• Regard the Definition of Learning

    Introduction Perhaps much of what produces conflicting perspectives on learning stems from conflating training with teaching and reacting with understanding. Furthermore, perhaps this conflation reflects an unreasonable dismissal of the phenomenon we refer to as consciousness simply because it is such a difficult, abstract concept to describe, and harder still to quantify. Such a response…

  • Small matters.

    Small matters.

    So, a couple years ago I sprinkled about a single seed pod from the most needed species of milkweed in our region into what I now refer to as my butterfly garden. It looks so trashy at the moment that the name would seem a delusional misnomer. There’s a pot laying in it that I…