by rjacksonpaton | Aug 14, 2015 | connections, readings, writing
as i attempt to be ready to publish this site, i am aware that it’s not perfect, yet. a friend and colleague posted on facebook the other day that the root of perfect being perfectus, actually means whole, rather than what we’ve come to associate perfect...
by bwitt | Jun 16, 2015 | connections, en/gendering embodiment, readings
i really love synchronicities! they are connection and relationship! and they are touching (pun intended!) i had several internet windows open that i’d been meaning to look at, and finally did so. first, the body is not an apology with an article that somehow...
by rjacksonpaton | Feb 3, 2015 | connections, ethnoautobiography, readings
the fantastic blog brainpickings posted about Emerson last week, and the quote took my breath away… thanks Emerson and brainpickings!
by rjacksonpaton | Feb 3, 2015 | en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, readings
i’ve been reading an article in Psychology Today, and it has bearing on all kinds of unsettling work, both personal AND also social and cultural, too: ‘It’s an axiom of psychology that we are some recombination of all of our yesterdays. To move forward...
by rjacksonpaton | Jan 23, 2015 | en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, readings
the other day i read two articles in the NY Times magazine that were something of review essays about film, tv and books in popular culture. they struck me for a few reasons: first, my work of being unsettled is about breaking down the barriers that i’ve been...
by rjacksonpaton | Dec 23, 2014 | ethnoautobiography, readings, vulnerable ecology, writing
looking back over my sporadic postings, i pleasantly remember writing ‘playing in the wild’ just about one season ago, at the autumnal equinox. that seems fitting as i prepare to put together some further musings about an apparent explosion about things...