can force me to accept restrictions on our commanders that I believe would make withdrawal and defeat more likely. That’s not going to happen. If Congress fails to pass a bill to fund our troops on the front lines, the American people ... More About: Bush
JUDITH
2007-03-26 14:17:00 Judith Buerkel, February 12, 1941-March 24, 2007 I’ve been privileged to be the not very good student of a succession of teachers. (This admitted, I remain surprised how much of the transmission gets through despite my own resistance!) Judith came into my life under a surprising fitting together of a corner of the jigsaw puzzle ... More About: Judith
REPAIR STRATEGIES
2007-03-23 09:36:00 (Baxter & Dindla; 1987, 1990) 1. changing the external environment 2. communication 3. metacommunication 4. suppress metacommunication* 5. antisocial strategies; coercion 6. prosocial strategies** 7. ceremonies 8. spontaneity 9. togetherness 10. seeking, allowing autonomy 11. seeking outside help 12. other.*** From a nifty chapter, Relational Maintenance, in Close Relationships, Noller, Feeny, et al. Psychology Press, 2006. This list has been slightly edited by yours truly. * joined two terms for ... More About: Strategies , Trat , Stra , Pair , Repair
THE LAST STEP
2007-03-22 12:48:00 Mullah Nasrudin had obtained a part time gig as the agricultural adviser to the village. There wasn’t much to do but answer the queries of gardeners and farmers. One man was struggling with his lawn and, so, one day he knocked on Nasrudin’s door. “My lawn is beautiful except for the pesky dandelions!” Nasrudin stroked his beard ... More About: Last , Step , The Last
SO ASK, ALREADY
2007-03-21 14:55:00 “I come to life and enjoy myself only when I am respectfully asked questions about my work.” –Psychologist Abraham Maslow More About: Read , Ready
THE FOREVER PROBLEM
2007-03-19 13:58:00 When is organizational problem solving in name only? Let me sketch a curious case I was apprised of recently. I’ll put it very generally and suggest this conundrum is very common. Basically there are two aspects. First, there is a problem that is always being solved. In other words, it is a perennial problem. Second, up the ... More About: Problem , Forever , Ever , Fore
UNBREAKABLE HABIT
2007-03-19 11:38:00 KW I’m interested in the way morphic fields might determine culture. For instance, repeating and idea with the intention of influencing overall human consciousness- if it’s thought about many times, will it have an effect? RS You mean the more people think about something, the more it’s likely to happen? Yes. Basically, morphic fields are fields ... More About: Break , Brea , Abit , Habit
EYE EXAMINATION
2007-03-16 14:14:00 click for large version More About: Nation , Exam , Examination , Mina
MAKE THYSELF A SPY FOR THE SERVICE OF OTHERS
2007-03-13 17:36:00 The Mahayana Ideal By constant use the idea of an ?I? attaches itself to foreign drops of seed and blood, although the thing exists not. then why should I not conceive my fellow?s body as my own self? That my body is foreign to me is not hard to see. I will think of myself as ... More About: Other , Service , Others , Self , Make
MAKE THYSELF A SPY FOR THE SERVICE OF OTHERS
2007-03-13 17:36:00 The Mahayana Ideal By constant use the idea of an ?I? attaches itself to foreign drops of seed and blood, although the thing exists not. then why should I not conceive my fellow?s body as my own self? That my body is foreign to me is not hard to see. I will think of myself as ... More About: Other , Service , Others , Self , Make
SLIDE MEDLEY
2007-03-10 20:42:00 Here’s twenty minutes of pedal steel love (160vbr - mp3) from Mr. Emmons, Susan Alcorn, and from Demola Adepoju, out of Nigeria. The photo is of a Sho-Bud Maverick. I have no idea why they’ve kept their value over the years but I do know why I sold mine some three decades ago. I wrestled it ... More About: Slide , Medley
SLIDE MEDLEY
2007-03-10 20:42:00 Here’s twenty minutes of pedal steel love (160vbr - mp3) from Mr. Emmons, Susan Alcorn, and from Demola Adepoju, out of Nigeria. The photo is of a Sho-Bud Maverick. I have no idea why they’ve kept their value over the years but I do know why I sold mine some three decades ago. I wrestled it ... More About: Slide , Medley
WHAT ASSURANCE HAVE WE?
2007-02-26 19:25:00 Since a wise man can be mistaken, and a hundred men, and many nations, yes, and human nature is mistaken for many centuries about this or that, what assurance have we that sometimes it stops being mistaken, and in this century it is not making a mistake? –Montaigne More About: What , Hat , Have
CULTURE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
2007-02-17 16:58:08 (Terence McKenna clip) To this I would add: Cult ure programs you and deprograms the Four Noble Truths. More About: Your , Friend
WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?
2007-02-17 16:58:08 This month’s teaching cartoon is a version of a story from the canon of Nasruddin. Ha! I mean cannon. More About: Just , What , Hat
AMBIENT HIGHWAY
2007-02-17 16:58:08 A sound design experiment recorded on a Zoom H4 while driving on the freeway. Then the sound file was smacked around in the shaman’s sound shop. Mother May I Drive [mp3 9mb] No, it’s not music, it’s sound. More About: High , Ambient , Highway
SNOWED
2007-02-17 16:58:08 My Honda Civic is good in the snow once it gets moving but it needs to be moving. Today a foot of snow has captured my car, Coltrane, in the driveway. The local news channels have switched to “Winter Storm 2007″ coverage and proven that there are few subjects made more fatuous in the mouths of local talking heads than lousy weather. Today’s storm is small beans compared to what upstate New York has been subjected to. I don;t know how you exit your house after twelve feet has fallen as it did in Oswego County, New York the week of January 5. More About: Snow
SEA WORLD
2007-02-17 16:58:08 Several captures from the old web site. Subject: organizational oceanography! Weick and Mintzberg are two of my main guys. Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy. Karl Weick On Re-Punctuating the Problem in New Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness; Jossey-Bass 1977 In fact, the real cause of this so-called turbulence may be planning itself, which by imposing formalized procedures on organizations has desensitized them and made them vulnerable to unexpected changes. — Put it more boldly, if your organization has formal plans but no vision, and if you then try to control your future so rigidly that you cannot adapt en route, then every unpredicted change you will encounter will make you feel as if the sky is falling. Henry Mintzberg That’s Not Turbulence, Chicken Little, It’s Really Opportunity Planning Review; Nov-Dec.1994 Planning concerns m... More About: World
NOVEL IMAGES
2007-02-17 16:58:08 If an organization is narrow in the images that it directs toward its own actions, then when it examines what it has said, it will see only bland displays. This means in turn that the organization won’t be able to make much interesting sense of what’s going on or of its place in it. That’s not a trivial outcome, because the kind of sense that an organization makes of its thoughts and of itself has an effect on its ability to deal with change. An organization that continually sees itself in novel images, images that are permeated with diverse skills and sensitivities, thereby is equipped to deal with altered surroundings when they appear. Karl Weick The Social Psychology of Organizing, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill 1979 More About: Images , Novel , Image , Ages
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
2007-02-17 16:58:08 Wow! An underling of Georgia state legislator Ben Bridge s writes a memo tagging a Jewish Pharisee conspiracy as the cause of “secular evolution science”. Then, after lying about it in the aftermath of the memo’s stirring the pot, State rep. Bridges admits, courtesy of talkingpointsmemo: Asked if he agreed with the Kaballah evolution conspiracy theory and the earth’s lack of motion, he told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, ?I agree with it more than I would the Big Bang Theory or the Darwin Theory. I am convinced that rather than risk teaching a lie why teach anything?? If this kind of thing interests you, by all means follow links back to the memo, and media hullabaloo in Georgia. Rep. Bridges had help and it all leads back to fixedearth.com. Consider: WHAT IF - the Bible teaches a stationary earth (just like everyone agreed it did until Copernican and finally Newtonian “mathematics” scared the churches into thinking ... More About: Ridge
DR. ROSS, I HAVE A QUESTION
2007-02-17 16:58:08 Interesting article about a scientist and creationist. New York Times: Believing Scripture But Playing By Science’s Rules But Dr. Ross is hardly a conventional paleontologist. He is a ?young earth creationist? ? he believes that the Bible is a literally true account of the creation of the universe, and that the earth is at most 10,000 years old. For him, Dr. Ross said, the methods and theories of paleontology are one ?paradigm? for studying the past, and Scripture is another. In the paleontological paradigm, he said, the dates in his dissertation are entirely appropriate. The fact that as a young earth creationist he has a different view just means, he said, ?that I am separating the different paradigms.? He likened his situation to that of a socialist studying economics in a department with a supply-side bent. ?People hold all sorts of opinions different from the department in which they graduate,? he said. ?What?s that to anybody else?? If I were a colleague of Dr. Ross, I w... More About: Question , Have , Quest
NOVEL IMAGES
2007-02-16 14:30:00 If an organization is narrow in the images that it directs toward its own actions, then when it examines what it has said, it will see only bland displays. This means in turn that the organization won’t be able to make much interesting sense of what’s going on or of its place in it. That’s ... More About: Images , Novel , Image , Ages
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
More articles from this author:2007-02-15 19:29:00 Wow! An underling of Georgia state legislator Ben Bridge s writes a memo tagging a Jewish Pharisee conspiracy as the cause of “secular evolution science”. Then, after lying about it in the aftermath of the memo’s stirring the pot, State rep. Bridges admits, courtesy of talkingpointsmemo: Asked if he agreed with the Kaballah evolution conspiracy theory and the ... More About: Ridge 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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