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Comment on Word Camp NYC 2009: It’s All About Recovery by Jim Groom

Jim Groom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:51:56 +0000

Your presentation rocked! Thanks for being such a mensch during the trip and taking a hot for the team by driving. Lastly, I am not a fool.

Comment on 26 Letters in 26 Days by some kinda good » Don’t Floss All Your Teeth!

some kinda good » Don’t Floss All Your Teeth! — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:46:46 +0000

[...] floss starts with D, and on day four of gratiblogging, I am appreciative of [...]

Comment on C is for California by Neva

Neva — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:37:24 +0000

Gratiblog day three! Interesting how you traveled to California to know your dad and yourself. I love how you recall that fear of separation, which I think we’ve all felt. And then the deep emotion evoked by this visit from such a small, graceful creature. Did it guide you out of yourself or lead you deeper in? Journeys to travel and journeys to learn? See you on gratiblog day IV.

Comment on Textual Death and Tangible Plaques by Steve

Steve — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:28:06 +0000

The summer after the book Cold Mountain came out I went on a five day hiking/camping trip (with Porter Blakemore & Sammy Merrill) in the Shining Rock Wilderness of North Carolina where Cold Mountain is located. Near the summit was a wooden plaque nailed to a tree which read “Inman was here.” Inman was the protagonist in the novel.

Comment on C is for California by Steve

Steve — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:21:25 +0000

Grace happens in unexpected places.

Comment on 26 Letters in 26 Days by some kinda good » Ant and Bee on B Day

some kinda good » Ant and Bee on B Day — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:31:25 +0000

[...] friend Shannon proposed 26 Letters in 26 Days, in which one blogs for the first 26 days in November about 26 things one is thankful for and using [...]

Comment on 26 Letters in 26 Days by Neva

Neva — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:33:03 +0000

I’m all about aggregatin’!

Comment on 26 Letters in 26 Days by sehauser

sehauser — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:28:11 +0000

I was thinking everyone can blog from their own space but you have made me think. Maybe I’ll create an aggregated page so everyone who is doing it will get fed into one page.

Comment on 26 Letters in 26 Days by Neva

Neva — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:18:51 +0000

I’m game. Are you proposing a central, open blog/wiki or individual blogs?

Comment on Has That Always Been There? by Steve

Steve — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:31:29 +0000

What you’re describing is a cognitive developmental step, which I think is more associated with being in school than with age, per se. Those connections are there, but one needs to learn enough of the content of each subject area before one can see the connections.

Here’s something I read yesterday from Ben Friedman, an economics professor at Harvard:

“Most talented people, at about your age (probably somewhere between 19 and 22), experience an enormous increase not only in their intellectual capabilities but also in the sheer energy that they are able to bring to bear on a project, and even in their ability to stick with a single project, and work hard on it, for a period as long as six months or even more. … Most of you undertook projects in high school that seemed challenging at the time. No doubt they were. But that was when you were perhaps 17. By age 20 or so, your intellectual capabilities, your energy, and your persistence are all far greater than they were just a few years ago. Most importantly, they are also far greater than you probably understand them to be. Because we normally do not push you enough, to lead you to stretch your developing muscles in any of these regards, many of you do not have a sense of what you are actually capable of doing.”

So what does that bumper sticker say: “Learning Happens!”

Congratulations!