"Oh, and one more thing...Think Forward!"

Steve Jobs' signature coda at his big meetings gets me thinking about my goals for the Spring semester. Just when I think everything is getting done, just when I think that I cannot move another thing forward...I'm going to think of this coda...it will force me to realize that there is always something else that I can be doing to move my thinking forward! Jobs also has signature phrases like "Think Different." My riff on that is going to be "Think Forward!!"

The Joshua Tree...

No poetry this evening...I'm sitting here after a long but very productive week listening to Pandora and like it knew what I was looking for...BAM!!! Bono and the boys come on with, "Where the Streets Have No Name." I love this whole album!!! I actually saw them on this tour while some of you were still in diapers or sucking your thumb...yeah I'm that old!! This album has an energy to it that mere words cannot do justice so I will stop and just say, thank you boys!!!

Today's haiku...01-05-12

Finished Cintron's book this morning at 5:35 am...yeah...I'm insane! This book is really going to be helpful in terms of showing me possibilities as it relates to the type of ethnography I would like to write for my dissertation. I have one more haiku to share with you...my attempt to make meaning out of significant moments from each chapter. Check it out...



Symbolic dirt
     Swept away
By neat and clean electrically dependent gadgetry

As I put this haiku together, I couldn't help but think of technologies like Reading 3D, DIBELS and the antiquated Palm Pilots teachers like myself have to use to track reading comprehension progress with regards to our students. Spend a few minutes checking out Reading 3D's website and let me know whether or not my haiku makes sense.

Today's haiku...01-04-12

Public sphere

    Constrained

By its collective fear

How many times do we let this happen to ourselves during the day? I'm guilty of this every time a supervisor "walks by." I could be doing the most amazing things in that moment and as soon as s/he "walks by", I feel that I need to "perform"...provide a narrative of what is happening in that moment and why. What makes me slide into this performance? Fear! Fear of what though? These are questions that won't be answered tonight however...I feel that it's important to throw them out there. 

How do we break this collective fear? One word...Solidarity...sticking together...supporting each other. It's something the people I work with are very good at...yet the fear still constrains...why?

The power of "IS" 01-03-12

If you've spent any time reading my recent posts...you know that I can't get my head out of the book Angels' Town by, Ralph Cintron. In an effort to synthesize information I'm reading and thinking about from each chapter, I'm trying to compose haiku-like poetry that centers around some that caught my attention while reading. That said, here's today's haiku...


This IS right and this IS wrong
     validated
By the discourse of power

How many times during the day do we use the word "IS" without thinking about the impact it has on the conversation?

A haiku...

Wrote this haiku after reading a mind-blowing chapter in Angels' Town...

Reality 

    Constructed

By collision of messiness and exactness

What do you think? I initially used "moments" in place of "collision." I switched to collision because I think that's the relationship messiness and exactness have...they just don't meet or coexist.

Blogging into the New Year...

First blog post of the New Year and thought I'd share a pic (still playing around with the Blogsy app on my iPad 2) of the latest geeky-toy...the Logitech fold up keyboard. I wrote about it the other day but didn't give you a chance to "see it" in action! Here she is...waiting for me to use her! HA!!!

I spent some time today prepping for the school...which starts back up tomorrow. Won't lie...wish I had more time home to chill but again...I really cannot complain...had a great (almost) 2 weeks off!! Spent lots of time with Steph...went on amazing walks...read 1/2 of the Steve Jobs biography (which is awesome)...went for two great drives in my Beetle...with the top down baby...and even began to wrap my head around what I intend to do with my research this Spring!

So...I'm re-charged and ready to move forward!!!

That's all I've got...for now!