Saturday, April 22, 2006

Zen and The Art of Zeninization

This, I thought was an interesting short piece on the trend of American Zen-izing of everything, (i.e. Zen and the art of vacuuming your floor maybe?), An Irreverent Look at Zen in America. I found it while doing a search for "Zen and the Art of Mothering" for our Mother's Day Service at Church.

About that church service, is it too much to ask grown people to plant a single seed and paint a rainbow to get in touch with their inner child? Would you run screaming from a building if someone asked you to get down and play? at church? Just play, even if there were no children around? (but there will be 3 children, they make up a small percentage of the group)

So, what do you think?

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Bookshelf

Shannon's currently-reading book montage

The Complete Poems
Collected Poems
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011
Anti-Bias Education for young children and ourselves
I Laugh So I Won't cry: kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives
How to Be Compassionate: a Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
Children
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections
The Secret Garden


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Shannon's read-in-2012 book montage

Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
Safari Animals
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's theory (early childhood education series
Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child
Clinical Supervision and Teacher Development


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