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Friday, 13 May 05 :: bits and pieces

i'm getting bits and pieces of this stuff here and there. this h.o.n. stuff. all the different stuff i'm feeling, how it all fits within the context of being at the workshop last weekend.

am i a different person? no. but i discovered a new way of being that i liked, a lot, and i don't want to let it go. out here, where people aren't that way, its hard to keep a hold of the lessons i learned last weekend. its hard to keep hold of being in this new way.

yeah, i like living with an open heart. i'm a lot nicer, a lot less judgemental, a lot more giving. i don't want my heart to harden as i face the stresses of daily life. i want to keep it soft, the breadloaf with the soft crust that i talked about, not the soft-mushy inside with a shell like rock.

posted by brooke at May 13, 2005 06:51 PM

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Me too.

posted by: chasmyn at May 15, 2005 02:55 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.