I just walked out of class, (Renaissance drama) and for some reason realized that there are five activities which I desire, at this point, to take up the vast majority of my life. They are,
1. thinking
2. talking
3. reading
4. writing
5. teaching
I am getting to do all of these except teaching right now.
1. I'm thinking about the source of our nation's anxiety about immigration. Samuel Johnson says we need to make sure we know what things/ideas/people are influencing us, so that we can properly ward them off where necessary. Keynes says that it's very hard to know what the influencers are. I think Keynes point is true in the case of the immigration vitriol. What is causing it? Anyway that's what I'm thinking about.
2. I get to talk about these things (well, not the exact thing above, but lots of things) in classes here. And I got to talk about the exact thing above with Tess today.
3. I get to read good essays (like Keynes' and Johnsons') and Middlemarch, which I'm finally picking up again after at least three weeks on the shelf.
4. I get to write, here and for class, and in other outlets.
5. Soon I'll get to teach, though as for content I still have very little idea....
Here's more on the thought of the moment.
I listened to this episode of This American Life today, called Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville. It will not be a surprise to hear that I think this was very well done, especially the first segment, on a conflict that arose in a remote town in Alaska about whether to issue a resolution stating that the town is a welcoming place for immigrants. The hero of the story is the kind of person we love to see in the protagonist role in a novel. Probably also the kind of person we all want to be.
I listened to it on the way to the farmers' market in Santa Fe, which was quite a nice market.
1. thinking
2. talking
3. reading
4. writing
5. teaching
I am getting to do all of these except teaching right now.
1. I'm thinking about the source of our nation's anxiety about immigration. Samuel Johnson says we need to make sure we know what things/ideas/people are influencing us, so that we can properly ward them off where necessary. Keynes says that it's very hard to know what the influencers are. I think Keynes point is true in the case of the immigration vitriol. What is causing it? Anyway that's what I'm thinking about.
2. I get to talk about these things (well, not the exact thing above, but lots of things) in classes here. And I got to talk about the exact thing above with Tess today.
3. I get to read good essays (like Keynes' and Johnsons') and Middlemarch, which I'm finally picking up again after at least three weeks on the shelf.
4. I get to write, here and for class, and in other outlets.
5. Soon I'll get to teach, though as for content I still have very little idea....
Here's more on the thought of the moment.
I listened to this episode of This American Life today, called Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville. It will not be a surprise to hear that I think this was very well done, especially the first segment, on a conflict that arose in a remote town in Alaska about whether to issue a resolution stating that the town is a welcoming place for immigrants. The hero of the story is the kind of person we love to see in the protagonist role in a novel. Probably also the kind of person we all want to be.
I listened to it on the way to the farmers' market in Santa Fe, which was quite a nice market.
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| Little ones playing soccer in a field on the way down. |
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| A little one outside the coffee shop not far from the market |
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| A not-so-little-one finger in the photo! |
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| Sunflowers |
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| I walked back on the street called Acequia Madre which has this water way, ("mother ditch") that was the principal waterway a l'epoque. |
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