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Hi-Phi Nation: a Philosophy Podcast

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

The February 2019 dead tree edition of Chronogram, a local magazine here in the Hudson Valley of New York, had a brief interview with Barry Lam of Vassar Colleg...

impulses/learning

Revisions Needed

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Anonymous I came across, by way of a ...

a black walnut, opened by a squirrel
food/learning

Persistence

Posted on Monday, December 10th, 2018 by Will Cox

Have you cracked a black walnut? Or, perhaps more precisely, have you tried to crack a black walnut? I found this half of a walnut shell on my walk th...

learning/Place

Any Morning

Posted on Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 by Will Cox

Just lying on the couch and being happy. Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head. Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it has so much to do in th...

communication/learning/Work

Feedback

Posted on Friday, May 18th, 2018 by Will Cox

I don’t recall many of my college successes with great clarity, but I do recall my few failures. Two in particular stand out: both D’s on short pape...

learning

The Illusion of Perfection

Posted on Sunday, April 1st, 2018 by Will Cox

One of my favorite stories of a political figure is of Jimmy Carter, who said, yes, I’ve sinned. I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve...

learning

Woke Up This Morning

Posted on Friday, March 30th, 2018 by Will Cox

Starting the morning with a poem is, oddly, a practice that hadn’t occurred to me until listening to Krista Tippett’s conversation with Naomi Shihab...

law/learning/politics

Shut Up and Sit Down

Posted on Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 by Will Cox

The Arlington (NY) Central School District, after declaring a snow day because it was snowy, sent parents a note regarding the possibility of intentional studen...

learning

The Water the Frog Boils In

Posted on Thursday, February 8th, 2018 by Will Cox

The last few days I’ve been watching presentations from LISA and Velocity on the difficulties and rewards of the cultural transformation needed by a lean,...

family/learning/liberty

Patience, Grasshopper

Posted on Tuesday, February 6th, 2018 by Will Cox

A little attention goes a long way. I’ve come to believe that a great deal of unnecessary coercion, what one might call excessive use of force, is directl...

family/learning/liberty

Observations on Compulsory Schooling

Posted on Sunday, January 28th, 2018 by Will Cox

Walking back from the bus stop, No. 2 Son, who is only just 10, looked thoughtful. A few steps later, he remarked, “School is slavery.” “It is...

learning/Place

Wonder

Posted on Thursday, November 30th, 2017 by Will Cox

Yesterday I asked, what about the world beyond the virtual? Computers didn’t have, for the longest time, sensors. Their only interaction with the world wa...

General/learning

But I Get Up Again

Posted on Friday, November 3rd, 2017 by Will Cox

I didn’t hit publish on my latest until after midnight, so it looks like I missed two days, not one. I could fudge the record by back-dating posts, but I&...

learning

Special Snowflakes

Posted on Friday, October 27th, 2017 by Will Cox

Number Two Daughter asked if I was writing a book. No, just my journal, I replied. It looks like a book, though: it’s bound nicely and is filling. I suppo...

family/learning

I Wish I Could Go Back to College

Posted on Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 by Will Cox

No. 1 Daughter is a junior in high school this year. My how time flies. Her next act on the world stage approaches. Last year, to be helpful, because she was re...

family/learning/poem/rant

School, a Poem

Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016 by Will Cox

Locks us inside 3 minute breaks in between 42 minutes “School,” a poem by Number Two Daughter (13) Number Two Daughter brought this poem home from s...

learning/poem

Shoshin (初心)

Posted on Saturday, February 7th, 2015 by Will Cox

I started over after not practicing yoga for several months.

family/learning

Fight the Power

Posted on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 by Will Cox

Compulsory schooling is vile.

family/learning

Disillusionment

Posted on Thursday, September 4th, 2014 by Will Cox

I can clearly remember the moment when I realized that my interests did not align with school’s. I was 13. I loved school. I loved it because I saw my fri...

family/learning

The First Day of School

Posted on Thursday, September 4th, 2014 by Will Cox

The Night Before No. 2 Son (6), on tomorrow: “I wish every school day were Saturday, so then we would not have school.” Supplies bought. Forms compl...

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