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  • Forward motion learning

    This tendency extends to video as well, as experiments with video lectures and even Discovery Channel shows have shown. Increasing the tempo of a recording seems to stave off boredom and help people stay engaged. “With the slower pace, my… Continue reading

    Forward motion learning

  • Justice Sotomayor Ain’t Having the SCOTUS Ruling that Extends the Police State

    One by one, [Justice Sotomayor] ran through instances of a Supreme Court all too willing to grant police more power to detain, arrest and search citizens — based on pretextual reasons, the way they look, or even suspicion that they had… Continue reading

  • Violence All Too Common Against LGBT People in USA

    In a 2011 analysis of FBI hate-crime statistics, the Southern Poverty Law Center found that “LGBT people are more than twice as likely to be the target of a violent hate-crime than Jews or black people” Continue reading

    Violence All Too Common Against LGBT People in USA

  • Republicans cannot even be honest about what happened in Orlando

    If you are about to defend Republicans in this country on their anti-LGBTQ platform, please refrain from the “Hate the sin, love the sinner” bullshit and the “family values” poppycock.  If you think Republican words and actions do not add fire to the… Continue reading

    Republicans cannot even be honest about what happened in Orlando

  • Tabernacle inertia

    I would drift out sightless upon the water of the endless abyss obliviated of every memory and forgetting expectations.  I would glide zigzagging the trade winds of exchange becoming a whisper of what was yet never could be.   I… Continue reading

  • Tolerating power

    Even when you do not like or respect given authority figures, most of us will respond without resistance to such POWER (mana) up to the point this becomes intolerable or those who wield authority become powerless. As human tolerance at… Continue reading

  • thus, here we are

    Softly a memory Sneaking up alongside Overtakes a heart And joy mingles with sadness Blessing a moment With the presence of those Who can never remain forgotten Thus, here we are Together Continue reading

    thus, here we are

  • Tell all the truth but tell it slant

    Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man… Continue reading

    Tell all the truth but tell it slant

  • Perfection (And: Where To Find It)

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  • Quiet and meditation as pedagogy

    In 2007, James Dierke, then the principal of the Visitacion Valley Middle School in a troubled neighborhood in San Francisco, was determined to improve both the quality of education and student behavior in his school. He adopted a system called… Continue reading

    Quiet and meditation as pedagogy