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2-18 What is Your Totem Animal? EXTRA CREDIT FOR COMING IN FULL LONGORN REGALIA, OR AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN

this window was over the main entrance of the original Main Building

our class pretending to worship Bevo here

 

Bevo in front of the new Main Building after the 2005 National Championship

 

RUNNING OF THE HORNS up Congress, changing into hybrids, and into the Stadium

 

 

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Dobie's The Longhorns

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our tribal totem, the longhorn

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW1dNp9d-AA Ft. Worth longhorn drive

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsVdtb428k

Our son, Tex + Bob, Bumpers the pig, Zoe the donkey at Pied Beauty Ranch

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWIVi_Oa4as&feature=player_embedded   Natasha Bedingfield - Wild Horses

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Dobie's The Mustangs

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TODAY'S GOALS:[2A2b] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination,which is essential to morality and ethics. Trying to imagine what it was like to be someone else is a form of experiential learning, the kind that can stick with you later. All of this depends on your willingness to be an actor, to willingly suspend your disbelief long enough to play the part. That willingness also enables you to FREE yourself from the world views that you may have inherited without conscious thought or decision on your part.* Trying out the worldviews of other cultures is the humanities equivalent of a scientific experiment. When you adopt, however briefly, another Weltanshauung, and see and feel as a member of that culture would, you test out whether any part of that philosophy of life is one you want to adopt and/or, by contrast, what part of the worldivew you inherited you may consciously want to embrace as an adult.

*William Blake called them your "mind-forged manacles"

 

[2A2c] To practice tolerance for diversity for personality types and races/ethnic groups (African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native-Americans our prime examples), thereby advancing the goals of the  Multicultural Perspectives and Diversity required flag courses [2C].

 

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TODAY'S TOPICS: What does it mean to be a longhorn?

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:Einstein, Dass, "Best and Worst" for SECOND half of alphabet   Quiz on Dobie introduction as well as his writings,  BLOG DISCUSSION

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

 

RUNNING OF THE HORNS

• Dobie introduction …………………………………………………..990-994
• J. Frank Dobie, The Longhorns ………………..………………995-1012
• Longhorns  Our  Totem  Animal?  …………………………………1013
• Longhorns at U.T. ……………………………………………………1014-1019
• J.  Frank  Dobie,  The  Mustangs…………………………………1020-1038
• Mustangs  statue……………………………………………………1039-1041
• The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry………………………1042-1043
• Texas Longhorn: origins………………………………………….1044-1046
• Learning from Longhorns…………………………………………….1047-1054

 

 

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REVIEW:

Black Elk Speaks ....................................................... 928-956

Vizenor introduction...................................................957-959

Vizenor, "Squirrel" ......................................................960-964

Totemism and Power Animals, some definitions……….965-968

Animal  Speak……………………………………………………969-979

Animal Guides.....................................................................980-983

Power Animals contents…………………........984-985

Animal Guides table  of  contents………………………………986

PowerAnimals in Ultima, Potter, Black Elk ..........................987-989

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RECOMMENDED READING: anything about the Texas myth and our totem animals

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: compare your experience of a power or spirit animal with your experience of the longhorns as your totem animal