Time Zones & Miracles

Mary Rose O'Reilley writes, "If you are in the right mental time zone, miracles happen. Humans operate in two time zones at once... clock time and high time.  This is an idea that obsessed St. Augustine... as well as any first grader who is trying to get to school before the bell rings while also paying attention to the single once-in-a-moment descent of the swallow tail onto a tea rose devoid of smell" (The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology (154).  http://www.amazon.com/The-Love-Impermanent-Things-Threshold/dp/1571313125/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398747746&sr=8-1&keywords=love+of+impermanent+things .

Sir Ken Robinson TED Talk video link

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

Audre Lorde & Mike Rose Readings Links: click on the links below:

Here’s the link, which should take you there: http://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Audre-LORDE-Zami-A-New-Spelling-of-My-Name...-Sister-Outsider...-Undersong-Chosen-Poems-Old-and-New.pdf .  Remember, you don’t have to read the entire document, just the part mentioned on the schedule (Chapter 3 from Zami , pages 21 – 31). 

And here's the link to the Mike Rose reading, "I Just Wanna be Average":  http://userwww.sfsu.edu/mmartin/rose.pdf .  Enjoy!