Archives for October 2011
Challenging Static Patriarchal Ways
I received an invitation to attend a lecture session at Trent University by a Rosemary Ganley the other day. The theme of the lecture series has to do with following in the way of Margaret Lawrence in her hope to bring attention to the importance of embracing more feminist theisms and seeing the limitation of patriarchal ideologies. [...]
Can we Make Ourselves Change?
I am right now taking a course to become an English language teacher in Berlin. It is a one month long program and it is very intense , difficult and cerebral work. I am expected to go through eight practice session with learners who I do not know while being assessed and observed by five [...]
Berlin
I am in Berlin right now and I am enrolled in and taking an English as a second language teacher training course. I wonder how I got here because it is quite an intense training. It has been three solid and long days of training . i was teaching a class of intermediate English speakers on [...]
In Morrisburg in Halle
Iris and I went for a fall walk yesterday. Fall here is similar to Canada in some ways There are many maple trees and colours are turning red and yellow
Awareness or Not
It is quite a different way to live to be conscious. I was reading Alice Miller today who was an accomplished psycho analyst and author. She wrote the book “Thou Shall Not Be Aware”. She implies that parents and in general people and even renowned analysts and authors of the subject are often not aware. This [...]
Depression or Something Else
I am an avid reader and indulge myself with many insping and creative artists and writers who are and were greatly reflective and who struggled with life, with eccentricity, depression and health. A few of my favorites are Ranier Maria Rilke and Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Pablo Neruda, Alice Miller and Walt Whitman. There are many more [...]
