the guy by the door …

Two examples submitted for your approval and consideration - here in the Berkblog Zone.

Faith married a long time friend. Mr. Faith married really, really
well, In fact, at one point, the ‘not quite decided to be Mr.
Faith’  was told by another long time friend of mine, “If you
don’t marry her I will”. I don’t know exactly when this happened, but
it might have been while we were all anarchist swimming in Spy Pond.

They were a two career couple struggling with just how New Age they
were going to be. Her job was not the career she had imagined for
herself in her youth [ She had had the creative urge from early on],
but it seemed to meet her basic need.  Eventually they decided to
try to make baby. I think it was more her idea than his, but I don’t
actually know. When she became pregnant her job became just fine thank
you very much. When she lost the baby, her job and everything else in
the universe became without form and void.

There was light again, then dark. Light. Dark. I don’t know the exact
number. Maybe I shouldn’t. But eventually the lamp stayed lit. My
brother, 1944, was  “Gee honey I don’t know if I’ll make it back.”
I, 1947, am an accident of enthusiasm at being back. But the daughter
of Faith was anything but an accident.

———

Lisa is a stay at home mom and quite proud of it, thank you very much.
She was an analyst and may be again. But for now, raising the kids is
enough — almost. She blogs her life and  is a significant
contributor to the advancement of blogcraft.

———

So tell me now, is there a relationship between the gift
of creativity a woman has in her womb and the gift of creativity she
has in her mind? Should we [or could we] try to create a partition if
nature thinks otherwise?

The old bachelor by the door who looks after things.
randy.f

… especially one that fancies itself the greatest steward of the humanities in the world?

You
can click the picture for a 2x enlargement. Even so, You can’t see it,
but in the upper right hand corner, Paul Gauguin wrote three questions:

Where do we come from?
What are we?
 Where are we going?

{I
will put up the original french [I’ll clip from the Web ] after I
enable French Characters on my [I’m ashamed to say] WinXP.}

As
we sit on the brink of World War III, this last seems most pressing.
Much like the NBER assessment of the economy, we won’t know until we’re
a bit farther down the road. WWW III is actually a small worry compared
to the extinction of our species which we seem to be signing up for.
We’re in deep s**t and could use all the help we can get. Honest
science can help. I say let’s invite the women. [Gee that was a bit
awkward!] Let’s ask the women to help us. [Would a truly efficient
market ignore more than half of the talent pool?] It’s not enough to
wait till University, but it’s a start. Let’s get cracking shall we? We
don’t really know how much time we have.

Professor Stephen, who
recently left us, would be very sad. He quotes Charles Darwin, “If the
misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our
institutions, great is our sin.” Not only are we mismeasuring man,
woman, and child, but we are mismeasuring [or in some cases not
measuring when we should and could] homo economicus as well. Let’s look
at this more carefully shall we? Before we reduce any more economies
and our own to feudalism. A ray of hope is Professor Stephen, who is
still with us. Others though, including some of the most influential in
the University, have, I fear, caused Harvard’s sin to be huge.

I don’t really know why Professor Cornell is no longer here. I did not know him personally. Still I miss him. Google points
me to context of the quote from Professor Charles. He believes that
slavery is a greater sin than what might be caused by the market. Like
Professor Michael, he believes there are moral limits to markets. I
will ask, [real soon now] has ‘market’ ever been defined without
explicit or implicit moral limits? And have the definers been honest
about their purpose?

I apologize to Professor Diana. Her
sweet, beautiful misapprehension was not of the business model of this
University, but a hopefully small portion of our fellows. I will tell
you. And I would like to tell about the day that Professor Margaret
took on all the faculty on Observatory Hill to say what honest
empiricism required her to say.

But what do I know?
I’m just the guy by the door who looks after things.

randy.f

After all we have all this super woopie do e-comm gear. Several answers Here’s the first in three parts.

*The boundaries between different tools are at the moment too sharp. We
need software that allows communicants to move more freely between
different modes. More in a future post.

Veterans returning from the Iraq War are touring eastern Massachusetts. It is sponsored by Iraq Veterans against the War and Military Families Speak Out. The kickoff was Sunday Jan 30 at Faneuil Hall.There was a vigil outside and testimony in the Great Hall.
More pictures. Click on the thumbs to get full pages.

-r

Only twenty some bombings reported. A quiet day? Are the media telling us the whole story? Were the reporters able to get to the story? Afterall the whole country was locked down. What has happened to us that we think that only twenty bombings is a good day?

Ok. The election was a success. So bring the troops home already!