Comments for fly into the mystery

Comment on Shadows when the train engines cut out by Graham

Graham — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:44:30 +0000

Nice abstract image. I love photos which use shadow and light like this.

Comment on Tuesday on the Shifting Sands of Thought by Emily

Emily — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:31:52 +0000

Somerville ArtBeat! Hi!

Comment on Tuesday on the Shifting Sands of Thought by mtp

mtp — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:14:14 +0000

where do you get to roll around in bubbles?

Comment on Junot Diaz on Isolated Youth by Emily

Emily — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:57:32 +0000

That’s exactly it— and of course it would be nice to have a few more peers, or more working artists etc. but the mix of ages is really beneficial. So, winter in the city, summer at the sea?

Comment on Junot Diaz on Isolated Youth by erica

erica — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:18:09 +0000

interesting on the diversity/NY front! i never would have thought of it that way. we are literally drowning in all of our kids friends, they all have multiples and are all under 10. we are almost the only ones we know locally without kids, certainly within our closeknit group. so i feel i have a fair amount of kid contact/convos considering i don’t have kids. now that we are getting older, i guess our demographic is shifting. but we still live in a town with an OVERwhelming senior citizen population. wherever we go we bring the average age down and i that’s not a joke! the middle ones are working married peeps with kids and the few younger ones are out at bars (i assume).
interesting to think that perhaps we get more mixing up by being in a small town with such limited coffee shop choices

Comment on The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande: Book Review by Emily

Emily — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:57:01 +0000

the curse of middle management!

Comment on Junot Diaz on Isolated Youth by Emily

Emily — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:56:37 +0000

He noted that most MFA students are between 23 and 27, so I think that young as you are you might feel quite mature. Hopefully your program would have a range of people and they would all inform each other. I was feeling especially the segregation when I was in Williamsburg this weekend and everyone in the bars and restaurants was also between 23 and 27and had gone, one fears, to the same colleges…. For some reason the diversity of New York means even more segregation- in a smaller city with fewer choices, citizens have to use the same bars, coffeeshops, and grocery stores. Not so NY. How about St. Louis?

Comment on Junot Diaz on Isolated Youth by Jon

Jon — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:27:54 +0000

I’m considering going back for an MFA. I’m probably not “older” enough at this point to fall into the category you’re discussing; if I went back this year I’d only have about 10 or so years on recent graduates continuing on for the MFA. And MFAs generally have older applicants fairly regularly too, right?

ANYWAY, the point is, I wonder if, assuming that I have a decade on my classmates, would I impart my experience and knowledge on them, or would they impress their youthfulness on me? Hopefully both?

And, more specifically to your point, I can’t remember the last time I had a conversation with a child.

Comment on The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande: Book Review by Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:05:17 +0000

my boss worships this guy, we have a lot of checklists at work.

Comment on The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande: Book Review by Jessie

Jessie — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:07:16 +0000

When I worked in special collections I noticed that when formal processes become separated from their underlying logic they fall apart. Once new workers understood the purpose of the routine/checklist, it became effective once again. Lists don’t have to dumb-down professional practices. Good luck with your experiment.