The Oldest University of America

This Wikipedia "Conversation" solves a lot of problems about the controversy on which is the oldest University of America and why.

The oldest university of America controversy

Well, I love the page, and I am living in New York for so long, preaching about that San Marcos is the oldest Univ. but having to deal with many, many people especially with the Dominicans, who claim the contrary, I have almost believed them. Well good arguments and facts now I have more "ammunition" to defend my position.

I am taking this opportunity to ask for your collaboration, with our entries and mostly with our "National Page", which I believe is locked or protected, and thus you have to get into the 'bureaucracy' to get in and finally edit it. I just came here so you may have a better chance for doing it so. Assuming that you are Peruvians, have time and want to do it in the first place. Like this page there are other many entries about our country Perú which needs our help, if we don't do it, who will then?

Many entries needs help, I am starting to work in several languages, but in here, in English, we are kind of messy, except for your page of course; for instance read how is written and what they are saying about our history in our own page. I think it needs more work, if we compare it with others pages then we know is true. Well see your contribs. You will start to see mine as well. thanks and Good Luck!! and sorry for use some of this space. Hope I didn't intrude. Last time if I did it so " arriba, arriba hasta las estrellas... en Wikipedia?". UserUser: 2007

The Follow up:

• The Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (Autonomous University of Santo Domingo) was founded in 1914, not in 1538. This university, in current Dominican Republic, expects to be a “primatial university of America” in spite of the fact that it holds, against every Latin American legislation of the time, a foundation illegally authorised by the Pope in 1538; it has been officially recognised by the monarchy just in 1747 like "Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino"; it has been prohibited by Royal Letter of 1758 the use of that false title insulting universities of Lima and Mexico. As if it were not enough, the Santo Tomás University was definitively extinguished in 1824, having no relationships with the current one (founded in 1914), because it is a new and different institution that seeks to recover for itself its colonial predecessor's history. The Universidad de San Marcos (San Marcos University) of Lima was also, and continue being, the oldest university in the world out of the European continent, founded on 12th May 1551, and for this reason it takes the deserved title of “dean of America” (the oldest, not necessarily the first), since it is the only university that survives, uninterruptedly, since the XVIth century. (Miguel Angel del Castillo M., 29-VIII-07)
  • http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Lista_de_universidades_y_similares_en_Am%C3%A9rica_latina%2C_anteriores_a_1810
  • http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discusi%C3%B3n:Universidad_Nacional_Mayor_de_San_Marcos

Our Scientific knowledge is Semantic but also is Vedic in Nature

The Semantic Browser Based on Wikipedia

Powerset Demo Video from officialpowerset on Vimeo.

The Machine is US

The Easy Way to Learn How to Code & Design Web sites

Understanding Harmony

Cross Cutural Analysis - The Law and The Reality - Perspective of a Congresist from Peru

The " Contamanina" : The Ecology of the Peruvian Music

Filling Your Car's tank with 1.10 a Galon

The SCRUM of the SCRUMS

Pain in Oils and Oils in Canvas

If you believe in forgiveness, if you believe in something greater than you. Remember nobody is perfect, we are all in here, perhaps we believe that the color of our skin is important or that our culture is superior, with this we go imposing things on people. Let me tell you... time will show you otherwise.


Van Gogh and Gauguin understood what art is really about, and Picasso and Dalí et al., successfully learned how to exploit it well. I still admire all of them, though.

However, I admire Van Gogh the most because he painted in faith, with faith and for faith, after his experiences with those "ministries" for poverty.

Paul Gauguin, on the other hand, was able to leave behind him the European-centric vision and understood and painted other "skins" under beautiful inquiries. Martinique was and inspiration for him, and he put everything behind, i.e., money, power, politics and family, notwithstanding, he still is who he is... Pain, and suffering seem to be inevitable ... can you share it without imposing it?

I will come back to this comments, in the mean time I will play with a simpleton yo-yo.

Be connected, Live connected. Life is connections.

Well as I have been informed lately,a lot of people has concentrated in this image since I have posted in one social sharing sites, then, I need to explain one thing. I created it long time ago. thinking on how our lives has changed because the Internet.
Now, from my point of view, life is all connected. But the guy in the image is obviously isolated.

I don't think anyone wants to be connected in real life with him. It has become an "it". Therefore, the "it" goes over the web 2.0 and X.0s social spaces just to be reconnected somehow with people. His social life has all gone. Do you really want to connect with it? I don't think so.

Therefore, the real friends, those who you have grown and you are growing up with, those are your real connections keep them close to you. Help them grow, but not at your expense of course, and yes be an individual with perhaps few connections but all of them meaningful and healthy in your life. In the future you will find out who was a genuine friend and what is real friendship.

Therefore, having a web presence is important but not as much as enjoying the simple things and challenges that a normal life has to offer. Like drink a milkshake or just watch a sunset, it is never the same... every sunset is unique as everyone in this planet is.

Well, that is my interpretation though, you can make up your own.

Obamatomy

A Deviant Recipe for Artists or How to boost your Creativity

I need to keep redoing this at all the time, Should I share it with you?:‼☺☻☺‼

SCAMPER Some Deviant Behaviors

☼ Substitute ♪
☼ Combine ♪♫
♪ Adapt ☼►◙♪♫
↕ Modify ► magnify ◄ minify☺
☻ Put to other uses ♥♣♦○
◘ Elaborate
¶ Rearrange ♀ reverse ◄ ªa ► rethink

PLUS

"Relearn again and forget, then go back to your child vision" Avoid part or all on this formula ► {POV²+POM+POB}:


Looking throughout single points of View or using one single Color of Glasses, one size telescopes, 1x microscopes, one sided spectroscopy, forgetting to use your natural X Ray vision and your CAT Scanner::meaning your imagination, instincts and guts

√ POV = Avoid Singular Persistence of Vision or partial ½╟╜ visions.
√ POV = Avoid Singular Point of View ► Fanaticism

POM = Persistence of Memory (ies) ► Live in the present using the past for the future

Avoid Persistence and obsessive behaviors of unkindness, cruelty, cynicism, ill-intentioned or nonsense moods. Look for meaning or provide the context in which meaningful things could be developed, either by you or with/by others.

Avoid envious feelings, it will drain you, drive you crazy and it will "dry" or "Fry" most of your dreams, aspirations and goals. Remain human and follow your inner nature, this nature should be positive and constructive , but otherwise then you know what you have to do with it...

Do not avoid to be alone, but by all means enjoy the company of your fellow artists, those who where behind you, those who are coexisting with you, and those who are becoming or will come after you. Live the tree tenses or times, Past, Present and Future and the many complex variations thereof.

Moreover, everything that you do or say onto others is a boomerang, it will come back to you, but for this do not avoid conflict, slavery is the rewards of those that do just this. If the prison were made out of gold, it is still a prison, artists hate prisons, oppression or injustice, because to be free you need to remain ethical and well balance (there are many flavors of what is balance or what it means, it could be harmony, think in here on your own music and how it sounds when you play it for others. It is for the most part a maturity and evolving process within each life cycle at every effort, project or piece of work that you do or want to do::Therefore, envision the circumstance, it might be bigger than your perception, and much bigger than your imagination, then enhance your existence by acknowledging more of it).

However, for most of the artists freedom is their main source of inspiration, if they were prisoned because their ideals or art, then they would be evenly freer than before. Artist will remain independent not matter what. Art is intrinsically motivated and extrinsically activated, but you draw and paint the mere buttons that ignite your own fantasies and/or imaginations or disgrace and/or lamentations.

In conclusion, give and share and you will receive ...the same, perhaps it might be more or might be less, don't worry about receiving, just share, provide, support, empathize, contemplate, absorb, produce, mutate, do, even if you can't, do a little more, then enjoy it or better continue with another piece, perhaps you will find out that it is you what you are building from the scratch of your most deeper and inner self.

Finally, I hope that it is Creativity what you are about to select for your life and in every case anyway be one more element why our society triumphs; as it is known by now already as the most innovative society in all generations:: the artists society.

As for my humble case I just keep remembering the aforementioned thoughts...

Jimi Hendrix: The Eternal Experience from Last Century

All along the WatchTower
There are many versions out there: I Like to watch this two

In Black and White:


The talent of the 60s

In Color;



..and Another Performance



One of the earliest Video on Hendrix



1967-02-25



Last century music that still echoes our future:

The Metasemantic Web - Part 1- The Mere Particles of Meaning: The Application of Morphogenesis into Project and Product Management

What I want to understand is up to what extent the most effective human collaboration could be obtained or increased by applying simple rules of behavior molded within virtual worlds under one predetermined goal or set of goals. Such as learning and its immediate application to action or for solving pervasive problems or mastering a subject or art.

The word should be Metabehavior, perhaps because I am interested on the behaviors that mold or determined other desire behaviors, all this includes seen people both, as part of the instrumentation for building metasemantic systems, and as recipients of it as well. Therefore it begins with the humans and loops back to them as well. In other words, the developers become users whereas some users could become developers too.

Only that the goal or the project could be extrinsically or spontaneously sponsored to group and systematized human minds, as connecting the dots, such as each dot is a mind that could decided whether or not to be grouped under certain endeavors. This is being done by perusing any collaborative systems of the Web 2.0 type and greater, such as those wikis for example, these are not other than a set of linked behaviors associated, organized and systematized by human intelligence or cultural bias [or mostly by a combination of both adding some emotional stupidity or nonsense] under one most often, or originally, altruistic and compelling reason.

It is like the "wikiconomization", or the "wikibalization" of the self, only that is not only the prefix wiki in all of the "flora" or phenomena, it is a matter of fact a wiki is just a rustic and small possibility of it, Youtube is another possibility for example as they are many of the sorts and They are others constantly appearing all over the cyberscape.

The fruits of such still-Human-Cognitive-Emotional-behavioral-semantic fields & the knowledge and information management systems are becoming to show [us] their wonders and now more and more this collaborative tools are often use by corporations as for individuals [for very different reason though], such are the Mash-ups and et al.,

What I believe is happening is that humans are in the process of creating the metasemantic web instead, the many consciousnesses of the entire human experience so far. Well, some people are trying to include one sided view of the schema, and here politics came into place, I will leave it as that at this point.

The Flat world 3.0 of Friedman can be greener as he wishes to be, but it involves communities made out of individuals, many individuals that are joined now by a simple set of rules throughout and whereby they can achieve their desired goals, and satisfy their needs for freedom, self-expression and self-concept, some individuals participate for constructive reasons and still others for destructive or for no other reason than their "magnetized" behavior towards something greater than them, just to belong to something, or to find the meaning for their empty lives by following a sympathetic determined swarmed website.

It is the interconnectivity of the Web and the software-as-a-Services [SaaS] that is causing these individuals to interact and create their avatars, their existential sense, as more products, services and fortunately some solutions are being found some of those virtual communities .... also they are serving as a way to share and challenge cultural differences.

These services are giving power to people for achieving something [apparently useful to them] and in this context these services are seemed like a memesis or as the mere particles of meaning, these SaaS are molding behaviors and could instantiate not only information but also surprisingly meaningful relationships... It seems that endless possibilities can be found out there...

In the mean time let us examine our lives too, perhaps we could find as Pygmalion or like Narcissus did, that ours is evenly more illusive than theirs ... all the way while we are thinking that we are doing "no evil". I will continue seeking and investigating... Too much to be learned over this regard

Now let's watch this video:




It will continue...

Tribute to the creator of the Chicken Dance will never pass away

Let us Dance in the honor in Bob Kames:

The Last Lecture - Knowing how to die

In case you didn't watch it here.

The Faces of Art

This video has some of the most beautiful paintings ever painted.

Leonardo's Face

Siegfried Woldhek explains very clearly his theory about Leonardo Da Vinci's Face. Good Video.





If you want to know more about the work of Mr. Woldhek, here is his Blog click here

La Peruanización de Chile - Peruvianization of Chile

The Truth Behind the Pisco - La Verdad sobre el Pisco. En este video se ve claro de dónde realmente es el Pisco. [Videos in Spanish]

Primera Parte



Segunda Parte

Should humans be a part of the future. The Humans & Machines or Only Machines

Wired Magazine published an article, "Why the Future Does Not Need Us" written by Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and who supported the creation of the JAVA language and basically developed the BSD Unix flavor. Well I think that the British Professor Kevin Warwick, the "Cyborg" as it seems he would like to be known, has the answer for Joy's question, watch his video.

Wake up America!

The song of the Plow - La canción del Arado

Inti Illimani una agrupación Musical Universal ,

Inti Illimany is an Universal Musical group whose many songs are based on tradional Peruvian music,

Mayor información-Read more in here http://encontrarte.aporrea.org/media/67/inti%20illimani.pdf

Juan Salvador Gaviota

Just readt the book or even better listen it

Solamente lee el libro o escuchalo

http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=7892df0

Peruano o Español o Inca

* Lo del Rey hay que darselo a él. Los que nacieron en la colonia eran españoles, salvo aquellos que se identificaron en no serlo, se puede argumentar, pero para qué. En el New York Times, lo ven así, y la mayoría en el mundo lo ve así.

::♀ Por ejemplo, una idea, Gonzalo Pizarro, nacido en España, podríamos decir que fue uno de los primeros peruanos, porque se revela contra la corona española y muere en lo que ahora es nuestro territorio. Los Incas, no eran peruanos eran incas, i.e., '''Quechuas, y Aymarás'''.

::♀ Ser del Cuzco es ser peruano pero también es serlo si eres de cualquier otro sitio y te identificas como tal. Los pre-Incas o las culturas llamadas Pre-colombinas, támpoco eran Incas, támpoco eran Peruanas, eran lo que eran, enclicopédicamente hablando.

::♀ Interpretar es vital, inclusive el Maestro José Carlos Mariátegui, parece que se equivocó, al tratar el "problema del indio". No hay indios en el Perú, Nunca los hubo, la equivocación es de Colón y historícamente y socialmente es importante. Por ejemplo, Por qué no le llamamos eskimos a los árabes, en fin.

::♀ Hay andinos en todo caso, gente originaria de aquellos pueblos que "adornan" lo que ahora proponemos como nuestra historia. Sin embargo, sí tenemos historia propia, gastronomía original, y parece que tenemos mucho de españoles, pero también mucho de los Incas y de los pre-Incas. He ahí nuestro ¡gran tesoro! El Dorado está en todas aquellas culturas Pre-peruanas, muy mal entendidas por propios y extraños, por muchos envidiadas y apedradas por otros tantos. Pero hay también especialistas que darían la vida por entenderlas y aprender más de ellas.

::♀ Muchachos, come me alegra que tengan ese incentivo por aprender y por sacar a la luz de esas sombras retrógradas las verdaderas fuentes de nuestra historia. Siendo realista hay que estar orgulloso de ser Peruano; ya uno sea del Cuzco o de los Barracones; e igual da ser de la Molina o de Miraflores, que del Rímac, de Ciudad y Campo.

::♀ La humanidad está en aprender a ser mejor cada día, de los que como acá en este mundo quieren y buscan conocimiento y por eso saben las limitaciones que esta búsqueda contrae.

::♀ Felicitaciones, el Perú luce mejor, pero como sabemos falta más ... como decia César Vallejo: "Ya va venir el día ponte el alma ..."

::♀ Bueno, del poco tiempo que tengo y que me queda, pues ya algo del resto lo compartí, lo comparto y lo compartiré con todos ustedes, Sinceramente.

PD. Por un si acaso, yo nada impongo, solamente expongo sean ustedes los peruanistas del futuro que hagan virtual y realmente una vida mejor.

OCLC lists

clipped from www.oclc.org

What cartoons made it to OCLC's Top 1000 list?

What was the 1001st item?
Ecclesiastical History, by Eusebius.

• Garfield, by Jim Davis (ranked 15)


• Peanuts, by Charles Schulz (ranked 69)


• Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson (ranked 77)


• Doonesbury, by Garry Trudeau (ranked 88)


• Far Side, by Gary Larson (ranked 115)


• Dilbert, by Scott Adams (ranked 399)


• Fox Trot, by Bill Amend (ranked 773)

How old are the works on the Top 1000 List? When were they written?

What languages were these works originally written in?

Of the items on the OCLC list, 13 appear on at least 4 other lists:

Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck (ranked 101 on the OCLC list)

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (ranked 527)

Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (ranked 253)

Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt (ranked 416)

Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh (ranked 653)

Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger (ranked 347)

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (ranked 215)

Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (ranked 110)

Stallman on Freedom

Richard Stallman gives his interpretation of the four basic freedoms and describes the reasons that propel his activism in pro of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project. He is the Jeremy Bentham of our Era.

Freedom

graphic by Susan Henson
Fellow Americans, you may wish to copy this icon to your own page, as a way of showing what patriotism means to you.

Una definición en la computación

Esta definición se la di al hijo de un amigo, él cual cursa los primeros años de educación universitaria, en un programa de ingeniería de sistemas. Le gustó tanto que nos propusimos verla en Wikipedia, bueno la pusimos en la enciclopedia, y dice así:

Una computadora (del latín computare -calcular-), también denominada como ordenador o computador, tiene como meta principal, la de recibir y procesar datos para convertirlos en información útil. Una computadora es una colección de circuitos integrados y otros componentes relacionados que puede ejecutar con exactitud, sorprendente rapidez, y de acuerdo a lo indicado por un usuario o automáticamente por otro programa, una múltiple variedad de secuencias o rutinas de instrucciones que son ordenadas, organizadas y sistematizadas en función a una amplia gama de aplicaciones prácticas y precisamente determinadas, proceso al cual se le ha denominado con el nombre de programación y al que lo realiza se le llama programador. La computadora u ordenador, además de la rutina o programa informático, necesita de datos específicos (a estos datos, en conjunto, se les conoce como "Input" en inglés) que deben ser suministrados, y que son requeridos al momento de la ejecución, para proporcionar el producto final del procesamiento de datos, que recibe el nombre de "output". La información puede ser entonces utilizada, reinterpretada, copiada, transferida, o retransmitida a otra(s) persona(s), computadora(s) o componente(s) electrónico(s) local o remotamente usando diferentes sistemas de telecomunicación, pudiendo ser grabada, salvada o almacenada en algún tipo de dispositivo o unidad de almacenamiento.

Nubes Rocosas

John M. Kennedy

[1]

¡Acabo de recibir tal impacto!

que hizo explotar mi corazón como un cristal

en cientos de miles de millones de pedazos.

Fue tal la gravedad de aquel dolor

que estos mismos pedazos me descompusieron

en miles de millones de trillones de partículas.

Me sentí como la mera sustancia de la sustancia vivída,

y es la hora en que se están escondiendo en mis memorias

apareciéndose esparcidas por unas 140 billones de galaxias.

Soy como la parte que no encaja en esta singularidad enferma

No hay dimensiones cuando no hay sinceras emociones

Cómo pudiera sentir ser nada dentro de lo que es menos que la nada.

Porque ya fui destrozado y aniquilado a golpes

desde mis abismos más ignotos e internos 

pasé por ser cada uno de mis egos pero ya no sé quién soy

Me perdí entre tantos y tontos misérrimos látidos.

Al caído, le volvieron nuevamente a caer todos y con todo

Se les unieron las desgracias, las ojeras, y las tormentas,

Le dieron una lección brava a este barro sangriento y malherido,
 

Hasta su propio amor le pegó una sentencia a capella

Usaron el odio más intenso, las noticias más estúpidas 

¡Qué duro son los medios! para darme así al unísono,

Hay más allá de cualquier rincón otro dolor que deberá de ser peor

el mío ya se quedó estático en todo mi cuerpo y yace en mi mente

Es como una nube y mis memorias la hacen parte de este presente.
 

Soy la materia de esas nubes rocosas y dolorosas

habito en la faja öpik-Oort con personas yertas, frías, y pesadas, 
Soy todo ese material de nuestras vidas con un amor eterno.

[2]

¡Disculpa, pero es así como se formaron los planetas! 

y las estrellas y la nada… ¡y el todo!

El todo y la nada se hicieron

en una parte infinitesimal

de un despampanante y alucinante tiempo

del cual, todos creemos, se desprenden

cada uno de esos eternos y galopantes segundos.

Si, es así como a veces nos suceden los universos,

…los planetas,

…las supernovas…

y porqué no, la energía negra

y también hasta la mismísima antimateria.

Disculpa, pero es así como se formó

lo poco que sabemos

… y lo mucho que ignoramos.

Solamente emanan del dolor producido por aquellos inesperados contactos,de mentes agonizantes y concientes

pero destrozadas por el olvido de un amor

y el despecho de un instante.

Soy tierra seca,

y me encuentro girando casi muerto

entre todos los planetas,

cada partícula mía me desgarra

desprendiéndome y esparciendo mi olvido,

por todo este incierto universo

Por lo poco que me queda ya

de mi magra existencia.

Desde este recobijo muy hondo que ofrecen

mis pobres lamentos y tal vez, algún día tú,

con esos tus ojos azules, me acompañarás

Sabrás de qué se trata esta mi queja mal hervida

la verás entre mis cenizas o entre la misma arena

Desde mi calva calavera; o entre una luz azul y roja, 

sentirás todo mi ya apagado fuego,

con ese mismo negro carmín de olor a féretro

con que mi dolor adorna hoy mis pensamientos
Me reconocerás la voz tú,¿quién sabe? Amada mía

Entenderás finalmente el lado humano exacto.

Sí, bueno quizás, algún día me releerás, tú, mi eterna rosa

y comprenderás entonces que el amor es causa de todas las cosas

y cual fue la verdadera causa que por nuestra libertad me hizo escribirte esta prosa solamente para ti y en esta precisa hora.

John Manuel – JMK.

Miércoles, 20 de julio de 2005

@ 12:26:56 p.m.

Mastery

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all." Michelangelo

Memoria de la Amnesia

I wrote this poem circa 2005, and now I have presented in a poetry competition to be held in Madrid. It is fun and you might want to consider doing it. The results will be announce by August 31st, I'll keep you posted. Well I put the poem in here so you can write your comments about it. In reference to the image is from an old painting of mine, I started painted it circa 1990 but I did not work on it again till 2005, time in which I gave up and left it the way it looks in here. I think it matches the poem; because while thinking in this painting and in the story about an English man with an extreme amnesia with whom I somehow I identified with, since I am very or extremely forgetful. Well, tell me what do you think by commenting below. In addition, a good way to learn to write in Spanish is to write poems, it is fun and fills your understanding of meaningful concepts that are the same no matter in what language you are expressing your emotions. Poetry is an universal language.

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Soy feliz con mi tristeza.
Soy humano en mi bestia.
Soy mal entendido pero muy bien amado.

Ando peleando con la paz fementida.
Ando sin zapatos en zapatillas.
Ando para atrás pero no le quito el negocio a los cangrejos.

Vivo en la ciudad con lo mismo que en el desierto.
Vivo con mi alma puesta, como en un refugio, para poder sentar mi pobre cabeza.
Vivo medio muerto pero para no bajarme, he tirado la escalera.

Mi alma auque descansa con esperanza, confieso que la tengo algo enferma.
Mi alma tiene un espíritu tísico en la sinrazón que existe sobre casi toda existencia.
Mi alma no conoce de musas pero la inspiración maltrata los dedos de su cuerpo.

Cuerpo endeble siento que te mueves con mucha gravedad.
Cuerpo eres un caballo en esa alma que no puede contigo, y te persigue.
Cuerpo te escucho cantar, y quieres quedarte con vida, pero el espíritu manda, y se te va.

Se perciben los momentos, y al instante que se forman, así se esfuman sus recuerdos.
¡Yo no entiendo! ¡Esto de ser nunca siendo, sin dejar ni un segundo de querer serlo!
Vivir con uno mismo, y encontrarse cada día con todos los rostros nuevos. ¿Quiénes serán?
¿Son de alguna ciudad o de otro pueblo? Donde todos bien te conocen, pero tú, nunca a ellos.
Yo sí no muero porque nunca termino de escribir una poesía a la ¡Memoria de la amnesia!

The Ruminated Apple

By JMK

Wow! Life by itself is the most difficult subject to learn, it just takes all your life and after one Life-cycle you are perhaps just starting to understand something about it, more likely so, if you become educated! Because, education allows you to learn from the knowledge learned by others, and more importantly, it is to learn those inquiries (subjects) that have taken and are taking many thousands life-cycles to grasp, document and applied to improve our way of living. Education is a shortcut and it is an anthology, a compilation of our very best, so we can repeat it and also of our very worse, so we won't dare to do it again.

Notwithstanding, I am glad to be enrolled in this course [Life] even though nobody have formally, asked me to be enrolled in it, and before I knew it, I was getting registered in at the maternity unit of some unknown hospital. For the some part of my life I did not know that I existed at all. Now, that I know better, I so embarrassed thinking about my mother changing those pampers. I just did not know that I was a part of this huge class, but it seems that enrollment has rapidly increased since I have born and now we have around 6 billion or so of students in class. What can I say? I am living a class that I don’t know when will be ended but I know it will continue after my existence, and paradoxically this seems perfectly fine for me, it is natural to die; moreover, I willingly want to stay in it for as long as I must! Gosh! I am ‘fighting’ every minute for being in here even though my growing bills and pains keep rolling every day or so.

What do you think or for this matter feel? I am curious about your ‘take’ on this. Therefore poste it in here when you fell like it.

A moment of reflection or rumination every day is like eating “one apple a day” only that instead to keep the doctors away from you, keeps the psychiatrists, psychotherapists, mind-readers, gurus, shamans, astrologers, counselors, social workers, case planners, financial advisers, lawyers, and a cadre of others like them, away, especially from your pockets. You only need an effective mind-opener, i.e. a teacher or perhaps my blog or many blogs, to assist you to acquire those skills needed to be an effective life-long learner within our global class in which many people are learning as well as competing for the same limited resources.

Therefore the recipe at hand is: For your metabolic diet: Eat one apple a day, and on the other hand, for your metacognition diet: take a brief moment for conducting one elemental reflection or rumination per day [Self-awareness].

There is happiness in harmony too. Reflecting on yourself or others or both, enhance your chance for obtaining a positive balance, tolerance and proper understanding of your circumstance and how to go about your needs and objectives. Your comments are always welcomed and highly appreciated.

Veritas

This is a close-up of a painting. I painted it "a la prima" at the Art Students League of New York, when I was monitoring a Saturday class.