From the Compost Heap header. A pencil style illustration of a compost heap with flowers and plants growing around it. A bee buzzes by and a white rabbit hops by.
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    Painting autumnal leaves for fine motor and art lessons this week. 🍁

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    Vanzant Fruit Farm

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    Rearranged my bookshelf.

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    Test

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  • Draft no. 4

    Draft no. 4

    by John McPhee This book is half writing craft / half memoir. Here are some of his gem’s about writing. First, one of the graphs that inspired me to buy the book. I am fascinated how he thinks so visually about his structural process. (The book was second hand and dog eared when I bought […]

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  • Leap Before You Look (2015)

    Leap Before You Look (2015)

    Black Mountain College had an expansive view of art where “artistic exchange” and the “cultural ecosystem” were central. Here are some of my notes from Molesworth’s excellent book Leap Before You Look.

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    Notes on attention from Austin Kleon & Alan Jacobs.

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  • “LIFE IS NOT ABOUT READING OUT A BLUEPRINT, IT’S ABOUT CREATING FLEXIBLE RULES AND RESOURCES FROM WHICH DIVERSE FORMS MIGHT EMERGE.” Philip Ball, How Life Really Works via Austin Kleon

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  • This seems like another potential language for whole to part thinking (gestalt cognitive processing): Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe wrote in “Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery,” rewilding pays attention “to the emergent properties of interactions between ‘things’ in ecosystems … a move from linear to systems thinking.” Rewilding: The Radical New Science of […]

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    Continued reading indicated this area of research may have originated with Dr. Barry Prizant and then abandoned by his peers (along with Gestalt Language Processing.) Here is an early study of his (bear in mind this was written a long time ago and is more deficit based than his current work.) PDF (Source)

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