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 Copyright 2008 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:32:50 -0600 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:46:35 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33.uthink http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/120231.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/120231.html Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:32:50 -0600 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... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/081514.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/081514.html Creating Community Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:10:35 -0600 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... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/081405.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/081405.html Navigating Academia Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:11:36 -0600 ** 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... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/077036.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/077036.html Future Presentation Ideas Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:22:11 -0600 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/039292.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/039292.html Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:29:27 -0600 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... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/035196.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/035196.html Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:39:38 -0600 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... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019935.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019935.html Diversity Issues Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:41:07 -0600 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... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019889.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019889.html Family Life Sat, 16 Apr 2005 17:47:35 -0600 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... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019887.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019887.html Panentheism Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:54:34 -0600 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... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019074.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019074.html Consumerism Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:31:24 -0600 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... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019072.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/theceilinginmydrink/019072.html Mundane Dialectics Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:17:21 -0600