We enjoyed watching Samsara at the Dendy Newtown. Breath-taking visuals from around the world combined with uplifting music. No Brad Pitt, no screen play written by a case of arrested development, no shouting, no message shoved down one’s eyes. A meditation, most of which works, some of which does not. All trip and no arrival, much like life. So many arresting images, so many of them completely foreign and yet familiar for all that.
http://barakasamsara.com/
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Month: January 2013
Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
I have read all of David Malouf’s novels, I thought. Each year I give the undergraduate intern with whom I work a David Malouf novel as a thank you. These interns are international students, and I reason that a Malouf novel gives them a little more of Australia to take home. I also think that they should read novels, and that having one in hand before a long flight home to Sweden, Germany, Poland, or the United States might be read. One lives in hope for there is no other way to live.
In july 2012 when I purchased the annual Malouf novel for the intern, I noticed that among the list of his novels there was an early one which I had not read, Fly Away Peter (1982).
I put it on my Amazon Wish List and sure enough, Santa gave it to me for Christmas, in the person of daughter Julie.
Teaching and Learning
I recently published a piece titled ‘Approaches to Learning and Teaching: Some Observations,’ in Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, Volume 33 (2012), pp: 65-71.
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http://www.viterbo.edu/uploadedFiles/academics/letters/philosophy/atp/Jackson-WIP.pdf
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