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Top 10 Albums of 2012

Hard to believe that it is *that* time of year again, but here we are closing out 2012 and with it comes the attempt to tier the music that has overwhelmed (and at times underwhelmed) our hearts and souls these past 12 months.  It has been a year with some surprises to be sure – from the horse dancing glee of Psy with “Gangnam Style” to the recent (so-called) reunion of Nirvana There’s more to read here.

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In that first breath of a new class: a professor’s thoughts standing at the podium on day one

There is that moment at the beginning of the academic year when the professor comes into the classroom, sets down his or her stack of papers and books, moves to the podium and begins class.   It is a very mundane moment in many ways.  Students chatter away, texting friends, drinking expensive espresso drinks in shimmering travel mugs with café logos you don’t get the reference to and you move … There’s more to read here.

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High-Five or Fist Bump the Arts today: Take a moment today to give to the arts for 2011

For those who have been around me for a while (or even a little bit) will know that a word that creeps into my lectures, academic writing, casual conversations and probably haunts my dream life is ‘poetry’.  There is something in the act of the imagination that continues to drive and challenge what I believe is core to who we are and what we are called to be.

Much of … There’s more to read here.

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