Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Dabhar Kaizen The root verb דָּבַר dâbhar "to speak" (Strong's #1696, x1143) gives rise to דָּבָר dâbhâr "word" (Strong's #1697, x1441) which means both the 'word' itself and its accompanying creative 'act' and takes some 85 different English words in the KJV to translate its range of meaning including 'power', 'purpose', 'book', 'provision', 'reason', 'work', 'matter', 'thing', 'cause' or 'commandment' (e.g., the 10 commandments or 10 words, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; 10:4), it could be a written report, single utterance, whole book, or prophetic message. Kaizen is a concept referring to business activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers. Kaizen (改善)（かいぜん） is the Sino-Japanese word for "improvement". Kaizen also applies to processes, such as purchasing and logistics, tha...

Geniuses In My Junk Drawer Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do... Jack Kerouac                           ...

If You Were an Imaginative Kid with Stupid Teachers… Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere. Albert Einstein  

Wow! These Ideas! Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Context Matters Life does not change if you only modify the content, your life will change if you will dare to alter the context. Santosh Kalwar

  Free Loot From An Escapee neo Liberal Artist’s Cave ...the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.      Iris Chang

Happy Path Up: Résultats   Je ne cherche pas, je trouve.  Picasso

The World Owes You A Living 2 "Come on, work, work!" This episode, the second in the World Owes You A Living Suite, leads us merrily/martially through the "good news" net of "low unemployment figures" to the front lines of commodity labor in our time. It shows how we are "trained" to obedience and conformity. US middle class a 1950s gov't initiative, Funding finding hate in the Cold War Career. Unprecedented numbers (sic) found frozen among their new fridges and freezers .

Parade o f Glimpses Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see. Elif Safak

Paths and Ladders                                                                                                                                                                                             In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. Carl Jung

Heart and Mind Amusement Arcade After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us. Charles Bukowski

Radical Implications We're in a horrendous cultural vacuum because our status-besotted education industry is geared toward producing not original thinkers but docile creatures of the system. (Salon 10/14/2009) Camille Paglia

Kibitz and Pieces The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture. Santosh Kalwar

Soul Bling Trail Mix Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? Garth Nix You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.” Tom Hiddleston

Through The Roof Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions. Ursula K. Le Guin

PLAY AND ORDER! White Rabbit was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a Bolero rip-off, and the lyrics a rearrangement of “Alice In Wonderland.” You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss. Grace Slick

 Seeker`s Speakers The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. Philip K. Dick

Or Al/ternatively

Dumpster-Diving for Free Culture Gems The only true voyage of discovery, the only really rejuvenating experience, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is. Marcel Proust

 Trick Stir “Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.” Byrd Gibbens “We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up.” Munia Khan

Even Higher Education

Deep One-Eighty When the winds of change blow, go deeper. Roy Eugene Davis

Parties And WHolies Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution. John Thune

Unconnected Dots Connecting Lots “I am fresh and unpredictable, spurning linear hierarchies to branch out in multiple directions. My manifestations are always feared by those for whom belief is all about obedience.” The Green One

Heretical Parentheticals The more truth is shook, the more it shines. Sir William Hamilton

Doubt This Entertainment

More Than Story

Concinnated Ubuntu A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are. Desmond Tutu

A Very Different Story

T hink T inkering T oday The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. Aldo Leopold

Patrolling Perimeters, Prying Parameters In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. Eric Hoffer

Red Pill Train Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. Laurence J. Peter

Daimon Mine Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Rabbit Holism The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. Cyril Connolly It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes. James Altucher

Tikkun Rhizome                       The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in art, but I'm more interested in "cause and cause" or "effect and effect" or "and and and". kevin mcpherson eckhoff  

Liminal Log I can stand at the door and pass them angels through Lightnin’ Hopkins

Deal With Wild Cards The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. Bobby Goodspeed

Beyond Good and Éveillé That erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else. H.L. Mencken 

Thought Goodies For Smart Humanist Millennials Status quos are made to be broken. Ray A. Davis

Brains Out Learn, Learn, Learn. Slavoj Zizek

Thought Dagwood Sandwich The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. R. T. Wombat

Free Radical on Sabbatical We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become. Peter Block 

Youtopaideia If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways... we need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact. Hedley Beare  Prof of Educ Melbourne 

Loafer's Curriculum Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming. David Morrissey

Leapfrogging Thule It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule. Robertson Davies

Jumping Around Toward Utopia Our children are interested in the BIG picture. That is where the deep natural learning seems to get done. It is totally opposite to everything I have ever learnt at school. Lehla Eldridge, Jump, Fall, Fly, From Schooling to Homeschooling to Unschooling

Sine Qua Non-Sequiturs I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane. Waylon Jennings

Undertones Of Overtons "Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to." Jim Jarmusch  [MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004]