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| 033008 Sunday "Church Day" |
| Monday, 31 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
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and, if you're feeling especially ambitious, my
Also, I invite you to read any of these, related comments that I posted this month:
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
I felt at peace at church and elsewhere most of the day. I felt more tired with time. I definitely felt muscle soreness, which I attribute to Friday's weight training workout.
Worldview Elaboration
To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for doing all I did today, which helped meet my need for living a fulfilling life.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for her companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Sunday, 30 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're feeling especially ambitious, my
Feel free also to read any of these, related comments that I posted this month:
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
I really enjoyed the day and my time with Aliana.
Worldview Elaboration
To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for doing all I did today, which helped meet my need for living a fulfilling life.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for her companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Saturday, 29 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're feeling especially ambitious, my
Feel free also to read any of these, related comments that I posted this month:
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
I really enjoyed the day and my time with Aliana.
Worldview Elaboration
To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for doing all I did today, which helped meet my need for living a fulfilling life.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for her companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Friday, 28 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're feeling especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- preparing food for Dad
- cleaning the kitchen
- preparing yesterday's blog entry
- composing and sending church-related email
- catnapping
- treadmilling
- shaving and showering
- driving Dad and Aliana to the hospital for Dad's outpatient rehabilitation
- homeschooling with Aliana, emphasizing reading, drawing and math
- driving Dad and Aliana home
- depositing a check
- picking up some groceries
- stretching
- cleaning the kitchen again
- listening to the audio book version of The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- doing laundry
- eating with Cherita
- preparing this blog entry
- posting these articles, revised from blog posts:
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
I really enjoyed the day and the time with Aliana.
Worldview Elaboration
To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for doing all I did today, which helped meet my need for living a fulfilling life.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for her companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Wednesday, 26 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're feeling especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
I really enjoyed the day and the time with Aliana.
Worldview Elaboration
To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for doing all I did today, which helped meet my need for living a fulfilling life.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for her companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her web design work and for her effort detangling and straightening Aliana's hair.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Tuesday, 25 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- driving Dad and Aliana to the hospital for Dad's outpatient rehabilitation
- homeschooling with Aliana, emphasizing reading
- driving Dad and Aliana home
- catnapping
- treadmilling
- catnapping again
- shaving and showering
- driving Aliana to do some grocery shopping
- driving Aliana to the library
- watching Aliana put on a puppet show
- homeschooling with Aliana at the library, emphasizing math, human anatomy and reading
- reading more of The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom by Mary Griffith
- helping Aliana check out books and a video cassette
- discussing with Aliana going to the museum
- driving Aliana home
- cleaning the kitchen
- catching up on photo editing and text composition for blog entries for yesterday and today
- researching the Field Museum of Natural History, Metra and walking in preparation for a future trip to the museum with Aliana to learn more especially about dinosaurs and other, prehistoric life
- downloading and viewing about 15 minutes of the class discussing Chapter 4 of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle, with the class presented by Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
I really enjoyed the day and the time with Aliana.
Worldview Elaboration
To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for doing all I did today, which helped meet my need for living a fulfilling life.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for her companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Monday, 24 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
I really enjoyed the day and the time with Aliana.
Worldview Elaboration
To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for doing all I did today, which helped meet my need for living a fulfilling life.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for her companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| 032308 Sunday "Easter, Church Day" |
| Monday, 24 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- preparing prescriptions for Dad
- driving the crew to church
- moderating the Open Forum Discussion
- attending the worship service, learning the name of the ministerial candidate
- enjoying coffee and conversation
- driving Dad home
- driving Cherita and Aliana grocery shopping
- reading more of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
- eating with Cherita and Aliana
- cleaning the kitchen
- walking with Aliana to a playground
- watching birds on the way
- enjoying the playground together
- walking home
- homeschooling with Aliana, emphasizing math and reading
- viewing/listening to some YouTube videos
- preparing this blog entry
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
Today was full and (thank goodness) headache-free for me. I really enjoyed the day and the time with Aliana.
Worldview Elaboration
To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for getting the crew to church for the first time since Dad's stroke.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for her companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| 032208 Saturday "Birthday Celebration" |
| Sunday, 23 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
Today was full and (thank goodness) headache-free for me. I'm really happy that
Aliana enjoyed her birthday celebration.
Worldview Elaboration To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to myself for exercising, beginning to meet my needs for exercise, health and stroke prevention.
- I'm grateful to the makers of Doctor Who. That show helps me meet my need for fun.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Friday, 21 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
Today was full and (thank goodness) headache-free for me.
Worldview Elaboration To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to myself for walking on the treadmill, beginning to meet my need for exercise.
- I'm grateful to the makers of Doctor Who. That show helps me meet my need for fun.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Thursday, 20 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- driving Dad and Aliana to Dad's doctor appointment
- stopping with Aliana to view the fish in the aquarium
- doing homeschooling with Aliana focusing especially on phonics and spelling
- driving Dad and Aliana home
- driving back to the doctor's office to pick up a bag of medication samples that Dad left behind and to drop off a list of his medications
- experiencing another deeply unpleasant headache in the afternoon, doing much resting and napping
- viewing the first DVD in Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World, a book and 2 DVD set
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
For me, today's headache felt overwhelming. I'm glad I viewed Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World, though. It helped.
Worldview Elaboration To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Eckhart Tolle for creating and publishing his Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World, and to my brother, Steve, for giving it to me as a gift. The former helps me meet my need for inner peace. The latter helps me meet my need for support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for homeschooling with me.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Wednesday, 19 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
For me, today qualified as a full - yet also sometimes joyful - day.
Worldview Elaboration To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Mary Griffith for writing and publishing The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom which so far is meeting my needs for progress, intelligibility, learning and understanding.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Tuesday, 18 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
For me, today qualified as a full day. Sometimes I felt joy, other times I felt otherwise.
I felt stirred up by the
Atheism, Agnosticism and Humanism discussion.
Yesterday, I felt so high after the Enlightenment class. At that time I expected so much tonight from the AAH discussion.
Had I been in a different mindset or mood, I might have enjoyed the AAH discussion more. I found value in what each participant shared. Yet I also felt overwhelm in relation to the way in which several approached the topic of nontheistic value judgment.
I would have liked more understanding expressed about the distinctions between moralistic, relativistic and life-serving value judgment. I felt overwhelm in part because I felt doubtful that I could
concisely articulate my views about these distinctions.
After returning home, I discussed this with Cherita, then thought I'd watch some of the class discussing Chapter 3 of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle, with the class presented by Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle. I enjoyed nearly an hour... and it helped me grow calmer... but the next day, I regretted not getting to sleep, earlier.
Worldview Elaboration: Moralistic Value Judgment, Authoritarianism and Dogmatism
Today, in my Impression of the Day, I mentioned that at church, I felt stirred up by the Atheism, Agnosticism and Humanism discussion. I mentioned that I would have liked more understanding expressed about the distinctions between moralistic, relativistic and life-serving value judgment. I felt overwhelm in part because I felt doubtful that I could concisely articulate my views about these distinctions.
It dawned on me that here, in my Worldview Elaboration, I could spell out more what I mean.
In my Worldview Summary, I distinguish between moralistic, relativistic and life-serving value judgment. In doing so, I express my overwhelming preference for life-serving value judgment.
Later in my Worldview Summary, I acknowledge the personal relativity that I'm convinced life-serving value judgment recognizes and embodies.
In addition, I stress how by my standards, moralistic value judgment qualifies as (at least implicitly) authoritarian.
How does all this relate to Atheism, Agnosticism and Humanism?
It relates in the following way.
Christopher Hitchens has written a best-selling book called God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. At the Atheism, Agnosticism and Humanism discussion, excerpts from Hitchens' public statements about atheism were played. As part of his remarks, he stressed how he regards beliefs in God and religion as profoundly authoritarian.
I would have liked it if, during our later discussion, more participants had noticed the connection between the typically authoritarian orientation of so many of the world's religions, and the implicit authoritarianism of moralistic value judgment. Instead, most of the discussion that I heard focused on how a sense of "right and wrong" could be developed without belief in a god.
By my standards, it's quite possible to develop a sense of value judgment without the authoritarianism implicit in "right and wrong" moralistic judgment or in authoritarian conceptions of religion.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Mary Griffith for writing and publishing The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom which so far is meeting my needs for progress, intelligibility, learning and understanding.
- I'm grateful to Eckhart Tolle for writing A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose and to Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle for offering the class discussing Chapter 3. The book and the class are helping meet my needs for learning, inner peace and self-understanding.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Monday, 17 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- going with Aliana to the playground
- attending the next session of the Enlightenment class (part of The History of Christianity, with emphasis on intellectual history) at Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist (CCUU); today's session focused on the Philosophes; I assisted with the playing of the DVDs - I really enjoyed the class today
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
For me, today qualified as another full - yet also joyful - day.
Worldview Elaboration To be continued...
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Sunday, 16 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- shaving and showering
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- cleaning the kitchen
- drinking coffee
- with Cherita's help, readying Dad for church
- driving Dad to church
- listening to audio of Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
- moderating the Open Forum Discussion
- attending the worship service with Dad
- attending the conversation and refreshments hour with Dad
- driving Dad home
- going for a walk with Aliana
- finding a new playground
- spending time with Aliana on the playground
- homeschooling with Aliana, emphasizing exploration, question-asking, math and physical exercise
- catnapping
- helping Dad walk many times
- chatting with Cherita including about her concerns
- preparing yesterday's blog entry, including my reflections, David Hume, Ayn Rand and Vid Axel on Consciousness
- updating other pages on this website
- feeling exhausted, going to bed
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
For me, today qualified as another full - yet also joyful - day.
Worldview Elaboration: Looking Forward to Writing More
I look forward to writing more, soon, about the
church in which I participate.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for writing about my worldview. This helped meet my needs for self-expression and progress.
- I'm grateful to myself for staying current with my blog.
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Saturday, 15 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- shaving and showering
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- cleaning the kitchen
- drinking coffee
- enjoying Free Day food, including Aliana's original, marshmallow lasagna recipe
- helping Dad view DVD recordings borrowed from the Enlightenment class (part of The History of Christianity, with emphasis on intellectual history) at Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist (CCUU); these lectures focused on the philosophy of David Hume
- discussing with Dad his reactions and mine to the philosophy of David Hume, Ayn Rand's views about Hume and hers by contrast; plus my worldview in relation to consciousness, its means and its limitations
- homeschooling with Aliana, emphasizing reading and question-asking
- doing laundry (moving, folding, sorting)
- cleaning and organizing especially in our room
- catnapping
- helping Dad walk many times
- helping Dad walk for exercise
- chatting with Cherita including about websites
- preparing yesterday's blog entry
- listening to audio of Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
Today qualified as another, very full day for me.
Worldview Elaboration: David Hume, Ayn Rand and Vid Axel on Consciousness
As part of my review of today's playful actions, I mentioned that I helped Dad view two, DVD lectures. These were part of a series of classes (now offered at church) which focuses on the Enlightenment. These two lectures focused on the life and thought of David Hume.
Following his viewing of the lectures, Dad and I began to discuss them. Specifically, we discussed of the philosophy of David Hume.
(Throughout this post, when I quote, I paraphrase from memory.)
Early in our discussion, Dad said, "I'm not sure I know anything."
I chuckled and said, "Are you feeling quite sure that you might know nothing?"
He smiled.
After a pause, he asked - recognizing how deeply immersed in Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism I had been for two decades - "Did Ayn Rand have anything to say about Hume?" I'm guessing that he felt confident that this would get me going.
I mentioned that nowadays, for multiple reasons, I feel much dissatisfaction with what I take to be Ayn Rand's propensity to moralize. By my standards, this moralizing stood in the way of her more deeply appreciating why various thinkers formulated views with which she disagreed.
I also mentioned that in watching one of the lectures about Hume, I felt grateful. I felt that way because I gained a deeper appreciation for what I gather were his fundamental intentions in formulating his philosophy.
I mentioned that it struck me that in expressing his dissatisfaction with various thinkers whom he regarded as dogmatic, Hume sought to pay attention to a crucial attribute of consciousness. Consciousness, he maintained, isn't produced by revelation, as if some supernatural power were magically beaming awareness into a person. Instead, Hume insisted, consciousness involves both natural means and limitations.
At least as I gather Hume is commonly interpreted, however, in the following respect, I formulate my worldview differently than he did.
Given that our consciousness involves means and limitations, and that consciousness is mediated by a process, Hume is said to have disputed that we can ever know the nature of "things in themselves."
(With the expression, "things in themselves," I don't feel remotely as satisfied as I would prefer. In the following remarks, I will take it that Hume maintains that, instead of remaining aware of the world, we remain aware only of our impressions.)
Rand did offer a response to Hume, I told Dad. She maintained that implicitly, Hume held consciousness to a supernaturalistic standard and faulted it for failing to live up to that standard.
I explained that I found this paradoxical, since it seems to me as if Hume had striven to develop a philosophy in an effort to overcome what he regarded as the limitations of the supernaturalistic model of human knowledge!
Returning to Rand, though, she maintained that yes, consciousness involves an identity, a process and limitations. Nevertheless, she did not consider the failure of consciousness to receive magically beamed revelation as any kind of a failure to remain aware of the world. By contrast, she maintained that the only kind of consciousness which could ever actually function of course would involve an identity, a process and limitations. Such were the means by which any consciousness could be aware of the world - not the obstacles to such awareness.
Within my own worldview, I agree with what I take to be Rand's position that consciousness involves an identity, a means and limitations. I agree with Rand that consciousness takes place by some means and in some, specific form. I agree that consciousness as a faculty gives us awareness of the world.
Rand uses this model to maintain, for example, that all forms of sensory perception qualify as instances of authentic awareness rather than creators of illusion.
Even so, however, I take a radical step which, by my understanding, Rand never took. Indeed, I imagine that in response to my taking such a step, she would have reacted with hostility.
I take Rand to maintain the following. She limits to the sensory perceptual level her idea that human consciousness always involves authentic awareness. Once we reach the conceptual level, though, our consciousness no longer functions automatically. Human beings embody free will, can choose to focus their minds or not, and by this means can cripple their consciousness conceptually. (To me, she seems to imagine that much of the time, most human beings are indeed crippling their own minds!) For Rand, only once one meets specific, rigorous, epistemological criteria can one justifiably claim to be conceptually aware.
This all relates to my idea that overwhelmingly, Western thought (and perhaps most human thought in recorded history) has remained preoccupied with the question of "true versus false." By contrast, I conceive of truth as a biological, human need which each person satisfies to different degrees along a continuum - an idea which I introduce in my worldview summary.
So in my worldview, I take my interpretation of Rand's idea of being conscious "by some means and in some form" and, in a different sense than she does, I apply it to the conceptual level, as well.
By my standards, all forms of thought and conceptualization fundamentally remain instances of authentic awareness rather than illusions. For me, though, thoughts, worldviews and so on model the world. Some model the world more efficiently than others. But all of them model the world.
I look forward to writing more about these and related ideas in the future.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for writing about my worldview. This helped meet my needs for self-expression and progress.
- I'm grateful to myself for staying current with my blog.
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| 031408 Friday "First Library Card" |
| Friday, 14 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- preparing prescriptions for Dad
- driving Dad to Outpatient Rehab
- homeschooling with Aliana, emphasizing reading
- visiting the library
- watching Aliana learn about human anatomy on the computer
- watching Aliana participate in a craft workshop
- watching Aliana obtain her first library card
- spending time on the playground with Aliana
- catnapping
- cleaning the kitchen
- doing laundry
- helping Dad walk many times
- helping Dad walk for exercise
- chatting with Cherita including about websites
- listening to audio of Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
I felt so excited that Aliana felt so excited about getting her first library card today!
Worldview Elaboration: Valuing All Human Beings' Needs
I think it benefits each of us far more when the highest possible percentage of humanity consists of healthy, happy, productive individuals. For me, it's staggering to imagine, for example, how many of the starving in the world today might otherwise develop into the intellectual equivalents of Einstein.
Even when individuals aren't that capable, however, with one another, frequently they can produce and trade. By doing so, they can massively contribute to our well-being in ways that they never could if their needs for food and shelter, for example, weren't met.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for writing about my worldview. This helped meet my needs for self-expression and progress.
- I'm grateful to myself for listening to audio of Eckhart Tolle reading his book, The Power of Now. This helped meet my need for inner peace.
- I'm grateful to myself for snapping photos for inclusion in this blog entry. Doing so helped meet my needs for awareness and celebration.
- I'm grateful to myself for staying current with my blog. Doing so helped meet my need for efficiency.
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts. This helped meet my needs for collaboration and growth.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Thursday, 13 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- shaving and showering
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- getting Dad water to drink
- preparing prescriptions for Dad
- expressing my dismay to Dad, eventually reaching deeper, mutual understanding
- picking up a prescription
- shopping for groceries
- making a deposit
- researching at the library about homeschooling and unschooling
- cleaning the kitchen
- doing laundry
- catnapping
- helping Dad walk many times
- helping Dad walk for exercise
- listening to audio of Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
- chatting with Cherita including about websites
- homeschooling with Aliana, emphasizing reading
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impressions of the Day
Although I feared doing so, I'm convinced that expressing my dismay to
Dad did foster progress.
I'm happy that I'm
listening to audio of Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.
Thanks to this, later in the day, I felt calmer, more peaceful and blissful. Worldview Elaboration: Needs, Empathy, Rosenberg, Maslow
Marshall Rosenberg cites Abraham Maslow as an influence. I expect to explore Maslow's work more in the future.
I've heard many refer to Maslow's "hierarchy of needs."
When offering verbally facilitated empathy, those using NVC* often involve a possibly related technique. Having asked, "Are you feeling [guessing a feeling] because you're needing [guessing a need]?" one follows with another question. "And if that need were met, what need would be met by that?" It's often reported that this helps individuals reach more deeply as they identify more fundamental needs.
*Nonviolent Communication (NVC) developed by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D., author of the book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, remains a substantial source of inspiration, among others, in my process of Communicating Across Differences.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for writing about my worldview. This helped meet my needs for self-expression and progress.
- I'm grateful to myself for expressing my dismay to
Dad because doing so helped meet my need for self-expression and did foster mutual progress.
- I'm grateful to myself for listening to audio of Eckhart Tolle reading his book, The Power of Now. This helped meet my need for inner peace.
- I'm grateful to myself for snapping photos for inclusion in this blog entry. Doing so helped meet my needs for awareness and celebration.
- I'm grateful to myself for staying current with my blog. Doing so helped meet my need for efficiency.
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts. This helped meet my needs for collaboration and growth.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Wednesday, 12 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- waking up to Dad's calls
- getting Dad water to drink
- shaving and showering
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- preparing prescriptions for Dad
- driving Dad to Outpatient Rehab
- homeschooling with Aliana, emphasizing reading, math, music and human anatomy
- shopping for groceries
- getting gas, checking oil
- picking up prescriptions
- cleaning the kitchen
- doing laundry
- catnapping
- helping Dad walk many times
- helping Dad walk for exercise
- drinking coffee
- chatting with Cherita including about websites
- sitting with Aliana, emphasizing computer learning
- viewing the class discussing Chapter 2 of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle, with the class presented by Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle
- preparing yesterday's blog entry, including a Worldview Elaboration: Distinguishing Praise and Appreciation
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
Today qualified as another, very full day for me.
Worldview Elaboration: "Should" and "Enough"
I don't like the word "should." In my mind's ear (before I put on more empathetic ears), "should" suggests duty, obligation, a denial of choice and even a denial of responsibility. By my standards, contrary to many prevalent assumptions, "should" and authentic responsibility mutually exclude each other.
Long before I developed my current philosophy on the subject, it struck me how much I hated it when, in trying to persuade me to do something, others would tell me, "You should do this."
Now I feel far more satisfied with my explanation of why I reacted that way.
By my standards, "should," like reward, remains (often implicitly) part of the domination matrix of concepts. When I vividly appreciate the need-satisfying, life-serving, self-fulfilling reasons why I want to take an action, I don't need to "should" myself to choose to take that action.
For me, "should" comes out of the authoritarian toolbox. As I hear it, "should" involves an (often implicitly) authoritarian attempt to manipulate another - or even oneself - to satisfy the wishes of some "authority." "Should" aims to keep the target of the manipulation unaware of that target's own, authentic needs. Instead, "should" aims to keep the target of the manipulation focused on a sense of duty and obligation to do what the "authority" demands.
I love how Marshall Rosenberg often says (I'm quoting this from memory), "Those who remain clearly aware of their own feelings and needs don't make good slaves."
Frequently, when I'm told that I "should" do something, inwardly and initially, I react with defensiveness or even rebellion. I had reacted this way even before I learned about what I now regard as the authoritarian implications of "should." (With a deep breath and careful reflection, I now like to choose a different strategy for responding to that "should." I bring up my initial reaction for a reason, though, which follows.) Such a "should" doesn't meet my need for autonomy.
So I would not want to tell a person that one "should" feel or do anything.
(It intrigues me how much we're taught that we "should" or "shouldn't" feel this or that. By my standards, our authentic feelings require no special "justification." At any given moment, we feel what we feel.)
I react to the word "enough" in much the same way that I react to the word "should." In my mind's ear, "enough" typically implies that "Some authority dictates what should be 'enough.'" I'm not epecially interested in what's "enough" according to some explicitly or implicitly authoritarian standard. I am especially interested in what meets each person's authentic needs.
By my standards,
"should" and
"enough" qualify as species of moralistic value judgment. I find that what I call life-serving value judgment far more deeply serves my needs.
In my view, each of us embodies a need to contribute to others. Of course, I don't mean this in any sacrificial sense. I only want individuals to contribute to the well-being of others when by doing so they contribute to the satisfaction of their own needs.
In my judgment, opportunities abound to contribute to life by doing exactly that.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for writing about my worldview. This helped meet my needs for self-expression and progress.
- I'm grateful to myself for staying current with my blog.
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Tuesday, 11 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
Today qualified as another, very full day for me.
Worldview Elaboration: Distinguishing Praise and Appreciation
It seems to me that often, when I've felt torn and hesitant about expressing appreciation, without being fully aware of it, I've felt vulnerable because I'd confused the expression of appreciation with the expression of praise.
To me, every bit as much as condemnation, praise remains a form of comparative, moralistic judgment.
Both typically imply a hierarchical relationship.
If I morally condemn someone, I moralistically declare myself superior to the other. If I express praise of another, I put that other on a pedestal, declare that other superior, and often imply that I'm inferior.
So I've found it helpful to omit praise from my expression of appreciation. Then I can express my gratitude without implying that either person is inferior.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for writing about my worldview. This helped meet my needs for self-expression and progress.
- I'm grateful to myself for staying current with my blog.
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Monday, 10 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- spending time with Cherita
- shaving and showering
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- preparing prescriptions for Dad
- drinking coffee
- eating breakfast
- hanging out with Aliana while she made funny faces
- chatting with Cherita
- writing about my worldview
- catnapping
- driving Dad to Outpatient Rehab
- homeschooling with Aliana, emphasizing reading
- helping Dad walk many times
- driving to church
- attending the next session of the Enlightenment class (part of The History of Christianity, with emphasis on intellectual history) at Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist (CCUU); today's session focused on Hume; I assisted with the playing of the DVDs
- preparing yesterday's blog entry
Playful Reflections (Text)
Impression of the Day
Today qualified as another, very full day for me.
Worldview Elaboration: "Abnormal" Limitations
Living beings of all kinds can be born with extreme limitations far outside what we might call the normal range.
A person could be born blind, for example.
Alternatively, a person could be born with either neurological and/or genetic limitations that prevented such a person from developing anything close to what we might call a normal level of empathic awareness of others.
Such a lack could lead to profoundly harmful and tragic consequences, such as the person experiencing no hesitation about attempting to meet one's own needs while doing violence to others - exhibiting what some would describe as sociopathic behavior.
Even so, in my view, that person's fundamental, authentic needs would remain the same as anyone else's. The person's equipment for fulfilling such needs would leave that person with profoundly limited power for meeting them, though. Such a person might well put into practice strategies that would be unlikely to optimally meet one's own or others' needs.
In relation to such a person, others might support their need for safety with the protective use of force.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for writing about my worldview. This helped meet my needs for self-expression and progress.
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Sunday, 09 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- weighing and measuring
- shaving and showering
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- preparing prescriptions for Dad
- drinking coffee
- eating breakfast
- driving to church
- facilitating the Open Forum Discussion of the topic, "Game Theory and Politics Today"
- attending the worship service
- catnapping
- homeschooling with Aliana, emphasizing reading of The Wizard of Oz on my Palm Tungsten T3 handheld computer
- repairing the installation of my dictation software
- checking for updates for my dictation software
- updating my Lexicon definition of Open Forum Discussion
- browsing a friend's Facebook pages
- helping Dad walk many times
- preparing today's blog entry
- chatting and emailing with Cherita
- hanging out with Cherita and Aliana
- writing about my worldview
Playful Reflections (Text)
Today qualified as another, very full day for me.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for writing about my worldview. This helped meet my needs for self-expression and progress.
- I'm grateful to myself for catching up on my prior three days' worth of blogs yesterday... plus yesterday's... and today's!
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Sunday, 09 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- preparing breakfast for Dad
- doing housework
- suffering from a stress and tension headache
- taking aspirin
- catnapping
- drinking coffee
- shaving and showering
- experiencing headache relief
- homeschooling with Aliana, emphasizing spelling and her creation of a new book
- writing and sending email in an effort to find a sitter for Dad for tonight's celebration rally at church, finding none and sending our regrets to the coordinator
- helping Dad view DVD recordings about Voltaire borrowed from the person coordinating the Enlightenment class (part of The History of Christianity, with emphasis on intellectual history) at Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist (CCUU)
- helping Dad walk many times
- catching up on the prior three days' worth of blogs
- updating my Current Activities page
- eating, chatting and emailing with Cherita
Playful Reflections (Text)
Today qualified as another, very full day for me.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for catching up on my prior three days' worth of blogs today... plus today's!
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Friday, 07 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
I found today's activities draining, especially all my assistance with Dad's many transfers to and from his wheelchair, and up and down steps. I felt tired for most of the day. By early evening, I was a basket of exhaustion.
In addition, although I enjoyed the start of my reading of
No Contest: The Case Against Competition by Alfie Kohn, and although I expect to learn much from this book, I enjoyed a chuckle about it. So far, in my reading of it, Alfie Kohn expresses himself in a way that I interpret as implicitly competitive!
I say this because when he expresses his disagreements with others about competition, it seems to me that by implication, he's engaging them in an argument.
By "argument" in this context, I don't mean merely an exploration in logical terms. I mean an adversarial engagement in which - at least implicitly - one party declares oneself right and the other wrong.
I don't think that Alfie Kohn is aware of this. But it struck me as funny because here he is, making "a case against" competition - yet by my standards, he's implicitly engaging in competition!
I don't mean by any of this that I'm any less attracted to what I take to be his thesis. I take it that by his standards, competition qualifies as a far less than optimal strategy by means of which for human beings to interact with one another.
All this draws my attention to something that I've mentioned to Cherita on many occasions.
I've told her that if I never engage in another "argument," it will be too soon. I'm sick and tired of arguing. Again, by "argument" I now mean an adversarial engagement in which - at least implicitly - one party declares oneself right and the other wrong.
Because of my conviction in 1) the continuum of truth satisfaction 2) the continuum of value judgment and 3) the suboptimal quality of moralistic judgment, I vastly prefer passionately compassionate dialogue to "right-wrong" argument.
I look forward to writing more about these distinctions in the near future.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for "screaming in giraffe" at Dad while I drove to chiropractic appointments for Dad and Cherita. This helped meet my needs for authenticity, communication, progress - and for assertive expression of my own needs.
- I'm grateful to myself for reading today, which helped meet my needs for stimulation, learning and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Thursday, 06 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- feeling tired
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- homeschooling with Aliana during discussion
- audio listening to "Seminar" recordings of Nathaniel Branden, made monthly starting perhaps in 1969 and continuing through the early 1970s, which were distributed on LP records; in this series, he answered questions on many subjects including psychology and philosophy; on those sessions to which I speed-listened today, he discussed psychology, sex and romantic love
- writing and sending email, including for 1) a reader with whom I'm discussing my Worldview Summary and 2) one who recently visited church who wrote to me asking about Unitarian Universalism
- doing housework
- getting to bed earlier than last night
Playful Reflections (Text)
Following last night's late bedtime, I felt tired all day today.
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Wednesday, 05 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- driving Dad to Outpatient Rehab
- homeschooling with Aliana with emphasis on reading
- driving Aliana to the library, continuing homeschooling with the Living Books Green Eggs and Ham program
- audio listening to "Seminar" recordings of Nathaniel Branden, made monthly starting perhaps in 1969 and continuing through the early 1970s, which were distributed on LP records; in this series, he answered questions on many subjects including psychology and philosophy; on those sessions to which I speed-listened today, he discussed psychology, sex and romantic love
- finishing and posting yesterday's blog entry
- reading Ender's Game to the end...yesterday
- doing housework
- starting composition of this blog entry
- facilitating the meeting of the Membership Committee at church
- spending long overdue, quality communication time with Cherita... and losing sleep as a result
Playful Reflections (Text)
What a full and strenuous day!
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for communicating and spending time with me; lately, I've been craving more of this.
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| Tuesday, 04 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Yesterday's headache, achiness and sluggishness disappeared from me today - so I felt as if I were "myself again!"
Gratitude
- I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Monday, 03 March 2008 | As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- enduring an awful headache that lasted all day
- spending time with Aliana
- treadmilling
- reading more of Ender's Game
- homeschooling with Aliana while talking
- audio listening to "Seminar" monthly recordings of Nathaniel Branden made starting perhaps in 1969 and continuing through the early 1970s and then distributed on LP records, in which he answered questions on many subjects including psychology and philosophy
- writing and sending email including to Cherita and to a reader who asked me a welcome question about my Worldview Summary
- attending the next session of the Enlightenment class (part of The History of Christianity, with emphasis on intellectual history) at
Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist (CCUU); today's session focused on Voltaire; I assisted with the playing of the DVDs
Playful Reflections (Text)
Today's headache, achiness and sluggishness left me feeling - as I described it to
Cherita - as if I "just wasn't myself today."
I felt as if I were struggling much of the time. Many routine tasks seemed to me burdensome.
I'm especially grateful to Cherita for all the help and support that she offered me throughout the day, particularly in responding to Dad's requests for assistance.
I'm also really grateful to the individual who wrote to me about my Worldview Summary. Our email exchange about this today really helped satisfy my needs for understanding, stimulation and learning.
Specifically, this reader and I discussed my views about living beings, including human beings, when they happen to be born with "screwed up wiring" - and how this phenomenon relates to my view that every living being acts with the aim of meeting its needs in the service of life.
This reader asked me another tough question about competition which I've been pondering (and which relates to issues I've been reflecting on for some time), and which I'm eager to further discuss with her.
This dialogue stimulates hope in me that in the near future, via intellectual discussion, I will meet my needs for self-expression, progress and learning. In recent months, I've been feeling some distress that I've not managed to meet such needs as much as I would prefer.
I'm looking forward to engaging in more dialogue with this reader about this and other matters of mutual interest.
Gratitude
- I'm especially grateful today to Cherita for her help caring for Dad, doing housework, and for expressing concern about my headache.
- I'm especially grateful today to the person who recently read and sent me a question about my Worldview Summary. This helped me meet my needs for self-expression, understanding and dialogue.
- I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
- I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
- I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
- I'm grateful to Rem Stokes for leading the History of Christianity series at CCUU which now focuses on The Age of Enlightenment and which is really helping contribute to my learning.
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| Sunday, 02 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- driving Aliana and Cherita to church
- facilitating and moderating for the Open Forum Discussion current issues discussion group (which meets weekly)
- making special, morning announcements before the worship service
- spending time with Aliana
- facilitating a discussion about youth membership
- participating in the Coming of Age meeting (Cherita and I serve this year as mentors)
- driving to the pharmacy
- reading more of Ender's Game
- homeschooling with Aliana while talking
- audio listening
- writing and sending email
- attending the meeting of the Communicating Compassionately Covenant Group (which meets monthly)
Playful Reflections (Text)
Today was again crazily busy for me. Again, I'd like to take some time to slow down.
Gratitude
I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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| Sunday, 02 March 2008 | Playful Actions (Photos)
As background for the following, I invite you to read my
and, if you're especially ambitious, my
Playful Actions (Text Summary)
- reading more of Ender's Game
- helping Dad get up in the morning
- helping Dad dress
- online, chatting via text with a friend
- bringing Dad to his haircut appointment
- grocery shopping
- homeschooling with Aliana while shopping, with a focus on reading
- audio listening
- doing housework galore
- planning our church trip
Playful Reflections (Text)
Today was crazily busy for me. I'd like to take some time to slow down.
Gratitude
I'm grateful to myself for completing all the forms of housework that I did today. This helped meet my needs for order and progress.
I'm grateful to Aliana for giving me an opportunity to contribute with our homeschooling efforts.
I'm grateful to Cherita and Aliana for their companionship and communication.
I'm grateful to Cherita for her productive,
professional work and economic support.
I'm grateful to Cherita for her help developing my website.
I'm grateful to Cherita for her help caring for Dad.
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