hello

Hi All-

I just wanted to drop a quick note to say 'hi' to those of you I don't know. Also, a promise to everyone--I'll post something of substance (hopefully pertaining to tentative claims/theses I'll be presenting in our roundtable) in the next few weeks. I'm closing in on the defense of my diss. prospectus (next Monday) and am thick in the middle of preparing for that. After that is done, I should have (hope to have?) some time to contribute to this.

And 'hi' to those of you I do know, as well :)

Liz Kalbfleisch, UMN-Twin Cities

A Useful Understanding of History

This post will contain unfinished reflection on the following quotation:

"When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them." – Out of Africa, 1937

It is true that storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it, that it brings about reconciliation and consent with things as they really are, and that we may even trust it to contain eventually by implication that last word which we expect from the "day of judgment." -Arendt, "Isak Dinasen"

Rather than a link . . . .

. . . . I'm sending a photo of my yoga study for the next week. I'll post more words right after that. Namaste.