I think this is from Tala. BEBER Al doctor Pedro de Alba Recuerdo gestos de criaturas y son gestos de darme el agua. En el valle de Río Blanco, en donde nace el Aconcagua, llegué a beber, salté a beber en el fuete de una cascada, que caía crinada y dura y se rompía yerta … More Beber
Incredibly, Friday is the ninth anniversary of the storm. Rising Tide, the bloggers’ conference that grew out of this, is on September 13 this year, which means I may be able to go. Will you be there too? I have to be back in Maringouin by evening, because I like Maringouin now and have something … More Katrina 9
In Reeducation, as we know, my ability to remain objective and maintain a certain level of detachment from things was considered to be a lack of affect … when really it was just a professional skill, as well as an unwillingness to participate in histrionics. Did I need really destructive treatment … a lethal blow … More De l’objectivité
A look at psychoanalytic literature is always enlightening and also engrossing, and I would have studied this full time or would do (it is another way I would betray my current, and apparently very jealous profession). I see that the “false self” that U.S. psychotherapy associates with success, is not what the notion of “false … More Des faits nouvelles
Stand up for yourself. But if I do, I will be killed. But what if that is not true any longer? That is the exercise for this week. For the semester and the future, sweeping away all the complex cobwebs, the line and program is: 1. The original disaster happened because I was too intimidated … More For this week
It had a quotation about advising people on graduate school that I thought was smart but that bothered me in the end. I killed it by mistake but perhaps that was a good thing. I am going to stop railing about academic advice because in the end it is a personal issue, I am talking … More In which I find I have inadvertently killed a post
And this is the other thing I do not understand about academia, our duty to be in academia, and so on. All I ever heard about were the things you may not do if you are a professor. You may not: * desire to live somewhere pleasant, that you have any part in choosing * … More You may not
And look at this. Kansas already has a freely accessible website for second year Spanish, and Florida will have one for the first year soon. Also look at this. I would so like to work on a big, modern campus that had such things. I should arrange to visit Austin soon. I am so glad … More Openstax
I also see perfectly what I was trying to make a radical break from and why, at a psychological level, it was virtually impossible to keep working in that field. Yes, in the best of all possible worlds one could have done it but it was far more realistic to switch. And what I considered … More And also
To write, you have to feel comfortable and allow yourself authority. (You are also best not suffering sharp pain, and your mind must be clear.) It helps also if it is what you want to do. I wanted to do it for a long time or was happy to do it. For a long time … More And again
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