Feeling Alive When Learning
There's little that's more delicious than being an agent of others' learning all day and then getting to go to a class at night, where it's someone's job to be an agent of *my* learning.
My head was pounding by the end of class tonight, but it was a sweet headache. It's pounding further now, but it's worth it.
In my Time & Learning class tonight, we spoke of discretionary time and rhythmanalysis compared with psychoanalysis, and "Deaf Time" and time duration vs. experience in connection with resumes, and the different sense of rhythm of people with ADD and more.
At the end of class our professor handed us an article he wrote, "Moment and a Theory of Moments." So far, after a quick read, I'm most intrigued by the distinction made in the article between an instant and a moment. Alhadeff-Jones (2009) wrote on how instants really are shorter than moments, and quoted Hess (2004), who wrote that moments can have a ritual resonance preceding and following them.
Even as I'm beat from a day that began at 7 am and went till 7 pm, not including the car-ride back to Armonk from NYC, I felt so alive, driving back.
I blasted the radio and while channel-surfing, happened on Rod Stewart's "Young Turks." The chorus made me feel even more alive:
Young hearts be free tonight, time is on your side.
Young hearts be free tonight, time is on your side.
Young hearts be free tonight, time is on your side.
Young hearts gotta run free, be free, live free
Time is on, time is on your side
Time, time, time, time is on your side
is on your side
is on your side
is on your side
Young heart be free tonight
tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, yeah[!]
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