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Taking a nod from the usage of Tibetan Prayer Flags – an offering to the winds which you wish to disperse out into the world, allowing the physical decay of the flag to energize the ephemeral nature of the offering as it begins to lose … Read More →

Taking a nod from the usage of Tibetan Prayer Flags – an offering to the winds which you wish to disperse out into the world, allowing the physical decay of the flag to energize the ephemeral nature of the offering as it begins to lose … Read More →

The Scribble School, as was possibly mentioned earlier, was suggested by a young girl (6years old?) from Illinois. She was not sure from where in Illinois she was from. But she stopped in on one of the early days of A/AA MPLS and worked hard. … Read More →

Work on the Reading and Song School for Human and Dragon Peace and Reconciliation moves ever forward at a steady, albeit measured, clip. Here’s Sarah Peters toying around with some ideas.

Why do we want to create space with/for one another? What purpose does it serve? What is our compulsion to share these ideas. On a whim before heading to the construction site this morning I did a YouTube search for How to build a… and … Read More →

I often felt uncomfortable in school because I seemed I needed to arrive in class each day and develop into a person I wasn’t. My perception of the landscape was that the goal was to work the class in total into something new, not to … Read More →

It seems a lot of people are afraid of dragons, real and imagined. As has been the recurring theme, some of the more resonant formulations of schools during this iteration of A/AA have been imagined by kids. What has come up on a number of … Read More →

So many interesting ideas have passed through the construction site in the first week of A/AA in MPLS, and we and the folks who have joined in through the process have hopped onto many of them. Here’s a review of what’s taken place thus far.

In what way does the speed of the petroleum-age effect the way we interact with one another, the speed in which we expect the world to operate in, and hence the means in which we not only relate to the world, but also each other … Read More →

Mike and Sam have been taking a lot of time working on the School for Not Talking (formerly described as The School for Listening, which is a bit of a misnomer). The idea is that you enter this, as Courtney Dailey termed it, “black-box theater” … Read More →

Matt Olson, a designer from the Cities stopped through A/AA the other day. As usual, we were clued in to the historical continuum. Always a lovely bit of space travel that is. Matt was excited about the project, and mentioned that he had recently found … Read More →

Daniel and Jason, day laborers by trade, came to the opening of Surplus Seminar and enjoyed themselves with the rest of us. Taking the day off work (payed work that is) they arrived bright and early the next morning to help us start construction on … Read More →