New email address

2002-10-28 Thread Michael Kukla
Hi everyone, I have a new home e-mail address: mcku...@tpg.com.au. My apologies if you have already received this notification. CU later. Michael.

Re: Canadians, Germans, and Moose

2002-10-28 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
Dear Ralph and you all, you are certainly telling part of the truth...the real story is that I admired the green markings (I am the only one in Berlin that has a glass measuring cup with green markings) and then either you or your gracious wife just offered the cup. Of course, I accepted not knowin

mental meanderings and self-organization

2002-10-28 Thread Julie Smith
Greetings ~ In my quest for a learning/education theory that resonates with my sense of the world, I came across a book titled Education on the Edge of Possibility by Renate Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine. There's a lot to like about their learning theory. They talk about the implications of

Re: mental meanderings and self-organization

2002-10-28 Thread Ralph Copleman
Julie, See the story of the universe, how everything moved forward creating itself. See evolution on planet Earth and how life learned to diversify and make ever-more complex and capable life forms by following a few simple rules. Now see how far we humans have gotten away from the lessons of the

Re: mental meanderings and self-organization

2002-10-28 Thread Julie Smith
Thanks Ralph, Yes of course I agree with you. But could you tell me again how it is that we get back in harmony with the natural order? Really. Brass tacks. Or, if you like, a pig's ear (softer, more pliable and reslient, you know. though perhaps less to the point :). and also somewhat

Re: mental meanderings and self-organization

2002-10-28 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
Dear Julie, you know about my insistence on having a planning group getting some understanding on outcome, theme and mix of participants. But when its up to you I guess you face the same questions. Could one solution be not to find a theme andn to give that task back to the participants with the q

Re: mental meanderings and self-organization

2002-10-28 Thread Meg Salter
Hi Ralph and Julie First off, I don't work much in the education system (first caveat) - unless you count two kids in school! If self-organizations is present since the big bang - is in fact how evolution/ consciousness works then the seeing of this says more about the seer than anything else.

Re: mental meanderings and self-organization

2002-10-28 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
Dear Julie, Gunnar Hjelholt, Danish psychologist, wrote a book "Survival in the organisation" on his experiences in a concentration camp. He also makes the point that we create things in our image(s) and tells this little story: "Where do systems come from? In the Jewish narrative of creation, the

Re: mental meanderings and self-organization

2002-10-28 Thread Chris Corrigan
Here's one reply I had to reading Julie's post: The Secret By Denise Levertov Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry. I who don't know the secret wrote the line. They told me (through a third person) they had found it but not what it was not even what line it was. No

Re: mental meanderings and self-organization

2002-10-28 Thread Julie Smith
Chris, Here, catch this warm bear-hug I'm sending you in this expanded now time of 11:32. There, you've gotten it. And look still 11:32! Much love to you and all (and thanks so very much for the call!) Julie > -Original Message- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.e

Re: Poetry contest

2002-10-28 Thread audrey coward @bellnet.ca
Tranformation Open space in your heart Drill down down down Past all fears Let them go Arrive in virgin open space Where you become brand new once again and greet yourself as if for the first time. Audrey Coward - Original Message - Fr

Re: mental meanderings and self-organization

2002-10-28 Thread Toni Petrinovich
Julie, have you ever investigated the Sudbury Schools. You can find them through searching for Sudbury Schools with Google or Hotbot. These schools allow the children to pair themselves with "teachers" to "learn" what they wish to learn. It is a truly wonderous experience for all and the graduat

Re: Poetry Contest

2002-10-28 Thread Chris Corrigan
Ten lines for friends in November Now, as vernal and autumnal dance their biannual swirl Over the sea out my window and diagonal to my point on this globe Vitality flows through the unexamined places Embraced by my friends as they gather in Marysville, non descript and of no particular geography B