Resilience - Poetry and A New Language Game

Why resilience? I define myself using a term established by Richard Rorty - “liberal ironist -the name for the “sort of person who faces up to the contingency of his own most central beliefs and desires –someone sufficiently historicist and nominalist to have abandoned the idea those central beliefs and desires refer back to something beyond the reach of time.

So my anthem is resilience - the sustaining of life’s daring. From this date forward I will be contributing more and more material along this theme. If you find any material that you think should be included, send it to oldude59@happinessaddiction.info

clipped from www.blockislandtimes.com Poetry project begins with inquiry into resilience and the human spirit “There is a small world of people interested in human rights and writing,” says Marjory Wentworth, Poet Laureate of South Carolina. Wentworth and three other poets from that small world, Carolyn Forche, Taha Muhammed Ali, and Peter Cole, will be here, in our island world, this weekend at the first session of the 2008 Block Island Poetry Workshop, “Poetry, Resilience, and the Human Spirit.” “They are looking for a way to process their emotions. They are afraid, confused and angry,” Wentworth said. “When people get that sick they have little control. They’re told what to do. “ “It was a great way to process the information,” she explained. “There is a redemptive quality in creating a poem about these things.” This weekend, Wentworth and Forche will team up to do a workshop together. “We’ll teach reading between the lines. We’ll write poems from newspaper clippings.”

In Memphis 40 Years Ago - Bending The Arc!!

Are you living the Dream

Democracy is not just a system of governance, as we tend to think of it, but a cultural way of being

Barack - Damn!

If you listen, you will learn!

Lost That Loving Feeling

I think I love that loving feeling - is my mouse just dirty

Mock Social Network

If you like the Office - you’ll love Silkstr. It’s not as much fun as the “red stapler” but nearly. Remember - please contribute to
Slikstr places one more layer on the art-imitating-life scrim by adopting the very “social networking tools” it mocks to better involve viewers in the fun. There’s a blog, a wikidot page with business plan, and page where you can create your own Slikstr video mashups

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Slikstr is a mock videoblog of the titular start-up, which aims to be “the world’s first user-created and -controlled company” with content entirely dictate and directed by its customers.

What does Slikstr actually do, you ask? Not much, really. And that’s the joke: Waiting for Godot exasperation set in the quotidian absurdity of the cubicle and boardroom.

Yes, it’s a rip on The Office (just so we get that out of the way right now), but with a twist of Lonelygirl’s YouTube that allows viewers to not only at first to believe the company’s real, but also watch the action from a variety of behind the scenes perspectives: vlogs, Second Life board meetings, interviews with “staff,” and sneak peeks at applicant interviews.

The whole thing essentially parodies the myriad of useless interactive websites and jobs that have exponentially multiplied since the boom of Web 2.0 start-ups: the company’s mission is not only completely superfluous, but its employees have also learned to speak in pseudo-professional jargon like “implement social networking tools” and constant reaffirmations that “YOU” the customer, is the creator that prove so necessary to convince themselves that what they’re doing is of importance.

Even though they’re clueless. Slikstr COO Michael Golan puts a smooth-selling, overoptimistic face on the company’s complete lack of actual content (watch him double talk his way through an explanation of his duties); Creative Director of Projects Joel Radcliffe has a nonchalant demeanor (an interview with him on what he does is riddled with “you know”s); Hannah Lindman, Director of Community Management and Support, maintains a bubbly exterior but doesn’t understand what’s going on; CEO Louis Ebbage seems to exist only through his Second Life avatar, and addresses customers with gems such as, “Slikstr is a dream, a dream of what can happen when technology and inspiration combine. Techperation, I call it”; and poor new hire Rob DiMenno is the only one honest enough to admit to being befuddled.

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What’s Cool — Happiness Turn On Its Ironic Head?

Happiness - Inside Out

We like to have background noise — whether we’re in the car, at home, or in the office — we have the radio or TV on or the sounds of kids and coworkers keep a constant white noise. How many of us like quiet and solitude? How many like introspection?

More often than not, our outer life is the result of our inner life. Try as we might to hide certain aspects of ourselves, our character and motivations leak out. Do we like what we see? Do others? Here are four tips that will change your inner life and, consequently, impact your outer life:

1. Allow time to spend time in solitude ands silence.
2. Surround yourself with good counselors — this includes family, friends, and professionals.
3. Strive for balance in your personal life, family life, and work life — prioritize your time.
4. Be accountable to someone(s) — a life examined is a successful life.

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Answering Barack’s Question - Talking Across The Divide

Billy Jack and come from different perspectives but we agree to make those differences available to our readers. Come Join. For the full scope of the discussion join us at Diigo Home for Political conversation

clipped from buscreate.blogspot.com Political Conversation - Billy Jack V Levy (Oldude59) Rivers Allow me to introduce you to my friend, Billy Jack. As a member of MyBloglog.com occasionally I wonder around commenting on different post as I go. At one of these stops I came across Billy Jack. He and I have been briefly engaging in passing discussions on his post entitled “Will The Real Barack Obama Please Stand Up.” In our exchange, two things have become apparent to me First, Billy and I have lots of differences Number two, Billy is an extremely intelligent and fair minded individual who can engage in a lively discussion without becoming aggressive or irrational. If you have comments on anything either of us says, your can leave those in the normal comment area at the end of each post or join in the forum discussion following option 2 described below

What Is Greed?

Are you happy with what you have? Does having all that stuff make you happy? I know you want MORE! Some say we have to much and it is weighting down our soul. I say Greed Is Good. What about you?

Why would you Ask?

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