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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

prompt: IQ, EQ...

Today I wrote on my Universe blog something about an alternative to intelligence as a factor in how we consider our worth as human beings, and how to quantify it. We have, in popular usage now, Intelligence Quotient and Emotional Quotient... What factors are important to you, in measuring human... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 6, 2010

A New Prompt: Waiting...

When do you wait? Why do you wait? What are you waiting for? Is it your body waiting--for a bus, for the movie to start...? Is it your heart waiting--for welcome, for reassurance, for true love...? Is it your mind waiting--for connection, for understanding, for answers...? Is it your soul... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 2, 2010

A thought-stimulus

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

prompt of a sort

Wordlovers... if you don't know this site, perhaps you are missing out... https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/1276aa64ff6f7179 Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 8, 2010

post 102- HERETICS

The next time I woke, I followed the passage downwards. The deeper it cut into the soft stone, the higher the ceiling rose, up into a darkness beyond my penetration. The more niches there were,too, and much narrower than those in the family chambers. These were the poor dead, who had not the dignity... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 26, 2010

"Prayer of the Dragon"

Just finished this novel by Eliot Pattison... Excellent! Some years and books ago, Pattison created Shan, a Chinese detective with dissident tendancies, in contemporary times. His stories blend the ancient and modern, spiritual and technical, philosophical and political. They are set in China and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Prompt: Why do we talk about ourselves?

Sometimes, sharing news of what makes me feel happy, or accomplished, I have some notions that my exhiliration is something to be shared, that others who care for me will be happy for me, will celebrate my happiness with me. Sometimes, though, it is the part of me that wants others to be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 27, 2009

A New Prompt: The Sound of Silence

"Hamlet" closes with a long sad tribute to the dying prince, concluding famously with the final line: The rest is silence... Silence can be a refuge, it can be a space in which something wonderful can happen. It can be the sad completion of a dying, or a weapon of shame and humiliation, or the sound... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

a new prompt prompted by a poem by Auden

(from WH Auden's September 1, 1939 )...the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone. This runs through my stream of consciousness every so often... tends to dawdle and splash around. This poem of Auden's does that: one... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 23, 2009

Prompt: Pivotal memories

There are certain memories--images and feelings that are cherished the length of one's life: moments of perfection, moments of great meaning, of special delight... There are others, of course, not the happy ones, but as pivotal in the courses we choose through the rest of our lives. But here, I am... Sign in to see full entry.

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The Kitchen is always a place of warmth--sometimes too warm--and gratifications, of indulgences, clever solutions, and occasional disasters. It is a place of recipes and experimentation. This blog is going to be hanging out in the kitchen for a while.

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