Gut feelings
I'm really ambivalent about the concept of gut feelings. Personally, I hardly ever 'just know' anything, arriving instead at most of my conclusions after long periods of careful deliberation. Keep reading →
Proverbs 31:10-31
I have a (not uncomplicated) soft spot for the woman in proverbs 31. I wish the first verse wasn’t concerned in any way with ‘pricing’ her and I wish the second verse didn’t leave her husband’s virtue resting so firmly on her shoulders. Keep reading →
Functions of bloggery
Perhaps because I have been neglecting my own while enjoying other people's, blogs are on my mind lately. One of the main psychological functions a blog performs, I think, is to create an impression of a cohesive sort of life - one in which all the different parts, radically disparate as they seem and feel, are contained and owned and thought of as part of a well-integrated self. Keep reading →
Blogs
I like reading blogs and I have three I am particularly fond of reading, for all different reasons. Even though I've never met any of these people in person, I think of them almost as friends because I read their thoughts on a wide range of things so regularly. Keep reading →
B-grade day
Today has been a bit of a B-grade day. I was thinking about that and wondering how B-grade is actually defined, but even my usual A-grade definition seeking tool (google define) has turned out to be B-grade, offering only a wikipedia definition for a B-grade film, as follows: Keep reading →
Dancing
"When dancing: 1. Never try to step with the foot on which you are standing, 2. Never try to turn on a foot on which you are not standing, and Keep reading →
Different people in different places
This semester my teaching load includes five different tutorial groups. One group contributes so much and so enthusiastically that they tend to talk over each other and sometimes the whole thing can become more of an exercise in crowd control than anything else. Keep reading →
Ceres tomorrow
I am looking forward to tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Some very lovely friends of mine who make beautiful things, often out of felt, are going to be having a stall at Ceres market to raise funds for a local school teacher who is going to Uganda Keep reading →
Inner voices
The self help industry is very keen on having us monitor our inner voices. We are supposed to replace our silent loops of discouragement and criticism with messages that are uplifting and encouraging. Since I have taken lately to waking up at 4.30 every morning Keep reading →
Gosh
According to Freud, 'A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.' Keep reading →
