Sunday, March 22, 2009

the phenomenology of round + re-membering

the powers of 10- charles and ray eames

the poetics of space-gaston bachelard

"sometimes we find ourselves in the presence of a form that guides and encloses our earliest dreams. for a painter, a tree is composed in roundness. but a poet continues the dream from higher up." 239

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the courage to teach-parker j. palmer

"remembering ourselves and our power can lead to revolution, but it requires more than recalling a few facts. Re-membering involves putting ourselves back together, recovering identity and integrity, reclaiming the wholeness of our lives. when we forget who we are we do not merely drop some data. we Dis-member ourselves, with unhappy consequences for our politics, our work, our hearts." 20

thought] our world is composed of infinite circular objects from the tiniest of seeds to our galaxy. maybe it's in the stars, but maybe our lives should be round. in order to grow and find our identity and integrity we need to define what makes us whole, thus round.

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