Musings of a peripatetic wannabe-sage: writing reflection

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And, nothing...but commitment

The commitment to write each morning has one major downfall: the blank mind staring at the blank page staring back. It insists on fear--writer's block, so-called--but it lacks power, for commitment remains. I will write, even if about not having anything to write, for writing is primarily about task, not about inspiration.

So, for today, this is the fruit of my morning ten minutes: a renewed commitment kept and a page filled.

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The Moleskine Returns

In writing my dissertation proposal these past months, I've not printed one article and very, very few drafts--at least on paper. Save-as-PDF and the CutePDF printer app have come in handy for programs/docs/sites with no PDF output capacity. I notate, outline, draft, and edit using Adobe on my Samsung Tab2. It's been amazing.

But something is missing: writing on paper. Sketching ideas with pen and paper creates a headspace that writing on a screen just cannot accomplish for me. Maybe it's the embodied-ness of it. Maybe it's the time sitting at a table, alone with pen and paper. At any rate, this first day of the fall 2014 term, the Moleskine returns.

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I had writing for breakfast...

...and coffee, an orange, and smoked oysters. Yum on all counts.

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A place for gathering the bits from the waste book

If I can muster the discipline, this is what I want my blog to be: the recipient of the contents of a waste book, a place to systematize the random ideas, observations, and encounters of the day. Of course, this means having the discipline to capture the bits.

I am torn between leveraging Evernote and playing in the Moleskine for use as a waste book. But then, maybe a combination of both is in order, for the type of thinking done with pen and paper is often different (for me) than the type of thinking done with finger and smart phone.

Time will tell.

For those wondering what a "waste book" is...

"Tradesmen have their 'waste book' (scrawl-book, composition book I think in German), in which they enter from day to day everything they buy and sell, everything all mixed up without any order to it, from there it is transferred to the day-book, where everything appears in more systematic fashion ... This deserves to be imitated by scholars. First a book where I write down everything as I see it or as my thoughts put it before me, later this can be transcribed into another, where the materials are more distinguished and ordered." (quoted in Notebook (style) on Wikipedia and in From The Waste Books on Orange Crate Art).

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Stop messing about with someone else’s authorial intent

The very notion that the reader determines meaning without regard to authorial intent utterly mystifies me. Readers cannot create intended meaning; only authors do that.

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Migratory Composition

An itinerant process of writing in which, the traditional writing spot having been unjustly usurped, the writer moves from here-to-there as she moves from section-to-section.

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When will we stop muting the voice of the deep orderliness?

so easily we forget the enormity,
the complexity, of it all,
searching from micro to macro,
missing one for another,
refusing to lift the canopy.

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Idea Fodder

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"The equations and predictions of the science, super-accurate though they are, offer us only a glimpse behind that veil." -bbc

We see what we expect:
Atheist sees pointlessness,
Skeptic, questions,
Platonist, eternal universals,
Believer, an orderly God,
Pantheist, a divine universe.

What is the truth?

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Resource:
What do you get if you divide science by God?

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Perceptions are difficult to change, but they can change.

THEY'RE STILL HUNTING FOR GODLESS...

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | New spark in classic experiments: "There's a new spark of life in iconic experiments first done in the 1950s, on the kind of primordial 'soup' that may have predated life itself on Earth."

This would be intriguing, except for the pesky problem of spontaneous generation, which was de-bunked in the 1700s and the fact that the experiment is conducted by intelligent designer.

So, question to any evolutionists out there, any answer for the problem of how life came from the non-living primordial soup? And, if the soup was living, where did its life come from?

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evolution

creationism

intelligent design