"All things come to those who learn how to wait"...

"All things come to those who learn how to wait"...

Naaah, usually challenging, but it seems this is the way all reality is.  My desires would push for change, necessary, immediate. Reality though, and the laws of science, both natural and social, require that we all work through its pace.

Here's a good prayer from an admired social scientist from one of my Philosophy classes in college, whom I discovered in working with the companions, is a Jesuit.  Although the church kept him quiet for the things he wrote, and he obediently submitted.

Patient Trust

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
     to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something
     unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
     that it is made by passing through
     some stages of instability—
     and that it may take a very long time.

And so I think it is with you;
     your ideas mature gradually—let them grow,
     let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
     as though you could be today what time
     (that is to say, grace and circumstances
     acting on your own good will)
     will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say what this new spirit
     gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
     that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
     in suspense and incomplete.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ

Music from our roots...

Simple & sweet GROUPS acronym

Rules for Grouping

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JULIAN & AIMER

While growing up, these boys were enjoying babyhood.  Looking back, it only seemed like yesterday when they would blabber words. Now, they are as articulate and persuasive as any kid their age - best part is, they do that in fluent English.

Next part is to learn how to do so in Chinese, for 21st century purposes.

The Future of Education - School in the Cloud

This is the man behind Slumdog Millionaire.  Self Organized Learning Environments, that's his wish.  a lot of promise there especially to a world where majority are poor.  It appears as supra class but has a lot of sense.  If V.I.L. is to be remembered, I think he said something like revolutionary theory precedes all revolutionary movements.  genuine change may as well be hastened by access to progressive ideas.  take the case of the reform movement during the spanish colonization, ideas of the the french rev were what inspired bonifacio and the ilustrados.

Gregorian chant at its best.

though the words are foreign, the music is well understood.

The Ingredients for Extremely High Achievement

TRUE GRIT

Talent + Passion + Hardwork
*being in an uncomfortable place, working hard on a weakness
*10 yr rule - spending time on deliberate practice to master a skill