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So, waking up early has been something of a success. I'm going to sleep a little earlier, remembering my dreams better, and waking up easily. Sometimes, i wake up easily. Other times i have to use my entire system of alarms. Here's how i have it set up: My true alarm goes off first, jolting me into near wakefulness from a deep, if broken, sleep. i usually get up and hit the snooze, which delays for nine minutes. in the meantime, my phone has three alarms at 615 616 and 617. that usually does the trick, but if not, at 624, that alarm clock blares and boots me fully into waking more.
Writing flows better in the morning. Maybe because it's quiet, or because of the coffee, or just because my mind is as fresh as i can make it. Probably a combination of the three. But either way, its the ideal time, as far as i'm concerned. (as i write this, a little voice is reminding me that i haven't actually read any of it yet, which is true. I can tell you exactly what has happened, and give a good guess of what is to come, but i don't know if any of it is good. I get a good feeling about it. Let's just call it at that).
I was startled by the speech. Within the third paragraph, i had to smirk because i used the exact same rationale on you this morning that Kathy from Dubois used: Children have to learn that there is a system. A rhyme to the reason, if you will. And then he said that was wrong. And then i realized that i was wrong. So i kept reading. And i've been thinking it over off and on since. Not the veracity of it. I feel its truth. Just thinking.
Possibly the greatest moment i've had since reading it is the connection of two points. Theres a question for you, but i'll pose it via text. I think it will be worth discussing. But the point was that...well, let me post it.
Rich or poor, schoolchildren who face the 21st century cannot concentrate on anything for very long, they have a poor sense of time past and to come,they are mistrustful of intimacy like the children of divorce they really are (for we have divorced them from significant parental attention); they hate solitude, are cruel, materialistic, dependent, passive, violent, timid in the face of the unexpected, addicted to distraction.
The items on the list here are familiar to me. If i'm not guitly of them myself, then i've railed against them. but i never had the terms or the scope to identify the real problem.
I can't stay. But i'll elaborate as soon as i can. I'm thinking about printing copies of it and sitting my the movie theater passing them out. Do you think anyone would read it? Do you think it would make a difference? only as much as anything ever does, i suppose. the people that want to do something about it will do something about it. the others, the "well-educated" probably won't.
hallelujah, Jafar.
Writing flows better in the morning. Maybe because it's quiet, or because of the coffee, or just because my mind is as fresh as i can make it. Probably a combination of the three. But either way, its the ideal time, as far as i'm concerned. (as i write this, a little voice is reminding me that i haven't actually read any of it yet, which is true. I can tell you exactly what has happened, and give a good guess of what is to come, but i don't know if any of it is good. I get a good feeling about it. Let's just call it at that).
I was startled by the speech. Within the third paragraph, i had to smirk because i used the exact same rationale on you this morning that Kathy from Dubois used: Children have to learn that there is a system. A rhyme to the reason, if you will. And then he said that was wrong. And then i realized that i was wrong. So i kept reading. And i've been thinking it over off and on since. Not the veracity of it. I feel its truth. Just thinking.
Possibly the greatest moment i've had since reading it is the connection of two points. Theres a question for you, but i'll pose it via text. I think it will be worth discussing. But the point was that...well, let me post it.
Rich or poor, schoolchildren who face the 21st century cannot concentrate on anything for very long, they have a poor sense of time past and to come,they are mistrustful of intimacy like the children of divorce they really are (for we have divorced them from significant parental attention); they hate solitude, are cruel, materialistic, dependent, passive, violent, timid in the face of the unexpected, addicted to distraction.
The items on the list here are familiar to me. If i'm not guitly of them myself, then i've railed against them. but i never had the terms or the scope to identify the real problem.
I can't stay. But i'll elaborate as soon as i can. I'm thinking about printing copies of it and sitting my the movie theater passing them out. Do you think anyone would read it? Do you think it would make a difference? only as much as anything ever does, i suppose. the people that want to do something about it will do something about it. the others, the "well-educated" probably won't.
hallelujah, Jafar.