This photo, taken at the lake near sunset. The wind was playing with the reflection of some trees on the other side of the cove. I didn't expect the camera to capture the color and light in this way, but I'm glad it did.
Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
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Dear Rebecca,
what a beautiful picture you painted with your camera! Or perhaps I should rather say: With your eye, by being aware of this wonderful and interesting structure!
Waht you wrote in your blog of 12/14, that you love teaching but that it is difficult for you to be among people: I could sign that! I suppose that's why I became a teacher (at least that's one of the reasons, to learn better to be among poeple, to be "on the presentation plate" (auf dem Präsentierteller), as we say in German - in the 30 years of being a teacher I had ample opportunitiy for learning things. That's what we are on earth for, to learn new things, aren't we? So we sometimes bring us into situations where we have to learn something which is not so easy - like me beoming a teacher, like you creating this blog and thus pushing yourself into the situation of having to write every day (which you have done with an admirable consistency!!)
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's blog entry!
Have a nice day!
Ludger
Hello, Ludger, and thank you for these good words!
The light and/or my eye seems to be changing this month--I'm getting some results with my camera that I haven't really gotten before. I'm not going to over-think the "why" of it, but I'm going to enjoy each surprise as it comes.
I love the expression "on the presentation plate"--it's something I seem to need ever more practice with. Happily, when I'm immersed with the students in ideas the self-consciousness goes away and the joy is great. But in other venues it's harder to keep the self-consciousness at bay. Like you said, though, we're here to learn, and I suppose this is going to be a life-long lesson for me. Funny which lessons get set for each of us....
Hoping you had a good weekend!
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