Brave New Whirls

Dear Colleagues,

For over 10 years, stalwart pioneering toward frontiers

still unknown—spamming Faulty L, assuming it a good

thing (the possibility of argument and disputation,

playing with ideas across the curriculum. braying

together, staying together,  gardening without tuxedos

our local food for thought) :  I confess to taking my puns

to town, so to speak.  Committing to Facebook as a touch-

type Hyde Park & virtual grove of Academe---e-dialogue

if not dialectic going on 24/7/365.

Amateurism.  For the love of it.  Liberal Art.

I’m not giving up on FacultyL as always containing

potential for our own St. John’s Type  intellectual

 environment, if not great books, the great ideas

contained in each of our disciplines.  Up for grabs.

But my hopes and fears of all the years are invested

in our social media inter-relationships which might

be said to compete somewhat with the referred

journals that currently characterize our professional

growth & non-perishable publications of faculty
development.

Efflorescence of Academics in the best sense:

social media cultivating &  elaborating the

significances  and meanings  us professionals

might tuck in to our course syllabi, protocol,

grades and  credit given  and the  educational

values that in the passed provide us and our

students with the life long gains that  distinguish

 us from  voc-tech  and community  colleges and

on-line MOOC opportunities with which we compete.

                    &&&&&&&&&&&&

To all my FB friends (& any colleagues) concerned with

exposing the flaws faults, shortcoming, incompetence,

greed, power-hunger injustice. discrepancies, myopia,

dishonesty, inconsistency if not incoherence, & bad

haircuts of mostly the Other Side of the Aisle: according

to a former student and now  Facebook activist: things

are getting better, they're getting better all the time:

"Our Intrepid Sovereignty as conscious  individuals is one

founding virtue, one primary key with  which the gates of

ancient Wisdom will be reopened into  a new awakening

unto Mankind: a reinvigoration of the perennial philosophy

of freedom combined with heightened intuitive perception

into the unseen worlds and their subtle yet cosmic influence

on day to day existence will come to  fruition within the

 human soul."