Peace Resistance You desire that I engage in discussion concerning the relative value of War You wonder why I resist The only wars having merit are the ones too seldom fought When do we fight hunger and disease bigotry and ignorance neglect and greed? Fighting these doesn’t require armed conflict but rather the engagement the minds and hearts the imagination and cooperation of good people Will we never try? –Robyn Elaine Serven –March 20, 2008

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Breaking Dawn Songs that voices seldom share Does it matter if you hear me When the morning comes I’ll be there by your side –Harry Nilsson Can you hear me? Does it matter if words adapt to three-part harmony? Are you waking? Will you stop here to share yourself so everyone can see? And in the morning when I am here I may be spreading a good thought And sometime later when you stop by will anything of substance have been taught? Can you hear me? Does it matter? –Robyn Elaine Serven –March 18, 2008

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Lurking Blueprint A notion and intention initially Ideas congeal words emerge slide into place some locked some fit to be tumbled pliantly capable of movement until unity forms Structural collapse conceptual disintigration and verbal desertion are neighbors skulking on the other side of walls too thin –Robyn Elaine Serven –March 18, 2008

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The Lure of the Gold Entitlement Shouldn’t entitlement be an increasing function? Should not our children be entitled to more freedom liberty, joy and happiness than we were? Shouldn’t their children if they have any deserve still more? Or do you speak of material things? Do you look to me as the reason you don’t have more? –Robyn Elaine Serven –March 14, 2008

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It always takes a few days to turn the switch.

There are still teaching things to attend to over the summer, some of which will be fairly onerous, like building an evaluation instrument for one of our computer literacy classes, a mechanism by which students can test out of the course.  Our students do not come from the burbs, for the most part.  They are what is euphemistically now called “urban.”  Inner-city New Jersey.  They do not generally come complete with computer skills beyond texting and MySpace/Facebook.  Email is a foreign substance, except that you have to have an email address to sign up for things.  I just got half of the gig to build a fair assessment instrument for $1000.

And I maybe need to design a Special Topics class for fall (unless it gets canceled for lack of enrollment) .  The topic is Internet Support Tools.  I may be bugging the shit out of some of you because the topic is blogs, wikis, widgets, RSS feeds, etc.  I suppose I’ll need to learn some stuff myself so I can teach it.  Maybe we can figure out a way for my students to wander around behind the scenes of Docudharma for a bit. 🙂

But that’s the me who is a teacher.  Summer is the time for working on grand ideas…my life’s work, so to speak…for weaving the next layer on the tapestry.  

And for that I have to go…

Pooling Absolutely Nothing War Huh!  Good God, y’all! What is it good for? War is good for making the rich richer those mongers who profit from human suffering and tragedy It matters not if they benefit from victory by one side or the other only that War continue somewhere forever And War is good for spreading that suffering and tragedy along with hatred death and the disintegration of human society What more could anyone want? –Robyn Elaine Serven –March 13, 2008

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At the Nub Truth Stripped of pretense scraped down to the nub bathed in the acid of reality Truth is coated by no varnish No twisting spinning bending stretching can alter it Truth is inviolate but there are many pretenders –Robyn Elaine Serven –March 12, 2008

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Broken Dreams Self-absorption I’ve seen your claims that you desire a better world Why is changing your behavior not a footstep along that path? –Robyn Elaine Serven –March 9, 2008

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Spectacle Speculation One day maybe the world will be as I envision it But that will be in some far distant day to come and this is now It is improbable that I will see and experience my vision Change occurs too slowly or perhaps aging occurs too fast –Robyn Elaine Serven –March 9, 2008

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Pathway Life Stories What would you tell the protagonist of your story to do if you could? Why aren’t you living your life so that those events could happen? The deeper question: Am I? –Robyn Elaine Serven –March 7, 2008

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