Preparation - Appreciation

As I was preparing for my doctoral defence, two days from now, I was reading Gerard Whelan's thesis. (He is my second reader too.) He uses very simple language in his thesis. I love his simplicity in explaining some difficult notions from Bernard Lonergan's Insight. And also his sincerity when he admits once: "I have not been able to locate where I read this statement."

Block to Blog

Michael Shute writes, "As to the question of how to begin, I am reminded of Henry Miller's advice for overcoming writer's block: Write! What do you write about? Write about writer's block!"

[Michael Shute,“Functional Collaboration as the Implementation of Lonergan’s Method. Part II: How Might we Implement Functional Collaboration,” Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy and Education 24/2 (2013) 182.]

To be, to live..

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau