OWPC Ch. 7, 3:00 to 3:15 pm, Anniversary Post #2/7. Music stirs the sacred.  “the sound was so sublime that listeners felt as though they were being carried high above the clouds” (50).  Learning involves receiving instruction, engaging in deeper reflection about the meanings of the teachings, and then acting on the new knowledge/information.  Even at a young age, Siddhartha does ethnographic research to expand his love and understanding: he walks among “the people.”  The spl

OPWC Ch. 6, Weekly Anniversary Post #1/7: Morning Stretch, Warming Up for “The Sutras, According to Effie White,”   which will be today’s culminating point. Since this longer post is emerging from a multipronged inquiry, the anticipatory scaffolding and stretching both become essential elements of the journey. This morning’s study begins with the dream of Siddhartha’s mother/other—that led to his sublime birth—which a nine-year old Siddhartha subsequently restages while sitti

Today marks 7 days-- one full week-- since Drew died. Accordingly, the writing amps up today in velocity, depth, and imagination. I'm starting earlier, with a loftier goal of 7 posts to mark each day since his passing. The first, which I'm working on right now, is one I'm EXTREMELY excited about and will likely be my most elaborate. Here's the agenda (in order of priority, though I might adjust the order of publication): The Sutras, According to Effie White (close visual anal