Sunday, April 27, 2008

ON whether it's SUSTAINABLE to Serve Shrimp at Out Year-End Dinner


Dear Colleagues.

A little thing maybe but with
sustainability issues, size
don't matter: what we
DO with it
does.

Takes a Shrimp

To Save a Village

Thanks John
for bringing
this to
everyone’s
attention
and keeping
us thinking.
M.Brenner

That right there makes me
think about what-it-takes
to keep us thinking.

All these years of spam I am
presuming to
Think-Of-Shrimp
Together
so to speak

I can call IT that:
let T.O.S T. represent
collegial & collaborative
genius-at-work, acknowledging
that it’s not the token topic

(smoking, parking, video-games,
infrastructural house-keeping
affairs we have with us always)

that matters

(well, of course it "matters":
got to
have some thing to
put in play)


but rather the converse-action
itself that most counts: getting
better at it, and Good.

Small is beautiful.
Let IT be
"shrimp” then, so to speak, in all
its embodimental manifestation,
variation & diversity: let "shrimp"
be our Standing-For, standing for
the WHOLE & Parts Mystery: our
inter-connected deep eco-logical
& sacramental relationships;

We’ll see what a web it is
we weave when first we
practice to perceive.

xxxooo, Presbyter

2 comments:

  1. Dear Sam,
    I have read this blog for some time now after I took a course with you.

    This post has caused me to comment, because I heard about this conversation about the shrimp and I think its really interesting!

    T.O.S.T.

    Joshua Rosenberg

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  2. Josh,

    What's interesting is what we as
    faculty find to engage our thinking
    across the curriculum.

    Now that we have e-forum techno-
    capability to talk and think together & the possibility for ongoing accessible converse-action (I like to call it that--as opposed
    to all the other activism on campus), the possibility for
    something like collaborative genius becomes a reality.

    Do you think that's grandiose?

    Talk about shrimp, talk about
    Jeremiah Wright, talk about
    post-literate, neo-oral
    education in the 21st
    century... whatever.
    It doesn't take much
    to start a fire.

    Thanks for your comment.
    SS

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