[Minute of Mindfulness: Is there something in your life that is incomplete? How does this make you feel?]
JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Symphony No. 8 in B Minor" by Franz Schubert, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic]
The
day before yesterday, some classes nearly finished reading Chapter One
of The Great Gatsby together before the bell rang. Yesterday, we nearly
got to the part in Chapter Two when Tom (well, you'll see today).
Almost every day, I leave campus thinking of things that we didn't have
quite enough time to read, discuss, consider, or do. We place a huge
value on finishing things; today I am wondering about the value of
incompleteness (if you really want to geek out on this, you can read
about how mathematics and logic -- and therefore a great deal of our
thinking about everything-- is incomplete... articles on Stanford's philosophy site and Wikipedia). What is the value of an unfinished symphony that leaves the next steps or the ending up to us?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Gatsby pp. _____ (finish Chapter 2 and get into Chapter 3)
POST:
1. Post your Gatsby reading notes (title: GATSBY pp. ___)
2. Set a goal based on today's conversations and describe it in a post entitled, MY UN/FINISHED SYMPHONY
LAST POST FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR/ june 3 w online meeting #50
What a year. As often as I say it, I still feel like I don't say it often enough: Thank you. Thank you for your effort, your insig...
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