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July 28th, 2016
Facebook Politics, Bobolinks, and Grace
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 07/28/2016 - 06:08I pause from my studies
of the Dark Night of the Soul
and find a friend
has posted,
“Sorry I’m not on Facebook
much right now,
I need to do things
that don’t fill me
with anger and despair.”
So I shared with her
a picture of a bobolink
and a poem
of how the prairie smells
after a summer rain
and thought about
this week’s lesson.
“One's life does not consist
in the abundance of possessions”
despite what the commercials say.
The politicians’ promise
leads to
“anger, wrath, malice, slander,
and abusive language“
For them, there are still
“slave and free”,
those who help them gain riches
and others who obstruct them.
My friend writes,
“Sorry I’m not on Facebook
much right now,
I need to do things
that don’t fill me
with anger and despair.”
“But you are needed”,
I tell her
to remind all of us
“The Moon Cannot be Stolen”.
July 25th
Camino de Pokemon Go
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 07/25/2016 - 06:15It is the Feast of St. James. I am back from vacation. Through a minor mishap, I was even more disconnected over the past week than I intended to be. Give all the bad news of last week, perhaps that isn’t so bad, but now I have so much to catch up on.
Yesterday, before heading home, I went to The Chapel of St. James the Fisherman in Wellfleet. Today, I read a little more about the Camino de Sanitago. In A Medieval Pilgrimage in Modern Times, Rick Steves writes about the pilgrims,
They seem very centered, content with the experience, and tuned in to the important things in life...like taking time to talk with others.
It made me think of people playing Pokemon Go. There is so much more I want to write about St. James, about Pokemon Go, about #CLMooc. There is so much more time I want to take talking to others. There is so much more that I need to get done to dig out from this vacation. Yet I need time to get it all processed and written.
Another quote about the Camino comes to mind. Liza Gere wrote on Google Plus,
The camino provides. This is a theme I learned on my first journey on the Camino de Santiago. You find very quickly that your needs are covered and most times in miraculous and unexpected ways. So as I have been gearing up to leave there has been one…
Buen Camino
July 24th
#CLMOOC - Found PLN
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 07/24/2016 - 20:22”Sometimes,
the voice of the world”
is an
”Epic Night! Featuring Rufus Wainwright + 1500 Singers [who] sing HALLELUJAH!”
and being
a LIVE node on the network
as we Reciprocate with Gratitude and Generosity.
From Jacques du Toit,
via Aaron Davis,
I discover my Personal learning network
something I didn’t even know I had,
something I grow and nuture
through CLMooc.
What if
each of us reached out to a few (five?) unconnected nodes and connected up with them,
perhaps through poem, song, or
Escargot Mail (Without the Garlic)?
July 15th
Vacation, #CLMOOC, #PokemonGo, #TinyHouses and more...
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 07/15/2016 - 17:06When I get busy, I typically leave windows open on my computer; webpages I want to bookmark or write about, documents I haven’t finished and will save later. Ongoing conversations in instant messenger programs, and so on. Eventually, it gets to the point where I just have to close out everything I’m working. Sometimes it is because things stop working. Sometimes it is simply because I need to tie things up. Today, it was a little bit of both.
I am starting vacation and I want to have as clean a slate as possible. There was a lot to close out, because it has been a particularly challenging week, mostly because of #CLMOOC starting and because of Pokemon Go.
I’ve saved all kinds of thoughts and links in various documents, and some of this needs to come together into a blog post. First #CLMOOC
The starting point for CLMOOC is this page. It isn’t too late to join in. One way of joining in is to simply jump in. CLMOOC is divided into Make Cycles. The first Make Cycle is around getting to know one another. Make Cycle #1: Make with Me: Who Are We?
An important part of CLMooc is the connections, reusing and mashing up content. Some of the posts that jumped out at me, not in any particular order, included Ronald Rudolf’s variation on Jennifer’s Poem, RON LEUNISSEN’s reuse of art-cards, Jeffrey Keefer mind map in Who Am I? A CLMOOC UnIntroduction (which inspired some of my writing this past week), Sarah Honeychurch’s Who am I this month? and Deanna Mascle’s<./a> Notable Notes: Exploring Identity with/in #CLMOOC. For those exploring mapping, Deanna’s post points to one of Jeffrey Keefer’s post, one of my posts, and several others. I also want to highlight Kevin Hodgson’s poem about vocal harmony in a world of so much disharmony in the world around us.
Deanna’s comments about my post hit on another big topic for me this week, Pokemon. She provided a link to two great articles, 14 reasons #PokemonGO has a future in education; or, Why #PokemonGO deserves the thoughtful, creative, attention of schools and teachers and Pokémon Go Has Created a New Kind of Flâneur
Another really important article, I thought, was Ezra Klein’s Pokémon Go isn’t a fad. It’s a beginning.
Meanwhile, at work, we’ve been talking a lot about Pokemon. In a blog post, Pokémon Go: In, Near, and Around the Health Center, in Mark Masselli’s LinkedIn post, Pokémon Go and Community Health, in a Facebook Album, Pokemon GO at CHC, and in various news articles: PokeMon at CHC New Britain and
Pokemon Go gaming craze has players getting outside to find Pikachu.
So now, I’m heading off to vacation. I’ll see what is available for Pokemon on Cape Cod. I’ll stop at the 2nd BIG Tiny House Festival in Concord, MA on the way, and hopefully, I will get time to read, relax, and maybe even get more writing done.
July 13th
Seventy Five Windows
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 21:39Yup. That's about how many windows I had open on my PC before it crashed. Many of them came back with autorecovery when I restarted. Poetry, Pokemon, CLMooc, theology, numerous projects under way. Soon, I will get some time to tie bits and pieces of this together into blog posts, writing notes, and completed projects. For now, they will just need to percolate a little bit longer.
