Bedrock & Paradox

I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

Conclusions

Changed the title to be more appropriate.

I have been accepted to the University of Montana, for real. The acceptance card will be in the mail this evening.

What a huge damn relief.

I even fixed up the SS, cut the steerer, and replaced the roasted rear tire. Accomplishments!

In short, and to keep adding to the original post below to avoid the indignity of three posts in one day: I’m relieved by it all. I don’t deal well with disorder in my life, and fixing one bike makes having the other non-functional easier to bear.

Back to the regular schedule:

The Times is gettin’ frisky. Sorta.

What I find of interest, and potentially disturbing, why do we as a culture fetishize sex before 25 so intensely? That seems to me the most unhealthy.

On an utterly unrelated note: Many of our students come in very behind in their schooling. Many have spent a lot of their school-time being that kid, and thus a lot of time being told how stupid they are by teachers and peers. I try to recorrect this.

We have a 16 year old native girl who came in last summer, having not yet completed eight grade. Her whilingness and ability was obvious from the beginning, and today, she passed her final exam for US Government (using a version of the same text I sweated over in 10th grade). That’s five years of social studies she’s done with us.

Makes it all worthwhile.

DaveC

8 responses to “Conclusions”

  1. Meredith Avatar
    Meredith

    Wow – I really can’t believe you posted that link… how does it contribute anything intelligent to the discussion???It had an obvious, yet sneaky, bent toward calling the Chastity Woman naive, which might be enjoyable and amusing to us – but certainly doesn’t show her much respect… and the entire article is a thinly veiled excuse to bash conservatives for being childish.If they had done that while also positing interesting ideas or even exposing the boring ones, that might have been another thing – but it really contributed little where it had the opportunity to do much.

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  2. Meredith Avatar
    Meredith

    Oh – and then it also supports the derogatory notion that men have this physical imperative and women neither miss nor need sex like men do…boring…

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  3. Enel Avatar
    Enel

    Initially I though Meredith was harsh….That was until page 3.Then I read the rest of the article. What the hell was that about? Gotta agree with most of what M said.Interesting findings:”Christy Gardner, an assistant professor at Wheaton College” I attended there at the same time as her. She was famous for being connected to her husband to be all the time. Literally never saw them apart.I thought it interesting that chastity girl had no idea that men and women indeed do indeed experience sexual urges differently.Finally, glad to hear about your learning experience on the rim ride. Failures will always teach you more. Good to learn, but move on as I can see you are doing.

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  4. Enel Avatar
    Enel

    When would you leave for school?I can think of few places more beautiful, (in summer).

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  5. Matt Avatar
    Matt

    We are all very proud of you Dave. Grad school is full of challenges and you will soon get the chance to work your mind like you have been working the body of late in these enduro events. It’s a perfect blend of mind and physical strength if you can keep the both of them going. In a perfect world I’d still study and then ride all day…..

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  6. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    Congrats on Montana. So how long is this program?

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  7. Dave Avatar
    Dave

    Class starts at the end of August. We’ll be staying here, me working most of the summer to make extra $$, until not too long before. 2 year program.

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  8. Ed Avatar
    Ed

    Yo Ion – congrats on getting accepted. Great riding with you and then seeing you disappear into the distance. I thought we’d be hiking Gold Bar together, you know in misery. Danged mechanical!Say hi to Chad and poor Max who must have ridden an extra 10 miles at least on that beater bike and still he beat me. He was very entertaining :-)Ed

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