http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/ "The young usually find the constraints of convention too heavy to escape, except as part of a cult. The middle-aged have no time to spare from the conservative business of living. Only the old can happily make fools of themselves." --James Lovelock en-us 2008-03-31T11:32:50-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/120231.html I just read a definition of shame as suggested by Georg Hegel which is that shame is anger about that which ought not to be. I read an example in Commons, Demick and Goldberg's (1996) treatement of adult development. Here's... gschache 2008-03-31T11:32:50-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/081514.html I think that there is an enormous tension between parenting and communities. Parents need communities and the interpersonal or financial resources that they represent (ECFE, church, civic groups, school programs, support group, etc.), but at the same time it is... Creating Community gschache 2007-06-10T23:10:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/081405.html I was in a focus group this week of other fathers in our family social science PhD program and a theme emerged that I think is irresistably bloggable! There is a supreme irony of being in a top-notch graduate program... Navigating Academia gschache 2007-06-07T10:11:36-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/077036.html ** How to balance the developing need to think critically about research and what others' have researched with an active affirming viewpoint that as equally discipline to identify "helpful intuitions" that research has contributed. ** The power of affective attunement... Future Presentation Ideas gschache 2007-04-18T15:22:11-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/039292.html gschache 2006-02-25T13:29:27-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/035196.html It shouldn't surprise me, but every time I'm in a hurry and I have to dig into my pockets to get my keys I refuse to take my gloves off. Somehow I repeatedly convince myself that I can retrieve my... gschache 2006-01-11T10:39:38-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019935.html Just a few incomplete thoughts about the General College issue. What I don't understand is how diversity can possibly be sustained if the GC is assimilated into other colleges. Just as a person of color both is distinctively different and... Diversity Issues gschache 2005-04-18T00:41:07-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019889.html I wanted to show the contrast between my son, my wife and I a few days ago. Of course, we are all human becomings and so I know that someday (probably too soon) this photo will seem like a distant... Family Life gschache 2005-04-16T17:47:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019887.html Theistic proponents of evolution have developed many ways to conceive of how God and the world can be compatible in a dynamic processual relationship. Panentheism is the idea that the world/universe is contained in God, but--unlike pantheism where the two... Panentheism gschache 2005-04-16T16:54:34-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019074.html It seems wholly insance, but true-iTunes breeds boredom. I'm not sure I can prove this, but I can slurp up a mouthful of anecdotes that meet the criteria, I think. I'll start with my own observation mere moments ago. While... Consumerism gschache 2005-04-04T22:31:24-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019072.html One day I was sitting at my desk in Student Services and I heard a loud clump above my head. I was a little irritated, but otherwise I chalked it up as another temptation to simmer in distraction. After a... Mundane Dialectics gschache 2005-04-04T22:17:21-06:00