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Christin Chong, PhD's avatar

Wow excellent job featuring students :D

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Ronald Johnson's avatar

Thanks for taking the time to write this post and for sharing.

1) Being transformed by beauty and delighting in beautiful things will ignite the artist in me. To see the works of others not merely as books or minds as collections of thought but more as human galaxies to explore. I try to view my mind as a literal universe - twirling with planets of ideas waiting to be discovered and read with all its uniqueness. Even if no one reads my writing, I can still delight in my own work - simply being. For there are many galaxies that human eyes will never see but are nevertheless majestic and full of glory. I may not be as famous as Rowling or as skilled as Stephen King, but I’m still beautifully and wonderfully made like a galaxy.

2) Ivan Illich and LM Sacasas inspire me. I try to memorize and reflect upon their works. I put them in my mind like one puts stars in the sky, not just to consume and be filled with information but to lie down, to look up and adore them like the vision of a starry sky.

3) I want to move people to see with a different set of eyes. I want them to see knowledge as living as trees. I want them to see Books with a capital B sing like birds, articles that gush like fountains, and words that glow like fireflies. When we embody reality - it is diverse and unified as the world we inhabit. Knowledge is not cold and abstract - it should be stored in our mind as treasure and not merely info.

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