On school resources

 First, a while back I was surprised to hear that schools pay police as school resource officers. Seriously, I thought it a cruel joke.  On somber reflection, it sounds right for some situations as a community can determine for themselves. Still it is a sad set of affairs and not one we should come to expect.

I do think in the face of  a global pandemic we should afford resources for providing school health resource officers.  Yeah - bring back nurses in schools. 

If we want to prevent additional suffering and lost of lives  in this pandemic, we can do that with school health resource officers in schools.  There are a list of important duties this role would hold. For one follow the history of the polio pandemic in America and the part that schools played in reducing the paralysis of polio.  And the role they can play in making sure students have other vaccinations.  And the thousand other smaller things nurses do like check temps, calling for help when needed, conducting eyesight test, etc.  

On change across time

 First, an environment with two alleles in competition, one at 10 percent, the other at 90 percent will swap  relative percentages if the population having 10 percent increases its efficiency by 10 percent per generation.[1] Now the relative speed of change between populations in a system of systems depends on the time span of the generation. 

Generation upon generation, the overlap of one cycle in another has rate with relative change to a common time base.  For example, consider the days of a week, the weeks in a year, the seasons in a year, and the rate of change for two populations, where the population having 10 percent is spawning a new generation every day versus every year. 

Thomas J Watson Sr  said: To increase your number of successes you have to increase your failure rate.”   Thought another way: to increase your success rate then decrease your failure number.  To increase your success rate pay attention to the individual failures, and celebrate the successes!

1. Wilson, E. O., & Kaspari, D. C. (2019). Genesis: The deep origin of societies. Pp 44 - 47.

On exhilaration

 First, the complete unknown of the situation was exhilarating in ways I later came to appreciate. I came to a point where the day was the day, and yes it was new and yes there were different choices available. Yes, mistakes may occur.  It came on a moment when I reasoned about forfeiting to not now. It came on a moment when faith in the future was fanciful. And it abided at the edges of many starts and even some finish lines.

It caught me at the most when I tried to trap it. I felt the wildest wilderness when I came just to watch it as what it was.

The exhilaration was sustaining, as much as what some might call anxiety. If the anxiety about the universe can vibrate in a moment, then why not exhilaration?

On is it

 First, the question “Is it?” is a question of existence. The form of the question may follow  the lead of other important questioning forms, as in “How is it?”or “When is it?”.

There is a familiarity to it, unless a question of “What is it?” is asked. There is a familiarity to it in time unless a question of “When is it?” Is asked.  Or maybe a “How is it?” if one is surprised by the appearance of it, or simply interested in it. 

On ideas

 First, ideas are a fundamental part of community creation, stasis, recreation. A lack of ideas or ideas of a type that limit other ideas can be fundamental to a community too.  Ideas are processes. Processes have outcomes. Processes are not places, but periods of time.

 In some cases:Ideas lead to actions that support those ideas - ideas about the importance of teaching and learning lead to acts of teaching and learning.  In other cases: Ideas lead to actions that discount the importance of other ideas - ideas about the importance of teaching and learning do not support the idea that stupidity is a survival strategy worth pursing.

Some ideas can be self-reinforcing: the idea of learning begets the eternal light of ideas.

What, who, why, when, how and is it?

On new furniture

 First, I am still getting use to the new furniture.  It does take time. 

Sitting feels different.  The seat cushion is firm. It does give in time to gravity. The depth of the seat requires a pillow at the back, perhaps out of habit.  The pillows are plump, perhaps too.

The lines are modern, and reminds me of a couch from a time when I was younger. The arms are boxy.

 The cushions might do best with a regular rotation. The larger couch will tend to a middle cushion that doesn’t have the same use, thus the rotation. 

On being meek

 First, there are moments I am struck by the reality of my existence. I hope you are too.  It is your existence and you deserve the right to be moved by the reality of it.  And if so moved by that experience to express yourself, then please feel no hesitation. 

And if moved by that experience to keep very quiet, well, you may very will be meek.

And they say that meek will keep the kingdom to come.