2021-07-27

Last updated Aug 15, 2023

“Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. ==Surrender.==”

— Rumi [This is a portion of a longer poem, as found in the first bullet, “In The Light Of Dying Stars.”]

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Lack of courage sabotages more people than lack of ability. ==Don’t beat yourself before you start.==

Math isn’t boring

The problem is that our culture does not recognize that the ==true nature of math is art.== So we teach it in a manner that would just as easily ruin any other art. … What if music education was all about notation and theory, with listening or playing only open to those who somehow persevered until college

Cather had honed her own ==love of life — that essential wellspring of creative vitality== — in childhood

Cather laments that nothing is more “fatal to the spirit of art” than the rise of what she aptly terms ==“superficial culture” ==— the commodification of art not as an instrument of aliveness but as a status symbol

The creative experience, Cather insists, is a matter of tuning into the inner feeling-tone strummed not by our cerebrations but by our ==creaturely relishment of the world.==

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. ==Art must spring out of the fullness and the richness of life.==

Sources/Rosieland - Newsletter Transfer to Miscellaneous Notes/Literature Notes/Rosieland - Literature Notes

build in growth with ==repeatability== over scalability.

What does repeatability mean in a community context?

• Great communities thrive on repeatability.
• Repeatability requires experimentation.
• The frequency of repeatability varies too.
• What works is repeatable.
• Repeatability creates flywheels.
• Repeatability is boring.
• You can create repeatability.
• You can look for repeatability too.