tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.comments2018-07-18T10:31:04.232+01:00192 192 - optimistic but scepticalJay Derrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10999064697991884311noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-91589990635863776602016-10-28T15:58:30.675+01:002016-10-28T15:58:30.675+01:00Well written.
www.motivationstuff.com/good-though...Well written.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.motivationstuff.com/good-thoughts.htm" rel="nofollow">www.motivationstuff.com/good-thoughts.htm</a>Arthur Wanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16048244127475312636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-19426114111884773332015-10-14T03:43:04.306+01:002015-10-14T03:43:04.306+01:00Very cool and very xeno - we love it too.Very cool and very xeno - we <a href="http://gourmetgiftbox.blogspot.com/2015/10/christmas-hampers-melbourne.html" rel="nofollow">love</a> it too.Bren + Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05087946047217163847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-22238381327633914532014-07-01T16:15:30.113+01:002014-07-01T16:15:30.113+01:00I liked this piece very much - I picture you, Jay,...I liked this piece very much - I picture you, Jay, playing that solo with joy and grace The nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-63609943377909531622014-01-15T08:49:45.009+00:002014-01-15T08:49:45.009+00:00Very much looking forward to getting going on your...Very much looking forward to getting going on your TELL blog idea!Jay Derrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999064697991884311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-76048768761676279532014-01-12T16:16:57.036+00:002014-01-12T16:16:57.036+00:00Hi Jay, http://teacheredlifelonglearning.wordpres...Hi Jay, http://teacheredlifelonglearning.wordpress.com ... expect to hear from me soon! Dr Carol Azumah Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08687234164386070882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-88277879047417776452013-12-23T09:49:44.014+00:002013-12-23T09:49:44.014+00:00A capital hit!A capital hit!The nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-68221663831043148922013-11-25T14:57:45.388+00:002013-11-25T14:57:45.388+00:00Perhaps Walter Benjamin's ghost was shimmering...Perhaps Walter Benjamin's ghost was shimmering unseen within those white high ceilinged rooms - I often think of him, in Port Bou - I wish he had escaped!<br />The nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-57356531936871094142013-08-31T20:09:34.994+01:002013-08-31T20:09:34.994+01:00What a wonderful unexpected delight!
What a wonderful unexpected delight!<br />The nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-28550866745689704462013-03-16T20:16:14.529+00:002013-03-16T20:16:14.529+00:00Everything I look at presents me with the chance t...Everything I look at presents me with the chance to imagine innumerable different worlds - a bus stop, for example, could be the a mooring post for a small airship - I've just read "The Street of Crocodiles" by Bruno Schulz - where even a room in a stuffy dark apartment can become the habitat of strange birds, and a man can be dissolved into a wire - I think these stories are as good as Kafka's - as dislocating and spooky The nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-88237271105710102512012-10-23T21:05:52.684+01:002012-10-23T21:05:52.684+01:00George Orwell wrote a powerful review of Dali'...George Orwell wrote a powerful review of Dali's AutobiographyThe nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-35373090071575015142012-10-21T16:05:50.751+01:002012-10-21T16:05:50.751+01:00Thanks for this supportive comment - it's so g...Thanks for this supportive comment - it's so good to get positive feedback! Do tell me what it is in particular you like about it. In answer to your question, I don't think I do deliberately prepare myself to write the blog. I need to be 'in the mood', and this sometimes doesn't happen for months at a time. I think the main driver for me to write is excitement about the ideas I'm trying to share. I splurge out a few sentences in a rush, and then spend more time editing and improving them. I am trying to write well, and one of my main models for good blog writing is the writer of Spitalfields Life, one of my featured blogs, who in my opinion writes beautifully: direct, unfussy, informative, and with a much stronger focus on the people he's writing about than on himself. I hope this helps, all the best.Jay Derrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999064697991884311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-6159773200825900412012-10-14T17:09:16.106+01:002012-10-14T17:09:16.106+01:00My heart is rent with indignationMy heart is rent with indignationThe nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-26546019042011546672012-10-11T20:53:31.380+01:002012-10-11T20:53:31.380+01:00My ignorance about Africa appears wilful - this pr...My ignorance about Africa appears wilful - this prompts me to find out more about this huge landmassThe nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-39282287140297708792012-10-10T16:13:03.626+01:002012-10-10T16:13:03.626+01:00A volume will be placed upon your shelves on the 2...A volume will be placed upon your shelves on the 26th of October - when I hope to be granted a floor in your houseThe nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-6351663029243332102012-10-10T15:17:01.930+01:002012-10-10T15:17:01.930+01:00Thanks for this Chris, glad you like it! The Dide...Thanks for this Chris, glad you like it! The Diderot stuff I'm reading is terrific - an obscure selection of his early writing published in 1916. After Philosophic Thoughts which consists of about 60 short pieces like the one quoted above, I'm now on Letter on the Blind, which fundamentally deals with the same issues not from a moral and philosophical but from a perceptual perspective - once again anticipating Nietzsche that seeing and knowing unavoidably involve interpretation of our perceptions. Blind people don't have limited faculties so much as different ones....it's a wonderful and sophisticated discussion - I can't understand why he isn't better known and more widely read in the UK. <br /><br />Have you finished the Scrope (pronounced Scroop) biography? I'd very much like to read that at some point if you have....Jay Derrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999064697991884311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-64867648951467904962012-10-09T21:19:16.292+01:002012-10-09T21:19:16.292+01:00Peradventure my own spectacles require fresh lense...Peradventure my own spectacles require fresh lenses - I really enjoyed reading this quotation from Diderot. <br />I am presently reading a biography of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who died tragically in 1798 following the crushing of the United Irishmen - his charm and idealism shine through in the letters quoted - his cousin was Charles James Fox, that louche whig and gambler<br />The nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-63439111160361526352012-09-16T00:41:11.343+01:002012-09-16T00:41:11.343+01:00First off Ι ωаnt to say fаntastic blog!
I had a qu...First off Ι ωаnt to say fаntastic blog!<br />I had a quick question in ωhich I'd like to ask if you do not mind. I was curious to know how you center yourself and clear your thoughts prior to writing. I have had a tough time clearing my mind in getting my thoughts out there. I do take pleasure in writing however it just seems like the first 10 to 15 minutes are generally wasted just trying to figure out how to begin. Any ideas or hints? Cheers!<br /><i>Also visit my website</i> - <b><a href="http://genius-foundation.org/Brook29" rel="nofollow">Instructions</a></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-61886852957509436042012-02-12T20:00:35.525+00:002012-02-12T20:00:35.525+00:00I think we each of us have our own private rituals...I think we each of us have our own private rituals, which comfort us - when I brush out the grate every morning, I am calmed by the movement of the ash - when I wrote shiny reports I was calmed by numbering all my paragraphs, like this - 1.0, 1.1 or even 1.1.1The nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-16086276732779061422012-01-29T20:19:47.402+00:002012-01-29T20:19:47.402+00:00very true about quotes having opposites. I also li...very true about quotes having opposites. I also like to know the source of quotes, that way you get a fuller picture. I like the Einstein quote which reverses some of the word order to make a statement - that's another feature of some quotes and I think they deserve study! <br /><br />'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act' George OrwellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-36048043653088857772012-01-19T02:29:43.758+00:002012-01-19T02:29:43.758+00:00Hi Jay, oh I'd love it if he were to come here...Hi Jay, oh I'd love it if he were to come here. And I've got just the perfect place for him! The new Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart would snap him up. I'm sure he must be on their radar anyway.<br /><br />I just love that he made the celadon pot and then smashed it and repaired it with gold, and the pot with him marrying his teddy with all the leaders in the world in attendance. I'll read your other post about him anon. Thank you again. My mind felt like it had been pumped full of energy after I read your post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-10613489202314541922012-01-19T00:09:58.435+00:002012-01-19T00:09:58.435+00:00Hi Narelle, maybe he will be exhibited in Australi...Hi Narelle, maybe he will be exhibited in Australia soon - I only heard of him a couple of years ago when he won the Turner Prize, which is the most high-profile award for artists here in the UK. I hope you get a chance to see his stuff, because my two posts hardly give any kind of coherent picture of this exhibition, in which he mixes up his own work with artefacts and pieces he picked out from the entire collection at the British Museum. You'd think that would produce a show that was interesting and stimulating but eclectic and sort of random, but what's weird is that, as well as being all of those things, the show is the most coherent I remember ever going to. It really makes sense! GP has a wonderfully clear vision, both serious and wacky, of what he's doing and how that fits within, well, all cultures across time and space. That may sound like making too grand a claim for him, but I hope you get a chance soon to see his stuff and see whether you agree - if you do I hope you'll be in touch again!Jay Derrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999064697991884311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-18734769941610452732012-01-18T11:27:27.563+00:002012-01-18T11:27:27.563+00:00Wow! Who is this man? I'm agog. Don't know...Wow! Who is this man? I'm agog. Don't know what to marvel over first ... Thank you for the introduction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-21575681186140436272012-01-16T14:52:45.893+00:002012-01-16T14:52:45.893+00:00Regarding your latest comments, all I'll say i...Regarding your latest comments, all I'll say is that even as teachers, in truth we remain students in many respects. If we can accept that, everyday will bring with it the sunrise of new experiences and possibilities!<br /><br />HannaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-19335375209180579662012-01-16T14:49:08.082+00:002012-01-16T14:49:08.082+00:00I do agree strongly, Jay, that practioners are and...I do agree strongly, Jay, that practioners are and should be constantly learning and reviewing their methods; even science does not claim to have definitive knowledge; but in all human humility, the process of prodding and reviewing is one that churns excellence. Although I have previous teaching experience under my belt, at the moment there are many lessons that I am teaching for the very first time and I know that there will be multiple angles with which I could have approached the topic - or it strikes me painfully that had I approached my planning earlier I could well have adapted a better and more concise approach for my students. It may even be that I could have collaborated various sources in order to broaden my own approach as opposed to having one selective view on the subject matter. I often feel that whilst teaching, I realise a better approach than what I had initially planned for, when groping around in the darkness of my own presumptions and dabblings.<br /> <br />Which brings me to the question of the importance and benefit of collaboration for improved practice. You are not alone! So why struggle alone? Talk to friends, talk to colleagues, go online and see what our neighbouring teachers are doing across the globe. Our minds are as vast as the universe is in its immensity, so we only fall short of searching and asking when it comes to ideas. Sharing is caring, and the teaching profession is very much about just that.<br /> <br />All-in-all, I agree that a practitioner, whatever their profession be will, even unwittingly, improve with growing experience. Reflection alone cannot lead to improved practice any more than simply wishing upon a star would transport me to the land of my dreams! I must think and then work, and as the adage goes, 'if at first you do not succeed, then try, try again!'; try until you are content that if you were on stage before the entirety of the world, you would not feel that your lesson did not fulfil the objectives that you had gleefully scribbled down.<br /><br />Hanna (AKA Hina)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-45180031840602671802012-01-16T14:43:51.161+00:002012-01-16T14:43:51.161+00:00Thanks for this response. I like 'Keep calm a...Thanks for this response. I like 'Keep calm and do the Maths' - that would be a brilliant strapline for Ben Goldacre's Bad Science column in the Guardian. One of the dangers of quotes is that you can nearly always find another one that says the opposite of the one you are interested in.<br /><br />How about this instead of 'Fail to prepare, prepare to fail': 'Nothing venture, nothing gain'; or 'You can't jump a ravine in stages, you have to do it all at once'.<br /><br />I see this type of saying as 'proverbs': nobody knows who said them first. I particularly like it when I know who said the quote first. It tells me something about them, about their ideas, and maybe about their work. What do you think of these:<br /><br />'As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.' Albert Einstein<br /><br />'The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.' Edward Gibbon<br /><br />'Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work' Bette Davis<br /><br />'Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion' Francis Bacon<br /><br />JayJay Derrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999064697991884311noreply@blogger.com