26 feb 06

Greetings,

MK 14 is up for your listening pleasure. We asked classes this week, "What's the difference between "hear" and "listen"? The consensus was that listening is a process and hearing is a result. Interesting. Or as someone once said, "How can I know what I think until I see what I said?"

So maybe I should say, "Thanks for hearing MK 14." Maybe one is passive and the other active. Or, as someone said, "I don't have a listening problem, I have a hearing problem."

Funny how we rely on sense data which at best is filtered through various personal bias and beliefs, speaking of data mining which is what the super secret intelligence agencies do using a giant vacuum cleaner manufactured somewhere over the rainbow, according to reliable sources who, for the sake of their lives, demanded to remain obscure at an undisclosed location in a small lab near a swan infested lake teeming with wild trout.

In other news Oregon Literary Review published three Tibet images and some words in their Winter/Spring 2006 issue.

Also, here's a quote about blogging we found interesting....As Ana Marie Cox says: “When people talk about the liberation of the armchair pajamas media, they tend to turn a blind eye to the fact that the voices with the loudest volume in the blogsphere definitely belong to people who have experience writing. They don’t have to be experienced journalists necessarily, but they write - part of their professional life is to communicate clearly in written words.”

And not every blogger can be a Tom Paine. “People may want a democratic media,” says Cox, “but they don’t want to be bored. They also want to be entertained and they want to feel like they’ve learned something. They want ideas expressed with some measure of clarity.”

The old joke says when an English writer finds success they get a new typewriter. An American writer gets a new life.

Peace.

Oregon Literary Review