This section contains articles that have been organized around particular thematic clusters, various topics, and those that have not been categorized (i.e., stand-alone articles). These articles vary from more formal and academic in nature to informal and conversational.
THEMATIC CLUSTERS
- Introduction: From Circuitous Paths of Stuckness to Muddles of Meaning
by Jeff Bloom - Contexts of Learning: Part 1
by Jeff Bloom - Contexts of Learning: Part 2 - Paradoxes
by Jeff Bloom - Learning Together
by Jeff Bloom
more articles in this series are coming....
- How We Are Disconnecting from Ourselves, Others, and the World in Which We Live: Part 1 - An Introduction - by Jeff Bloom
- The Untimely Death of Integrity: The Revised & Extended Version (2024) - by Jeff Bloom
- How We Are Disconnecting from Ourselves, Others, and the World in Which We Live: Part 2: Patterns of Cognition - by Jeff Bloom
- How We Are Disconnecting from Ourselves, Others, and the World in Which We Live: Part 3: Five Contexts of Disconnection - by Jeff Bloom
Introduction & Table of Contents
Part 1 — Who Am I? Contexts and Identity
Part 2 -- Identity, Education, and Learning
Part 3 -- Psychological Violence Against Children in Schools
Part 4 — Double Binds, Fractures, & Schismogenesis in Relationships, Groups, & Communities
STAND-ALONE THEMATIC ARTICLES
"Democracy or What?"
by Jeff Bloom
CATEGORIES & TAGS: community, complexity, organizations, groups, politics, schooling, social issues
Teetering On the Precipice
by Jeff Bloom
CATEGORIES & TAGS:
economy, housing, society, Medieval Age, serfs, serfdom, hate, divisiveness, schooling, authoritarianism, corporatism, capitalism, working together
Exploring & Pondering the Quagmire of the Dis-United States
by Jeff Bloom
Can’t Write What I Really Want to Write — Have to Write About the Urgency of What’s Happening to Us —
by Jeff Bloom
Life In and Out of the Box OR Red Pill—Blue Pill?
by Jeff Bloom
By Jeff Bloom
A Shockingly Undemocratic Democratic Party Political Event: Arizona Democratic Congressman Greg Stanton’s Town Hall Meeting on March 19, 2025
by Jeff Bloom
CONTEMPLATIONS, REFLECTIONS, & RUMINATIONS
Day-by-day entries:
- DAY 0 - Introduction
- DAY 1 - The Stream
- DAY 2 - The Mesh
- DAY 3 - Shoes and Paths
- Day 4 - Are Plants Automatons? What about Me?
- Day 5 - The Storm of Individualism
- Day 6 - The Light of Creativity
- Day 7 - Grooving with Gravity
- Day 8 - Levels of Automaticity (or Freedom)
- Day 9 - Thinking about Thinking
- Day 10 - Desire for an Alternative Movement
- Day 11 - Where Is the Tree?
- Day 12 - Attention to Attention
- Day 13 - Scraping by without Meta-thinking
- Day 14 - Black Beetle Moon Night Gratitude
- Day 15 - The Braided Streams of Thinking
- Day 16 - Compressing Time with Imagery
- Day 17 - A Tree at Lyman Lake
- Day 18 - El Morro National Monument
- Day 19 - Bluewater Lake
- Day 20 - Visual Inventions of Light
- Day 21 - A Memory Excavated at Dittert Site
- Day 22 - Emotions Questioned
- Day 23 - Memory For All Time
- Day 24 - Three Weird Sisters
- Day 25 - Help
- Day 26 - Chipping Away
- Day 27 - The Evaluator
- Day 28 - Three Levels
- Day 29 - Awake in Night’s Thickness
- Day 30 - A Second Night of Meta-I
- Day 31 - Funeral
- Day 32 - Thoughts in Clusters
- Day 33 - The Ins & Outs of Whirlpools
- Day 34 - Learning Contentment
- Day 35 - The Indescribable
- Day 36 - One Humungous Whirlpool
- Day 37 - High-Sticking the Javelinas
- Day 38 - Animal Will
- Day 39 - Mind Viscous and Slow
- Day 40 - Trees Sway, Mind Mirrors
- Day 41 - The Unobtainable
- Day 42 - Full Moon at Bridge
- Day 42 - Seeking To Be a Better Seeker
- Day 44 - Proud of Breathing
- Day 45 - Ways to See a Frog
- Day 46 - Thinking Like a Lizard
- COMING NEXT:
- Day 46 - Vultures in Morning
by Tyler Volk
50 days of observations, insights, and
contemplations.
RATINGS:
Ed -- yeah, I'd vastly prefer not paying close attention to politics. I've always liked to keep up just enough…