Fredrich Foebel Is my Homeboy

Who invented kindergarten was a napoleonic war vet, crystalographer, and a teacher of abstracts thru spiritual mechanisms?

 "Pestalozzi takes man existing only in appearance on earth, but I take man in his eternal being, in his eternal existence."

Did you know that crotching coral reefs helped the understanding of hyperbolic space?  This is how I was reminded of Fred!

 

 Froebel's philosophy of education rested on four basic ideas: free self expression, creativity, social participation, and motor expression.

"The world of crystals proclaimed to me in distinct and unequivocal terms the laws of human life."

"What the spiritual eye sees inwardly in the world of thought and mind, it sees outwardly in the world of crystals."

"Man in his external manifestation, like the crystal, bearing within himself the living unity, shows at first more one-sidedness, individuality, and incompleteness, and only at a later period rises to all-sidedness, harmony, and completeness."

Forms of Knowledge
mathematical and logical ideas such as number, proportion, equivalence and order. These ideas serve to define natural divisions of a gift and to suggest ways of rearranging or transforming these parts.
Forms of Life
represent things that can be seen in the outside world . . . buildings, house, table, sofa, tree, etc.
Forms of Beauty
blocks arranged on a grid without stacking to have some kind of symmetry, to form patterns viewed as ornament

He's my homeboy, because he is an interconnectivist. 

Yeah!

Band dabbling

I like the two bands I am in right now. It makes me excited.


Sanskrit harps tablas and sitar? Yes please:




Lady power of the plugged in and drumming persuation? Methinks yes!





How could I hold it against people who are bewildered?

I am a set

I am a set
This weekend, I did a course caled
The Art of Collaborative Leadership
and something clicked in my interconnectivist mind.
The day it was over, I realized this:

Because I had started watching this:



When a fellow who knows Art of Hosting (the people whom I took my workshop with) compadres mentioned in his beautiful video the glory of fractals, and who is himself a  Kaos pilots.

complexifying & simplifying from Benjamin Aaron Degenhart on Vimeo.

Something in my mind has clicked.

I feel at home in my

Chaordic Path.

And I am quite happy.

Matters of Love

Rant Style

How does Julia feel?
Sometimes I don't know.
It takes me a long while to feel.
especially if something is a lil' awkward or unknown
or I am gauging other people's feelings over my own.








ENTP-style
"In the ENTP, the lack of a well developed Feeling Function means that they must learn to “understand” feeling in both themselves and others and come to terms with its affects. This understanding can only come from thinking carefully about the ways feeling affects not only themselves, but others, and the importance others place on this function. The ENTP has a feeling function more or less global in character and one which does not judge fine differences. This inability to discriminate feelings can allow the ENTP to say and do much that leaves others in the cold, so an effort to think about the feeling process can be essential. "

(Well, Julia feels as such:) 
That is the essence of a good ol' fashioned Julia rant.
This is how I figure out my non-linear "ohshitIactuallyhavefeelings" feelings.
This is an old tradition of mine.
Especially I used to send these to my muses: Shean Higgins, Andrew Bateman etc.
Here is a brief disclaimer: Unlike hand-written letters, I don't expect people to read these rants. These are mostly journals when I am not certain how I feel. They do not ever involve a backspace and are a means of me holding my own thoughts transparent and accountable in thataway. By allowing them to flow. Julia rants are a time when I let myself pretend there is no time line or a need to draw connections or continium
I do not hold myself accountable in them, and not everything has hefty merit
but this does not mean it is meaningless

This journal is rant-central.

But my body is not a cage
and nor is language.
It won't keep me.

Wordle o' Love