Comments on: Workshops, Animal Hospitals and Lots to Be Thankful For… http://bgblogging.com/2008/11/23/workshops-animal-hospitals-and-lots-to-be-thankful-for/ Exploring the Far Reaches of Teaching & Learning Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:03:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Aggregating Google Calendars at bavatuesdays http://bgblogging.com/2008/11/23/workshops-animal-hospitals-and-lots-to-be-thankful-for/#comment-632 Aggregating Google Calendars at bavatuesdays Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:34:09 +0000 http://bgblogging.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-632 [...] work Jon has been doing with the elmcity.info site is pretty awesome, and reminds me so much of the work Barabra Ganley has turned her focus to with community digital [...] [...] work Jon has been doing with the elmcity.info site is pretty awesome, and reminds me so much of the work Barabra Ganley has turned her focus to with community digital [...]

]]> By: bgblogging http://bgblogging.com/2008/11/23/workshops-animal-hospitals-and-lots-to-be-thankful-for/#comment-629 bgblogging Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:54:38 +0000 http://bgblogging.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-629 Thanks, Cathy and Leslie for the kind words about FInn. He's doing pretty darn well right now--what a spirit! Lanny, it's remarkable, really, how many slow bloggers have commented or emailed me or linked here. There is some absolutely riveting blogging going on out there! Yay! Marc, great idea, the Slow Bicycle movement. My husband is a serious cyclist; I am a plodder. I do hope that in the spring I find my way to choosing two wheels instead of four. Gotta get some cool baskets for my bike first, though and let the snowy-icy season pass. ~bg Thanks, Cathy and Leslie for the kind words about FInn. He’s doing pretty darn well right now–what a spirit!

Lanny, it’s remarkable, really, how many slow bloggers have commented or emailed me or linked here. There is some absolutely riveting blogging going on out there! Yay!

Marc, great idea, the Slow Bicycle movement. My husband is a serious cyclist; I am a plodder. I do hope that in the spring I find my way to choosing two wheels instead of four. Gotta get some cool baskets for my bike first, though and let the snowy-icy season pass.

~bg

]]> By: amsterdamize http://bgblogging.com/2008/11/23/workshops-animal-hospitals-and-lots-to-be-thankful-for/#comment-624 amsterdamize Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:09:16 +0000 http://bgblogging.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-624 Hi Barbara, I just found out about your blog through <a href="http://reflectedplaces.blogspot.com/2008/11/haste-scorned-blogging-at-snails-pace.html" rel="nofollow">another blog's review</a> and I'd like to know if you've taken up that bicycle commute yet. If so, I'm sure you find it a great place to collect your thoughts. Moreover, I invite you to join the <a href="http://theslowbicycle.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Slow Bicycle Movement</a>. Don't let the Manifesto fool you, it's nothing too serious, and obviously updates are rare :). Best wishes for Finn-dog's recovery and cheers, Marc Hi Barbara, I just found out about your blog through another blog’s review and I’d like to know if you’ve taken up that bicycle commute yet. If so, I’m sure you find it a great place to collect your thoughts. Moreover, I invite you to join the Slow Bicycle Movement. Don’t let the Manifesto fool you, it’s nothing too serious, and obviously updates are rare :) .

Best wishes for Finn-dog’s recovery and cheers,
Marc

]]> By: Leslie M-B http://bgblogging.com/2008/11/23/workshops-animal-hospitals-and-lots-to-be-thankful-for/#comment-623 Leslie M-B Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:51:00 +0000 http://bgblogging.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-623 Oh Barbara, I'm so sorry to hear the news about Finn-dog's biopsies not looking good. I'm so glad I had a chance to meet him when I did. What a fabulous dog. Oh Barbara, I’m so sorry to hear the news about Finn-dog’s biopsies not looking good. I’m so glad I had a chance to meet him when I did. What a fabulous dog.

]]> By: Lanny Arvan http://bgblogging.com/2008/11/23/workshops-animal-hospitals-and-lots-to-be-thankful-for/#comment-622 Lanny Arvan Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:40:35 +0000 http://bgblogging.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-622 The times being what they are, I expect that many people are examining their own closely held assumptions. Some may find slow blogging a welcome ways to work through those issues. It's good they have such a great example to emulate and that you're able to talk about personal loss with deep feeling but openly. The times being what they are, I expect that many people are examining their own closely held assumptions. Some may find slow blogging a welcome ways to work through those issues. It’s good they have such a great example to emulate and that you’re able to talk about personal loss with deep feeling but openly.

]]> By: Cathy Santarsiero http://bgblogging.com/2008/11/23/workshops-animal-hospitals-and-lots-to-be-thankful-for/#comment-621 Cathy Santarsiero Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:22:39 +0000 http://bgblogging.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-621 Just popping in to let you know that you are in my thoughts and prayers regarding your beloved Finn-dog. Warmly, Cathy in NY ^..^ Just popping in to let you know that you are in my thoughts and prayers regarding your beloved Finn-dog. Warmly, Cathy in NY ^..^

]]> By: bgblogging http://bgblogging.com/2008/11/23/workshops-animal-hospitals-and-lots-to-be-thankful-for/#comment-620 bgblogging Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:19:03 +0000 http://bgblogging.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-620 Beth, I do agree, and I am grateful to have new readers and for those readers to journey through my blog to others. Finding others who weave together photo and text is a gift. Lanny, You are a slow-blogger of the deeply intellectual sort, I'd say. I agree about the need to use language, writing to understand the world is nothing new. But that we do so transparently across distance as ongoing dialogue without the onerous filtering of journal or book-editing process which would take the life out of the kind of free-wheeling, expansive noodling we do here. I think people don't have the time for these sorts of practices--it's too bad, for I wonder what would shift for us culturally if everyone slowed down enough to explore their own narrative inextricably intertwined with those of others. It is as rich a collective-intelligence experience as I have ever had, an incubator of creative projects, of my work in the world. And because of sharp readers like you, I don't get away with much, either! Katie, thanks for the encouragement on the style front.;-) Having former students such as you now as my peers out in the world, participating in f2f writing groups with me and then here on the blog, well, that's something that couldn't have happened in pre-blog days. Elizabeth M from Wales, Thanks for hopping on here and letting me know about your slow-blogging. I look forward to following along! Finding co-horts across the globe makes me hopeful that this little movement, be it slow-food, slow-blog, slow-community can contribute to the larger conversation about our future. ~bg Beth, I do agree, and I am grateful to have new readers and for those readers to journey through my blog to others. Finding others who weave together photo and text is a gift.

Lanny, You are a slow-blogger of the deeply intellectual sort, I’d say. I agree about the need to use language, writing to understand the world is nothing new. But that we do so transparently across distance as ongoing dialogue without the onerous filtering of journal or book-editing process which would take the life out of the kind of free-wheeling, expansive noodling we do here. I think people don’t have the time for these sorts of practices–it’s too bad, for I wonder what would shift for us culturally if everyone slowed down enough to explore their own narrative inextricably intertwined with those of others. It is as rich a collective-intelligence experience as I have ever had, an incubator of creative projects, of my work in the world. And because of sharp readers like you, I don’t get away with much, either!

Katie, thanks for the encouragement on the style front.;-) Having former students such as you now as my peers out in the world, participating in f2f writing groups with me and then here on the blog, well, that’s something that couldn’t have happened in pre-blog days.

Elizabeth M from Wales, Thanks for hopping on here and letting me know about your slow-blogging. I look forward to following along! Finding co-horts across the globe makes me hopeful that this little movement, be it slow-food, slow-blog, slow-community can contribute to the larger conversation about our future.

~bg

]]> By: elizabethm http://bgblogging.com/2008/11/23/workshops-animal-hospitals-and-lots-to-be-thankful-for/#comment-619 elizabethm Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:28:11 +0000 http://bgblogging.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-619 Hi I came to you from the hills of Wales via the nyt article which I suspect would apply to me and my blog too! I blog to reflect, sometimes on my garden and my vegetable growing, sometimes on broader issues and it is certainly not fast! I didn't know it had a name and, as you say, the article both got it and missed it. I have a lot of sympathy with the slow food movement so if the wider movement encompasses reflective and thoughtful blogging that has to be a good thing. I hope your dog is on the way to recovery! Hi I came to you from the hills of Wales via the nyt article which I suspect would apply to me and my blog too! I blog to reflect, sometimes on my garden and my vegetable growing, sometimes on broader issues and it is certainly not fast! I didn’t know it had a name and, as you say, the article both got it and missed it. I have a lot of sympathy with the slow food movement so if the wider movement encompasses reflective and thoughtful blogging that has to be a good thing.
I hope your dog is on the way to recovery!

]]> By: Katie http://bgblogging.com/2008/11/23/workshops-animal-hospitals-and-lots-to-be-thankful-for/#comment-618 Katie Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:15:56 +0000 http://bgblogging.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-618 Oh, Barbara — I am so sad and sorry to hear about Finn. He is incomparable. Give him a good long pat for me. I'm thinking of him (and you, of course). (On the style front, for what it's worth, I think you lead one of the more stylish lives of anyone I know! I agree with the comment above about the article perhaps being more suited to technology/education — but don't sell yourself short; you very much belong in the style pages, too!) Oh, Barbara — I am so sad and sorry to hear about Finn. He is incomparable. Give him a good long pat for me. I’m thinking of him (and you, of course).

(On the style front, for what it’s worth, I think you lead one of the more stylish lives of anyone I know! I agree with the comment above about the article perhaps being more suited to technology/education — but don’t sell yourself short; you very much belong in the style pages, too!)

]]> By: Lanny Arvan http://bgblogging.com/2008/11/23/workshops-animal-hospitals-and-lots-to-be-thankful-for/#comment-615 Lanny Arvan Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:43:15 +0000 http://bgblogging.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-615 I did start writing my blog partly as protest against the digest form of communication that other IT professionals seem to crave but I abhor. However, that is not a sustaining reason. The importance of dialog with self and then bringing that out in the open to interact with the stories of others seems like the key. But I assume that need has been with us way before the Internet and will continue long after blogs are a bygone form. So the mystery for me is why slow blogging is still comparatively rare. It's as if most people are denying themselves of their own narrative. I did start writing my blog partly as protest against the digest form of communication that other IT professionals seem to crave but I abhor. However, that is not a sustaining reason. The importance of dialog with self and then bringing that out in the open to interact with the stories of others seems like the key. But I assume that need has been with us way before the Internet and will continue long after blogs are a bygone form. So the mystery for me is why slow blogging is still comparatively rare. It’s as if most people are denying themselves of their own narrative.

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