Levi Pennington Writing to Mary and Cecil, June 2, 1946

Levi Pennington writing to Mary and Cecil talking about his schedule and various other things in the family. mentions thee progress he made in writing Simon Peter\u27s biography .https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/levi_pennington/1059/thumbnail.jp

Generalizing Anxiety

As she began reading the list of symptoms, I was making mental check marks next to the ones that applied to me. Fear of interacting with strangers- check. Fear that others will notice that you look anxious- check. Avoiding doing things or talking to people out of fear of embarrassment- check. Fear of situations in which you may be judged- check. Anxiety that disrupts your daily routine, work or school activities- check, check, check. [excerpt

Making Pictures

(What follows is adapted from a talk that Ted Estess, former Dean of the University of Houston Honors College, delivered at the college’s Convocation on August 29, 2013.) During the last week of my last semester in my last year in college, I took a course in aesthetics. David Miller was the teacher, and he required all of the students to make a presentation. I decided to work up a presentation on Picasso. I didn’t know much about Picasso, but of course that did not deter me. A word of advice to students: never let the fact that you do not altogether know what you are talking about keep you from talking. After all, not knowing what they are talking about does not stop your parents from talking, does it? And how do you think professors could possibly lecture for an entire semester without occasionally talking about things that they don’t know much about? Certainly they do not know all there is to know about all the things that they talk about

Making Pictures

During the last week of my last semester in my last year in college, I took a course in aesthetics. David Miller was the teacher, and he required all of the students to make a presentation. I decided to work up a presentation on Picasso. I didn’t know much about Picasso, but of course that did not deter me. A word of advice to students: never let the fact that you do not altogether know what you are talking about keep you from talking. After all, not knowing what they are talking about does not stop your parents from talking, does it? And how do you think professors could possibly lecture for an entire semester without occasionally talking about things that they don’t know much about? Certainly they do not know all there is to know about all the things that they talk about. In a university, you keep on talking precisely because your knowledge is partial, incomplete, provisional. That is perhaps the best way for you to learn what you don’t know, and learning some of what you don’t know is fifty percent of the reason to go to college in the first place. Learning that you don’t know is the other fifty percent. Socrates called that “learned ignorance.

Roundtable: Copyright Issues and Issues Beyond Copyright

"What we’ve decided to do as our format for this presentation is: we have a number of scenarios that people have suggested of things that have actually come across their desks in the course of doing what they do. And we thought we would just go through these quickly and talk about the issues that they raise—a sort of issue-spotting exercise—and try to offer some guidance about maybe how to deal with those issues as well. We’re going to start by talking about a number of things other than copyright. We’ve had a lot of discussion today about copyright and we may get to some more copyright here if we have time, but I’m going to start by talking about a number of noncopyright issues in the areas of privacy, defamation, things like that that very often come up in the context both of sound and audiovisual materials, but also in the case of text and photographs and so on.

The Inscrutable Other: A Review of Talking to Strangers

I believe that we could benefit from a healthy awareness of the limitations of our ability to perceive the inner workings and motivations of others. Posting about the book Talking to Strangers from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation. https://inallthings.org/the-inscrutable-other-a-review-of-talking-to-strangers

[Review of the book \u3ci\u3eInternational Labour Standards and Economic Interdependence\u3c/i\u3e]

[Excerpt] What can be done to raise the living standards of working people around the world? This collection of 29 essays focuses on an issue currently in the air: the setting of international labor standards. Although the writers come from every continent and represent employers, workers, government, and academia, virtually all favor international labor standards. One should perhaps not be too surprised by this agreement, given that the volume is published under the auspices of the International Institute for Labour Studies, a sister organization of the ILO. Things get interesting when the authors stop lamenting how tough conditions are for workers in today\u27s economically interdependent world and start talking specifically about what can and should be done

Time Flies...

We had another important EPiC meeting yesterday afternoon. Beforehand, Meggan told me to prepare some materials so that I could update the rest of the Committee on the status of my projects. I can’t believe it’s the middle of July already! My internship seems to just be flying by. One of the things we discussed at our meeting, actually, was how it was almost time to put up the rest of the exhibits. Scary thought! I know my 1860 Election exhibit is just about ready, but I can’t help but feel that there’s so much more research I can do and so much more fine-tuning. It’s probably the perfectionist in me talking. [excerpt