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2011 Year-End Review

Steve — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:52:15 +0000

What to say about 2011?

A Crop of Enlightened Perspectives

Steve — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:13:10 +0000

from David Fairchild’s Memoirs, The World Was My Garden (1938)

[on his own home garden] ”I was appalled by my abysmal ignorance of practical agriculture when I started to create my own home. I soon discovered that through all my years of association with professors of horticulture, agricultural colleges, and experiment stations, I had developed a [...]

Quotes

Steve — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:27:31 +0000

Quotes Pertaining to an Informed Perspective

Regarding Learning General Wit and Wisdom Excerpts from Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance Excerpts from Thoreau’s Walden From Mahatma Gandhi A Crop of Perspectives from David Fairchild’s The World Was My Garden

Learning

He who learns and [...]

Here’s Something About General Semantics

Steve — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:23:19 +0000

A Primer for Making Sense of Your World, by Steve Stockdale

Available in eBook format (PDF) for immediate FREE download. FREE! ISBN 978-0-9824645-0-2; 290 pages. Accessible, well-written introduction to GS principles, plus more! Written from 13 years teaching experience. Filled with examples, demonstrations, and explanations; over 50 illustrations. Includes articles from the GS journal [...]

What I Learned in 2000

Steve — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:20:00 +0000

As we begin the year of HAL, I thought it would be worthwhile for me to recount a few of my “lessons learned” over the past 12 months. Your mileage may vary. Season as you go with chili. Don’t take your jeans right out of the dryer and tuck them under your chin to fold. [...]

Passages for Uncertain Career Journeys

Steve — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:36:55 +0000

My friend and former career adviser Helen Harkness was asked to edit a special edition of a journal for career development professional in 2010. She invited me to submit an article/essay, which was accepted. The theme of the special edition was Mid Life Career Crisis: How chaos theory and positive psychology can help.

The edition [...]

National Workshop on General Semantics

Steve — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:10:07 +0000

Reprinted with permission from: Centre for Contemporary Theory, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Twelfth National Workshop Cognitive Language Skills for the 21st Century
3rd – 5th November 2007

A Report

One of the dominant concerns of contemporary social and political theory and one which has engaged if not captured [...]

He takes little at face value

Steve — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:57:59 +0000

The head of the semantics institute takes little at face value

(Reprinted with permission of the author, DIANA KUNDE)

Sun, Nov. 5, 2005

Special to the Dallas Morning News

FORT WORTH—What do you answer when your toddler asks, “What’s this?” What’s likely to follow when a politician begins a sentence with: “The fact of [...]

Brimming with knowledge

Steve — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:49:08 +0000

From the July 18, 2003 print edition of the Dallas Business Journal

Mike Whiteley Tarrant/Denton editor

When 16-year-old honors student Taylor Hess got expelled for carrying a bread knife onto the campus of L.D. Bell High School in the bed of his pickup, school officials drew more than the ire of stunned students and parents [...]

It’s a study of our lives (in so many words)

Steve — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:37:51 +0000

It’s a study of our lives, in so many words (Reprinted with permission of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram)Posted on Tue, Aug. 13, 2002By PAUL BOURGEOIS
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

FORT WORTH – Our language affects our behavior, and our behavior affects our language.

That is the very basic idea behind the Center for General Semantics, [...]