february 6

[Minute of Mindfulness: Is there something in your life that is incomplete?  How does this make you feel?]

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Symphony No. 8 in B Minor" by Franz Schubert, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic]

The day before yesterday, some classes nearly finished reading Chapter One of The Great Gatsby together before the bell rang.  Yesterday, we nearly got to the part in Chapter Two when Tom (well, you'll see today).  Almost every day, I leave campus thinking of things that we didn't have quite enough time to read, discuss, consider, or do.  We place a huge value on finishing things; today I am wondering about the value of incompleteness (if you really want to geek out on this, you can read about how mathematics and logic -- and therefore a great deal of our thinking about everything-- is incomplete... articles on Stanford's philosophy site and Wikipedia).  What is the value of an unfinished symphony that leaves the next steps or the ending up to us?

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Gatsby pp. _____ (finish Chapter 2 and get into Chapter 3)

POST:
1. Post your Gatsby reading notes (title: GATSBY pp. ___)
2. Set a goal based on today's conversations and describe it in a post entitled, MY UN/FINISHED SYMPHONY