This is Cobb

This post isn’t quite in the vein of my usual stuff, but oh well. At any rate, it’s mostly intended for Jenna and Alec. I at long last rediscovered the poem I wrote for one of SUPs few writing workshops. Our prompt (which was really wonderful) was a children’s book called, I [...]

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discovering why i will never own cashmere…

Whew.  Finals are at last done, if somewhat belatedly so (I turned in my final paper Dec. 12th, though finals week officially only runs through the 8th.)   I churned out 47 pages in about two weeks, and learned my lesson about starting my paper writing earlier in the quarter (or was it the lesson that [...]

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end of term wrap-up

What I’ve been learning this week:
way too much about someone else’s life
how nature and God are not the same thing (and thus we should feel free to exploit the earth more)
how nature and God are the same thing (if said reverently) (and thus we shouldn’t exploit the earth)
enjoyably-written reminder of why reductionism is reductive and [...]

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