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OUR CLAN ANIMAL     our song?

 

our theme song

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Born free, as free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Born free to follow your heart

Live free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star

Stay free, where no walls divide you
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide

Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free

(Stay free, where no walls divide you)
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide

Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free

 

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born free -- animals

 

INSPIRATIONS

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

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Pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but  sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.

 

David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth." 
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine

 

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Dass Guided Imagery

ETHICS GOALS

[2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.”

our primary approach is the oldest: ethics guided by lovingkindness; more specifically, by three nonbinary emotions: biophilia, inner peace, joie de vivre

honi soit mottohoni soit motto[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

OTHER GOALS

honi soit motto[3C1] To unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.

3-31diversity sign  Bluest Eye, must bring book or -10:  final third, pp. 133-215; 2nd half b&w;QUIZ;  leadership sign LEADER: Armadillo

QUIZ  WILL BE ON BLUEST EYE AND 'AM I BLUE?'

460              Alice Walker intro

461-‐464    Alice Walker, "Am I Blue?"

 

 

 

 

LOOKING AHEAD:

 

  • 3-31: EXTRA CREDIT: 7 PM  JOYNES READING ROOM  (WATCH FOR ROOM CHANGE)  10 pts. if I see you there, up to 27 more for an extra credit blog   WILL POTTER  (YOU SAW HIM IN COWSPIRACY!) author of Green in the New Red: how non-violent animal rights and environmental protesters came to be classified by the FBI as "eco-terrorists."

  • 4-3 EXTRA CREDIT HOLI? LBJ lawn  1-4 

  • 4-5 I'm a bacha posh must bring book or -10: first half (first five chapters);' ; pairs b&w; QUIZ;LEADER: BUNNY? APRIL BIRTHDAY: Black Leopard (4/1)

4-6 EXTRA CREDIT 8 points for proof of interaction with animals; Cow on Campus! 4-7 P3 and P4 

  • 4-10   11 AM: Taniguchi garden;

4-12     I'm a bacha posh must bring book or -10: second half:  GRIZZLY BEAR?  4-14    Fun Home 1; must bring book or -10: 2nd half b&w;QUIZ; LEADER: CARPENTER BEE?        4-16  Project Four due online 4-18 P3 Word Choice Revisions due: must be done on the Word version already edited by me: put changes in new comments in that document, save it with a new name beginning with "P3W"

 


honi soit motto

Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, once wrote, "to allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

More than that, it is cooperation with violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his work for peace. It destroys her own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful."

One interpretation: The fear of failure and the need to get things done create this downward spiral of the spirit. To break this "circle of violence" we must step back, reflect, meditate. While at rest we may be able to see things anew, which will increase our "fruitfulness at work" and at home.

honi soit motto

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