July 8, 2015
The Value of Sadness
We took a field trip during the EE2 graduate workshop in Cape May to see the movie Inside Out. Our theme for the day was Emotions. We had explored for ourselves the ways we felt and saw emotions, sharing our feelings and thoughts about anger, sadness, fear, joy and other emotions in dyads and small groups. As always, people gave […]
February 19, 2015
The Nature of Love
I read in the paper this morning that Irving Singer died. It was strange for me to read this because I had been thinking of him yesterday and teaching my students something I learned from him. Professor Singer taught philosophy at MIT, where I was an undergraduate. When I took his course on the philosophy of sex and love at […]
August 2, 2014
Ritual
I just returned from my first trip to Japan. Like others, I was struck by the extent of ritual that permeates the culture. There is the removal of shoes as one enters a home, for example. And the bowing to each other. As a visitor, I experienced these rituals from the outside, but, as I participated, I began to feel […]