Posted in 3387, 3386, 3385, 3388, 3389, 3392, 3391, 3390, 2735, 2964, story, the, my, and, 2745, 2962, 2829, General on Feb 27th, 2008 Comments Off
I’m too tired tonight to do any justice at all to this story, but I would like to note it and perhaps return to it another time.
Today in the 11:00 section of my Introduction to Literary Studies class the discussion was particularly rich and intense. At one point I was asking one student a series […]
As a postscript to “Structures and Emergence,” I offer a recent story in the New Yorker about intensive care, checklists, executives and practitioners, and a stubborn practical expert visionary. (The story is also about nearly intractable institutional and professional dysfunction, but neither of those qualifies as news or deserves more than a sad acknowledgement […]
Posted in driven, gardner, thought, young, man, emailed, mary kathryn, surviving, winter, old, music a, amazing, mind, the, music, story, link, prodigy, yr, and, General on Nov 14th, 2007 Comments Off
Gardner,
Thought you might find this 15 yr old young man’s music and mind amazing.
Mary-Kathryn at Surviving Winter emailed me the link to this story: “Driven to Music–A Prodigy at Age 15.” She was right about my response. Jay Greenberg is obviously an extraordinarily gifted young man.
There’s much to comment on here, but […]
Posted in story, number, key, link, incoming, things quite, dependent, my, the, learning richly, intervention, General on Sep 25th, 2007 Comments Off
I promise not to make all my blogs meta-blogs–but this story is too good to resist.
This morning I checked Bloglines, where I subscribe to my own blog (reassures me I’m there, don’t ask), my blog’s comments (quick way to see all the commentary), and a Technorati search on my blog’s URL that shows me incoming links. I can also […]