Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
“Self-Portrait” — Image by kenne
This week’s Presidential election has reminded me of Marshall McLuhan’s trademark, “The Medium In the Message.” From it, I recall his belief that we go through life looking through the rear-view mirror, and becoming aware of our environment only after we have left it and that what is communicated doesn’t count as much as how it is delivered.
Of course, the medium that exists today is much different than that of the sixties, they still alter our sensory life, therefore what we know. As a result, our society is like the driver who sees neither ahead to the future nor outside the side window to the present but looks only to the past in the rear-view mirror — “Make America great again.”
McLuhan believed that education must serve as a defense to the media fallout. He likened our society to the mariner in Edgar Allan Poe’s story, “A Descent Into the Maelstrom.” The mariner is caught in a whirlpool, but he figures out the relative velocities of currents and saves himself. The question remains whether, as a society, we are educated enough to save ourselves.
“TIME FOR MORE ACTION”
January 17, 2003, Peace Demonstration In Houston, Texas — Photo by Joy
In some ways, I feel as if I may have been in a trance these past eight years, kind of a passive free feeling. It’s now time to stand. Social justice, like art, requires an effort. It’s time for those who have half a heart for poetry, half for life to stand for truth. Those who have continued learning and have been sharpening our weapons by night to clear their throats and stand, becoming the voices of truth.
— kenne
Forest View on Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
I was pleased to be one of five Sabino Canyon Volunteer Nationalists (SCVN) to take 12-17 year old youth, who are participating in Goodwill Industries GoodGuides mentoring program, hiking on Mt. Lemmon last week.
Funded by a two-year grant to Goodwill Industries International from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Goodwill GoodGuides program is run by 56 independent Goodwill agencies around the country.
The goal of the GoodGuides program is to help youth build career plans and skills, and prepare for school completion, post-secondary training, and productive work.
This is the second year SCVN has provided a guided hike on Mt. Lemmon for students in the GoodGuides program, most of which have never been hiking in the Santa Catalina mountains.
— kenne
Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.
— Richard Louv author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
White winged doves plays an important role in the life-cycle of saguaro cactus, loving the nectar of the the saguaro flower.
Here, this white winged dove appears to be patiently waiting for the buds to open. — Image by kenne
“Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Whoo-whoo-whoo
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she’s singin’
Whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo”
7th Grade Students Get A Watercolor Lesson Near Sabino Creek In Sabino Canyon. — Images by kenne
Two-tailed Swallowtail — Image by kenne
Two-tailed swallowtail
Still trying to get its wings
Lands on dirt runway.
— kenne
Elementary school children enjoy looking down to Sabino creek with SCVN naturalist, Jan.
Naturalist, Jan with elementary school children in Sabino Canyon. — Images by kenne
Desert Chicory Wildflower and Little Friends (Popcorn Flowers)– Image by kenne
Desert chicory
Standing with popcorn flowers
Annual spring herbs.
— kenne
Young Horned Lizard — Image by kenne
Purple Prickly Pear Cactus Blossoms (Opuntia macrocentra) — Images by kenne
Gila Monster — Image by kenne
Gila Monster — Image by kenne
Frequent sightings
driven by hunger and
spring mating —
slow-moving
morning walks in
black, pink and orange.
— kenne
Side-blotched Lizard and Fairy Duster Wildflowers — Image by kenne
Thistle and Bees — Images by kenne
Your beauty will fade
A time nature determines
Never in my eyes.
— kenne
Desert Wildflowers — Image by kenne
Tell me what you think art is — if you can
— ask a lot of people — and see if anybody knows . . .
You ask me about music — I like it better than anything
in the world — Color gives me the same thrill once in
a long long time — I can almost remember and count the times
— it is usually just the outdoors or the flowers — or a person —
sometimes a story — or something that will call a picture
to my mind — will affect me like music —
— Georgia O’Keeffe
“In Search of Water” — Image by kenne
vanishing water
so dear to sustaining life
in the dry, dry, west
— kenne
