Comments for The Blue Room http://theblueroomblog.org ...a space for beauty, ideas, creativity, and the life of the Spirit Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:07:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Internet Kills Community! Except When It Doesn’t by MaryAnn http://theblueroomblog.org/2012/02/22/the-internet-kills-community-except-when-it-doesnt/#comment-3068 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:07:52 +0000 http://theblueroomblog.org/?p=1807#comment-3068 I’ve heard anecdotal evidence that we’re starting to see a backlash against social media in young people.

]]> Comment on The Internet Kills Community! Except When It Doesn’t by Robert Braxton http://theblueroomblog.org/2012/02/22/the-internet-kills-community-except-when-it-doesnt/#comment-3067 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:03:50 +0000 http://theblueroomblog.org/?p=1807#comment-3067 In “The Graduate” the one word to Benjamin was “plastics.” Mine for this context is “pheromones” ( which can … produce changes in an animal’s physiology, spurring the onset of puberty or bringing on estrus. ) The generation, to be “next,” will (re-)connect with real fleshy people right there.

]]> Comment on The Internet Kills Community! Except When It Doesn’t by JennaHack http://theblueroomblog.org/2012/02/22/the-internet-kills-community-except-when-it-doesnt/#comment-3058 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:53:36 +0000 http://theblueroomblog.org/?p=1807#comment-3058 I love this. “Setting aside these gadgets is the first step to reconnecting with the real fleshy people right there with us.” I totally agree that you can have meaningful community online, but that doesn’t negate the fact that there are people around everyday. I’m curious to see how the upcoming generation “does” community. Will they stay in the online world they’ve grown up with, or will they reach out for something closer?

]]> Comment on The Internet Kills Community! Except When It Doesn’t by MaryAnn http://theblueroomblog.org/2012/02/22/the-internet-kills-community-except-when-it-doesnt/#comment-3050 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:27:43 +0000 http://theblueroomblog.org/?p=1807#comment-3050 I’m thankful for your involvement in your community, and sad beyond words for your wife.
I’m about to drop from exhaustion right now, but I know the major things I’m working on will end soon.

]]> Comment on The Internet Kills Community! Except When It Doesn’t by Keith Snyder http://theblueroomblog.org/2012/02/22/the-internet-kills-community-except-when-it-doesnt/#comment-3049 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:09:45 +0000 http://theblueroomblog.org/?p=1807#comment-3049 I’m reading this after returning from a foot patrol of Northern Manhattan with two NYPD officers and several residents, which was organized online.

Simultaneously, my wife is about to drop from exhaustion at her desk in the dining room, where she can’t disconnect on weekends (or any other time) without losing her income.

Neither of these observations is in support of any particular thesis. They’re just the angles I’m reading from.

]]> Comment on Update on the Memory Project by Robert Braxton http://theblueroomblog.org/2012/02/22/update-on-the-memory-project/#comment-3047 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:12:15 +0000 http://theblueroomblog.org/?p=1800#comment-3047 The discipline is more than worth it. God willing, should you reach grandparenting stage, you may have a golden opportunity. The news “you all will become grandparents” was so overwhelming to me, there was but one way to “deal with” the news: writing – thus began my first “grandparenting journal” around Thanksgiving the year (2006) before July birth. Now there are two (likewise the second begun with pregnancy news) and now even a THIRD (called “Third Life” which is marital relationship beginning with retirement first day of September. As a parent this began for me when one offspring was in seventh grade and asked one day (when I brought in the snail mail) “is there any mail for me today” and I realized that I could write TO the “child” years before college (during which I continued my practice, writing actual letters and mailing with actual postage). For me the opportunity is one page each (no more) per day with many days left undone. Never at a loss for “what to write” because my observations are so detailed: Magna Gerber is my heroine: Wait, Observe, Enjoy – the role of an infant’s EduCarer that I cherish. Great encouragement your way.

]]> Comment on Update on the Memory Project by susan http://theblueroomblog.org/2012/02/22/update-on-the-memory-project/#comment-3045 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:02:29 +0000 http://theblueroomblog.org/?p=1800#comment-3045 Ted said what I would have said. Maybe the answer is to just write in one kid’s book per day, and if there’s nothing to say, there’s nothing to say.

]]> Comment on Update on the Memory Project by Ted Fulmer http://theblueroomblog.org/2012/02/22/update-on-the-memory-project/#comment-3044 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:48:03 +0000 http://theblueroomblog.org/?p=1800#comment-3044 regarding ‘parity’ – A kid in school has more going on than a kid in preschool. Also the oldest will leave for college someday and then you’ll struggle to maintain parity from the other direction.

]]> Comment on The Memory Project by Update on the Memory Project « The Blue Room http://theblueroomblog.org/2011/09/08/the-memory-project/#comment-3043 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:36:45 +0000 http://theblueroomblog.org/?p=1433#comment-3043 [...] the kids in individual journals, one sentence per day. You can read about the project and rationale here. Since there were quite a few people who were interested in the practice, I thought I’d [...]

]]> Comment on Lent: You’re Probably Doing It Wrong by 58 – Lent | the hack's burgh blog http://theblueroomblog.org/2011/03/31/lent-youre-probably-doing-it-wrong/#comment-3042 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:42:35 +0000 http://theblueroomblog.org/?p=946#comment-3042 [...] I just found the above image on The Blue Room Blog and, first off, I love her post about Lent that I linked.  Go check it out if you’d [...]

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