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Fixing a Hole...: 11/10/2013 - 11/17/2013
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Just trying to get back into flow. Friday, November 15, 2013. A haiku for running. No earbuds for me. Heart and feet thump against city. Cadence for my prayers. Posted by Jonathan Kotinek. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Jonathan Kotinek is an educator with interests in giftedness and intelligence, race and culture, instruction and pedagogy, and Honors education. See my complete professional profile. Aggieland Beard and Moustache Club. And From Promise to Achievement. A haiku for running.
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Fixing a Hole...: 02/17/2013 - 02/24/2013
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Just trying to get back into flow. Wednesday, February 20, 2013. The following is a modified version of the comment I posted on Stephanie Tolan's. Post, " Are We Redefining the Wrong Word? There is so much that is. In this article that I don't know where to start. I'm so happy that the " Honors Education. Group on Facebook shared it and that I saw it. Is probably the best example I've seen of creating a term that understands giftedness as psychological difference (ala the Columbus Group definition. While...
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Fixing a Hole...: 03/08/2015 - 03/15/2015
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Just trying to get back into flow. Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Things I learned from running an ultramarathon (in which I admit my hubris). On Saturday, I ran 50 miles in the woods at Millican Reserve; first a 10K loop followed by three 25K loops. This was the inaugural ultramarathon put on by the folks at the BCS Marathon Series. Give yourself time/training is good. Trail races are very different from street races. Running is a team sport. Dill pickles taste great. Registering for a long race two weeks ahe...
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Fixing a Hole...: 08/05/2012 - 08/12/2012
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Just trying to get back into flow. Friday, August 10, 2012. Family Vacation - Summer 2012. Click here to view this photo book larger. Offer a variety of layouts and cover options to choose from. Posted by Jonathan Kotinek. Links to this post. Sunday, August 05, 2012. On Distributism and Orthodoxy. Modern American culture has become really adept at manufacturing desire. Has been discussing the topic. What is the opposite of a consumerist culture? Wendell Berry, writing in The Progressive. Berry is writing...
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Fixing a Hole...: 04/14/2013 - 04/21/2013
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Just trying to get back into flow. Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Ladder for Booker T. Washington. I have seen the Martin Puryear sculpture "Ladder for Booker T. Washington" several times at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Even spent a good deal of time contemplating the piece when I visited the museum with my infant son while my wife attended a professional conference. In a recent post contemplating the contradicitons of southern black folk art. Posted by Jonathan Kotinek. Links to this post. Fr James Ea...
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Fixing a Hole...: 06/22/2014 - 06/29/2014
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Just trying to get back into flow. Monday, June 23, 2014. Is Gifted Education Worth It? Who Should We Ask? Questions about the value of gifted education have seen a lot of recent attention in the news recently. This recent contribution to the conversation stands out for me because of the gaps in logic:. A few thoughts in response:. 1 Gifted doesn't just mean good at what they do or creative. The proliferation of definitions makes this difficult to discern, I understand. Next, a better piece might ask gif...
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Fixing a Hole...: TAMU Zoo?
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Just trying to get back into flow. Thursday, October 23, 2014. Today's news item describing PETA's request that Texas A&M stop using live elephants. For the annual Elephant Walk tradition reminded me of details of a pet project I've been mulling for a number of years: A zoo at Texas A&M University. In my notes, I have dubbed this dream project "The Texas A&M University Wildlife Habitat and Center for Conservation Science," but I should note that I have neither sought nor received any official buy-in.
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Fixing a Hole...: Injustice Anywhere
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Just trying to get back into flow. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. I am still trying to process and respond to the news that Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, was shot multiple times and killed Saturday in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, MO. I was in St. Louis at the time and didn't hear about the issue until I saw militarized police responding to unrest on the news while traveling home on Sunday. Truly, there are two Americas. Read the entire speech at. Http:/ www.gphistorical.org/mlk/mlkspeech/. Merely c...
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Fixing a Hole...: Is Gifted Education Worth It? Who Should We Ask?
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Just trying to get back into flow. Monday, June 23, 2014. Is Gifted Education Worth It? Who Should We Ask? Questions about the value of gifted education have seen a lot of recent attention in the news recently. This recent contribution to the conversation stands out for me because of the gaps in logic:. A few thoughts in response:. 1 Gifted doesn't just mean good at what they do or creative. The proliferation of definitions makes this difficult to discern, I understand. Next, a better piece might ask gif...
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Fixing a Hole...: Orthodox Localism
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Just trying to get back into flow. Saturday, August 02, 2014. The following advice is transcripted from Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick's The Transfiguration of Place: An Orthodox Christian Vision of Localism ( Part 1. As well as his discussion of "thin places"). In the second part I this talk, Fr. Andrew provides some concrete suggestions for Orthodox Localism:. 1 Buy local, especially food. 2 Attend the (canonical Orthodox) church closest to you. 3 Don't worry about having to "maintain" friendships. 17 Have ...