22\u00a0 78%\u00a0 33%\u00a0 0mph SSW bar29.74\u00a0 windchill21\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n
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(Moon names this year from\u00a0American Colonists)<\/p>\n
Wide awake at 5AM this morning.\u00a0 Oh, man.\u00a0 I really love that.<\/p>\n
Why?\u00a0 Three things rolling around.\u00a0 First, I want to improve my use of the inquiry method, so I’m focusing on the questions I’ve created for the Asia tours today.\u00a0 At 5AM my inquiring mind wanted to know:\u00a0 what are they?\u00a0 Oh, brother.\u00a0 Then, as these things go, another, bigger task, more fun, but more work trundled itself forward:\u00a0 What ever happened to the influence of the Judaeo-Christian tradition in modern and contemporary art?\u00a0 In March I have to present a discussion on this topic to the Docent Book Club.\u00a0 What will I say, my mind wondered?\u00a0 As if I could think clearly enough at 5AM to solve this riddle.\u00a0 As I pushed it down to later in the day, when I can read and take notes, the third item leaped up to be noticed:\u00a0 Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Transcendent Unitarian.\u00a0 This is also a for March project, capsulizing transcendentalism, Emerson’s role relative to it and his influence on early Unitarianism.<\/p>\n
You might reasonably wonder why these other two projects were on my mind (in my mind?\u00a0 on top of my mind?) on January 11th, 2008.\u00a0 On February 6th, I leave for a retreat with my fellow Woolly Mammoths at the Dwelling in the Woods in northern Minnesota.\u00a0 I leave from there for Hawai’i where I will stay until February 29th.\u00a0 In my mental world that means I have a choice between finishing the Art and the Emerson projects before I leave for Hawai’i or trying to finish them as I return.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My mind keeps a project manager running at all times.\u00a0 Most of the time it works in the background, following my work, assigning priorities and evaluating progress.\u00a0 Some times it moves into the foreground, like at 5AM on January 11th.<\/p>\n
OK. OK.\u00a0 I sleepily ran through the objects:\u00a0 Jade Mountain, Shiva Nataraja, Gandhara Buddha, Mandala, Ceremonial Gate, Studio of Gratifying Discourse, Korean bronze Buddha, Amitbha Buddha. What were the questions for each one?\u00a0 I dutiful recalled them.\u00a0 When I finished, the project manager let go and slipped beneath the surface again, content to work in the background.\u00a0 I went back to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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