Google notebook & sports reporting.

I'm not sure whether it will be useful really, but I downloaded Google notebook recently, and aside from saving the Carnival of Infosciences that I haven't finished surfing just recently I used it to hold finds on sports reporting - information I sought for inspiration to pass on to Cricket, a temporary research area for which I did not want to collect more bookmarks. One item I found in the process was an overview of a sports reporting course at George Mason University.

Protopage

I'm finding protopage an easy way to play with the web. Like blogging I guess it would be a little more fun if I had the digital camera, but in the meantime, it lets me quickly jot notes about where I surf and why, and stores the bits and pieces I have collected to share.

Books become art

I thank Library Stuff's latest Carnival of Infosciences for opening my eyes to Michael Whittaker's brilliant idea at the Portland Public Library, Maine.

It is wonderfully innovative: creating art, an attractive new collection, from weeded books that would have to be trashed otherwise, community involvement and positive attention. 

"Don't obey me, my child"

Continuing my catch up on nvc-parenting archives, I paused again at Isabell Peters' poem. I'm trying to work out with what I feel connected, and which parts disconnect with me. (permission to share with others off-list, message 6532):

Don't obey me, my child
(Isabell Peters/2005)

Listen to me and open your heart
when I open mine
when I reveal myself to you

or indoctrinate you - then tell me
if you are irritated.

Should I say "you have to"
don't believe me, my child -
Just bear with me
when I know no other way.

When I think I know better
What's good for you
don't believe me -
just bear with me
when I seem to have no trust.

Listen to me and open your heart
when I open mine
even when I reveal myself
with lack of trust
with my pain
with my disorientation.

Never obey me, my child!

Yet follow me if your heart approves.

(Translation: Sara Hartmann)


Connection: "Yet follow me if your heart approves" - describes the desire I hold that my children might follow my instructions because those instructions are such that would meet my children's needs.

Disconnection: Actually, probably not disconnection, so much as my fear that the number of times my instructions may have been made with my own needs rather than the children's in mind may have created an inclination in them for lack of trust that my instruction would be worth following with approval.

Obedience, compliance... surely they are not needed if I have earned trust?

Ingenious

GUF is visiting over the festival season. I have learned a lot about the history of World Championship Chess, enjoyed the influence of my uncle on my sons, and received the kind of loving support and reassurance that only an uncle can give.

Which reminds me that I caught up with GUK on Skyhero Chat this afternoon.

Do you Sudoku? Cricket and I did (this morning) while watching our new Voyager DVDs (thanks GUF). Then Kitty did too, and she is again, with GUF, while I blog. Earlier we watched Madagascar and played Ingenious.

More to read when I have more time...

GUF will arrive soon, and I must take food to mum's for lunch, but first I want to take note of the site brought to my attention early this morning, to remind me to read it in more depth later: CNVC are considering a sociocratic style of structure, operation and governance - which sounds hopeful.

Googling, as I do, led me to Spirituality and Globalisation: Visions of a different type of social organisation by Wolfgang Fischer. Hmmm....?

Later

"For words, like Nature, half reveal...

and half conceal the Soul within." - Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam