tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post7494825438008117296..comments2023-10-15T10:29:12.991+01:00Comments on Karyn's erratic learning journey: Unfinished symphoniesThe upsychohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06345558899662051670noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-72931695874958520792009-09-17T19:59:39.444+01:002009-09-17T19:59:39.444+01:00@Dave Yup. Cos when it arrives, it will announce i...@Dave Yup. Cos when it arrives, it will announce itself loud and clear! ;o)The upsychohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06345558899662051670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-71377061300317466512009-09-17T19:46:32.275+01:002009-09-17T19:46:32.275+01:00Your post brought to mind a joke we use in my fami...Your post brought to mind a joke we use in my family: my parents have gotten so old, they no longer buy green bananas.<br /><br />There's a half-remembered story of someone writing to an advice column; he was considering going to med school, but given his age, "in seven years, when I get out, I'll be 38."<br /><br />To which the columnist replied, "And if you <i>don't</i> go to med school, how old will you be in seven years?"<br /><br />If we listen hard enough at any stage of life, we can like <a href="http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm" rel="nofollow">Andrew Marvell</a> hear time's wingèd chariot hurrying near.<br /><br />What we don't know is when it'll arrive (or run us down). We don't need to spend too many days looking to see if it's at the door.Dave Fergusonhttp://daveswhiteboard.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-38215072346269077482009-09-04T17:53:42.530+01:002009-09-04T17:53:42.530+01:00@Virginia Woohoo! You go girl! 50 is just a number...@Virginia Woohoo! You go girl! 50 is just a number, after all. Why should it be the cut off point for anything? And on your 50th birthday, you will only be a day older than you were the day before. You can <b>do</b> this. You <b>can</b> do this.The upsychohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06345558899662051670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-42665803874866291362009-09-04T17:23:39.387+01:002009-09-04T17:23:39.387+01:00As I am leading up to my 50th birthday, I have bee...As I am leading up to my 50th birthday, I have been getting more and more disillusioned as I had set a goal to FINALLY get my Ph.d. by the time I'm 50. Well, it's not going to happen as I am still analyzing data. <br /><br />However, I have not been working on it as I should as I realized that it was not going to happen. Then I read your post and you have motivated me to keep pushing on. So what if I don't finish it this year? I have next year and a lot more ideas waiting after I complete my degree!V Yonkershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11910904367068063554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-36771131335508480492009-08-30T15:06:10.062+01:002009-08-30T15:06:10.062+01:00I remember those letters from America! We used to ...I remember those letters from America! We used to hear them in South Africa. I loved the way he used to see things, and the way he chose his words so skillfully. I was quite bereft when he retired, and when his death followed so soon afterwards, I assumed it had been that that had caused him to retire.The upsychohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06345558899662051670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-76303473160791762262009-08-30T11:18:25.490+01:002009-08-30T11:18:25.490+01:00Kia ora e Karyn!
A great writer, who journeyed hi...Kia ora e Karyn!<br /><br />A great writer, who journeyed his way through more than half of the 20th century, was still journeying in 2004. He had been advised many times by his doctor to retire, but he would not.<br /><br />His relentless authorship continued till 20 Febuary 2004 when he wrote his last radio broadcast and announced it as such, having given in to his practitioner's advice. He died the following month.<br /><br />That man was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_Cooke" rel="nofollow">Alistair Cooke</a>, whose 'Letter from America' was broadcast regularly for 58 years.<br /><br />Catchya laterBlogger In Middle-earthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08722634477041121797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-38012854465177622382009-08-28T08:59:54.060+01:002009-08-28T08:59:54.060+01:00@Barry Good on yer. Why not give it a go? And you ...@Barry Good on yer. Why not give it a go? And you are so right, why is it about the completion? I think this may be something inculcated into us by our results-focused education system. The process, the learning, the journey has got to be worth something.<br /><br />Oddly enough, I find myself remembering the speech I made on my 21st birthday. What I said then was so closely related to the last two paras of my post.<br /><br />Sometimes my younger self showed more sense than I gave her credit for!The upsychohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06345558899662051670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14184878.post-35294986278788036212009-08-27T18:48:42.095+01:002009-08-27T18:48:42.095+01:00As is so often the case with your blog, I read a p...As is so often the case with your blog, I read a post and find I have been having similar thoughts. <br /><br />Last weekend I went to the airshow at Bournemouth, and just like at many airshows before, I found myself thinking 'I wish I could do that'. But like many others I'm sure, I have these thoughts and then they pass. But not this time. <br /><br />No, this time I kept asking myself - why not? So this morning I booked my first flying lesson, which weather permitting will be next Friday morning.<br /><br />So what happens if I don't do another lesson, or start lessons but don't complete them? Does it matter? I will have seen things, done things, been places, met people and learned things that otherwise I wouldn't have done. <br /><br />It's a shame that so often when we consider learning (to fly, to drive, to run, to do anything) that the perceived value is in the completion instead of the journey.<br /><br />They say life is a series of lessons, so I guess it's your own choice; treat it like school and let someone else set the curriculum for you, or go write your own.Barry Sampsonhttp://barrysampson.comnoreply@blogger.com