The Thinking Jar

I told my students yesterday to be cautious of doing such. Think about it -  When is a nudging meaningful and when is it a simple accident brought about by proximity? when is handflapping to "denote" a bird or when is it a self stim? when do we put too many words into actions and sounds that were not intended to mean anything.

perhaps we subconciously choose to put meanings we want to be there… 

read yourself again. "read what you wrote,"i said. read it and wonder if YOU got it; was your report faithful to what you really want to say?

i forgot to tell them to step back first, to stepback and look at it through lens that makes things looks farther, maybe fatter, a little lop-sided.

Reading

is good, of course. I’m an advocate. Then again, so is pacing, right, Lorenzo? And so is emptying the head, which children stop believing to be possible by the time they hit their decade-life crisis or so.

we read and we think and we mind. but a break from it all would be sensible, every now and then. to save our sanity and to keep us from being forced to go astray…. overreading is like putting words in one’s mouth, words wondering how (,through whose ears,) they wound up there. overeading puts thoughts in your head, thoughts that, they themselves, did  not intended to be there.

step back but think twice before completely pulling away… 

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