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Letting Ideas Grow

The past few years, I’ve really appreciated practicing the art of letting an idea grow.  Incubate.  Take seed before sharing with another.  While some may find it hard to understand, it’s a discipline I find healthy for myself and have valued as I look back on my trek.

My husband recently forwarded on to me a techie article highlighting this notion, using the start-up world as an example.  It’s short and fairly to the point, but I thought you’d appreciate it nonetheless.

From Graduand to Graduate

Phew!  I graduated and received a strong mark on my comprehensive essay (on the topic of freedom + personhood in the fields of theology, philosophy, and art theory).  I couldn’t be more proud of my eight year journey, studying and digesting the material while experiencing life and deep transformation.  Below is a pic with my husband, supervisor and his wife.

News Clip on Ashley Judd

On a work break from tweaking my thesis, I came across an MSNBC news clip on Ashley Judd’s essay.  (She has a Master’s degree from Harvard!)  For some reason, the link won’t work if I cut and paste it nor will it work if I email it to myself and then try to do something with it…  Anyways, if you haven’t seen it, I would recommend going to their website and checking it out.

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate her words.  They are words from my own heart, but it is she who has the platform to make this dialogue a national conversation.  There are probably many other women who feel the same, but their individual voices got ‘lost’ in the air, and perhaps there are many who are starting to become aware of these forces of oppression that they have felt subconsciously.  Thank you, Ashley, for speaking on all of our behalf.

Dinosaur Eggs Found

Wow – this is pretty cool.

The “Dignity of Work”

Yesterday, I came across a news slip that I found particularly fascinating and shocking.  It is about the “dignity of work” as regards low-income and middle-class moms in America.

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up-with-chris-hayes/47053808

A Link to a Social Critique on Women, Weight, and Culture

I heart Ashley Judd.  Read her wonderful critique on women, weight, and culture here.  I appreciate her unmasking and addressing the powers that pervade American culture as regards (just one facet of ) what women deal with.  Please forward this link to others that you may feel would appreciate it.

An Urban Melody

This is blog worthy:  I hear birds singing in the city over the roar of traffic and the muffled noises of urban congestion.

…DAdada  DEEE….                             …DAdada Deee DEEE Dedada…

Who are these lovely song birds that sing?

P.S.  I attempted to write the da’s and the de’s on a ’scale’ but use your imagination since WordPress isn’t inclined to.  Are you able to hear or “hear” anything new today that otherwise *should* be crowded out over the noise of life?  x

A Disssssssipaaaaaating Phrase

Sitting in my flat, perched up on a stool,
I sit ergonomically correct.

I stare into my screen
with a city skyline in the distance.

That is not the only ’skyline’
I see.

There is one inside my (new) apartment,
too.

With each new day,
the ‘Mind the Boxes’ slogan
dissipates.