today
all
ten
are
screaming
'jingle bells'
while
shaping
clay
guitars
four
years
old
and
filled
with
joy
how does it work?
we stretch strings across the hole and they make sounds that echo
that's physics
what's physics?
nobody can see it
then how do you know?
did you know that the only straight line in physics is sound?
what do you mean?
sound makes the air move and it goes in a straight line
there are no other straight lines in physics?
no
where does sound go?
straight into your brain
doesn't it stay outside your body?
it goes to all the countries
how many countries are there?
ten
are you sure?
no wait, I forgot some, a hundred million zillion ones
that's a lot of places for sound to go
ya everybody gets it
where did you learn that?
at lunch time I think about science
"...when everyone is respected for what they are doing,
there are no one way questions...that we can come to
the conversation without guiding it towards our own
expectations." (Amelia, Gambetti)
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I had to read the conversation twice to figure out who was who in it, which is part of the pleasure, I suppose.
conversations with children...sometimes it's hard to tell who is the wiser
precisely what I was thinking ...
[at lunch time I think about science]
this is actually a great line; it makes me smile, because I cay see myself saying it, or at least trying to work it into a converastion eg [how do you know this?] - 'I think about foreign policy and nuclear proliferation during commerical breaks ... '
'that we can come to the conversation without guiding it towards our own expectations.'
this is an interesting notion as well, if only because we often do guide it, if only subtly, towards where we want to take it.
this is funny
['I think about foreign policy and nuclear proliferation during commerical breaks ... ']
[we often do guide it, if only subtly, towards where we want to take it.]... as opposed to being that ready that we can bend to the moment and throw away our plans in order to learn about someone else
yes, for example; I think that we (many that is, I at the forefront) tend to enter into conversation with (pre-conceived) notions of things in general, guiding it towards what we already believe, even at the expense of [learning about someone]
so you say, as you step back to let the writer write
a pragmatic response, no doubt.
rather heartfelt actually
a pragmatic response on my behalf, I should have said, as I think that we're alluding to different things
okay, I understand
and because beating a dead horse is sometimes fun, just for the exercise ... it also assumes that I am not the writer, and that a pragmatic response to not guiding it where I want is to step back, to allow the writer to write with some breathing room.
two trains on different tracks.
[two trains on different tracks]
of course many things come to mind...
Amelia Gambetti's "There are different trains that cross your life and you can get them or you can miss them."
Alex Coleville's (painting of) Horse and Train
pulling away from the station at the beginning of a journey and not sure which (train) is moving, which is stationary
but mainly [because beating a dead horse is sometimes fun]
Monty Python's
"It's not dead yet." "Yes it is." "No its not."
[... it also assumes that I am not the writer]
two trains of thought, on parallel, if not intersecting courses, in the distance ... like standing on tracks, looking down them, to where they seemingly connect somewhere, but not quite here
and everything in between
and everything in btwn ...
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