tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661072104504334092024-03-21T17:13:16.955-07:00AA :: The Education of the ArtisanAA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-63359363520499562002010-12-30T07:59:00.000-08:002010-12-30T07:59:22.540-08:00BACKGROUND PERCEPTION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSlSrMnOKfEr0OtNZD6_WdnbqNMQMEZ7D5jg7ooynUsAhAmwgszyPIB7F31gO4dX9ZwwaVH5i6ovdVI3WVy2Z7npNISBRf9uvbmhxLn5X7KH2TsQ9M6aFRCQ9GloMag4xKdAQAJJrYgd4/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="295" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSlSrMnOKfEr0OtNZD6_WdnbqNMQMEZ7D5jg7ooynUsAhAmwgszyPIB7F31gO4dX9ZwwaVH5i6ovdVI3WVy2Z7npNISBRf9uvbmhxLn5X7KH2TsQ9M6aFRCQ9GloMag4xKdAQAJJrYgd4/s320/2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Playschool Study 2010/ robert r. lackney architect</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Children get their ideas from common sense and experience- from all the things that go on in their environments- all of it from their particular unique experiences- not from teachers-, as they believe they are the source.<br />
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Woolsely said: “ be very careful of what you put into children’s heads because it will never get it out.”<br />
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We look for models that reinforce our misconceptions. Things that are real are amateur- made by hands of love and passion. Children are not empty vessels- their experience will hold and is more accurate- mental models as a child persists into adulthood- and with our professionals do not shift their understandings learned in their hands on experience. Things that are “of my world- of love and passion” your own ideas and theories- unless you work with them you can not change them. We are not empty vessels. Poor teaching is worse than can be imagines. We design tests so that people can pass them.AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-32616064822815038822009-06-27T11:41:00.001-07:002009-08-31T21:26:51.636-07:00AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-60881481237559850742009-04-26T11:15:00.000-07:002009-07-25T05:13:46.469-07:00LIFE'S PASSION<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXqy4kaxltOkROmPR4hir7E_QD8dm0rlLZ9oM8kuaN3alnJ6pDVi1Jk4d1wm2_jmkKPLnwkBBfe7uSKIxkzWCc01pfNbsJSKx2ONo4bCuJZOSxig2ATpVU5xdO6chMZXZy07LJD5LMdfk/s1600-h/0webjuly.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 173px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329065739275149394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXqy4kaxltOkROmPR4hir7E_QD8dm0rlLZ9oM8kuaN3alnJ6pDVi1Jk4d1wm2_jmkKPLnwkBBfe7uSKIxkzWCc01pfNbsJSKx2ONo4bCuJZOSxig2ATpVU5xdO6chMZXZy07LJD5LMdfk/s200/0webjuly.jpg" /></a> i said: </div><div align="center"><strong>" I want to see as far as I can in every direction."</strong></div><div align="center">A voice asked: </div><div align="center">"<strong>And, how will you do that?"</strong></div><div align="center">i replied: </div><div align="center"><strong>"With my imagination."</strong> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">2007 interview with the Catherdal Insitute</div><div align="center">robert r. lackney</div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-39934341354876651712009-03-04T08:19:00.001-08:002009-06-27T11:43:04.173-07:00INTRODUCTION1 ::: There is a serious flaw within current educational processes where a the “one size fits all” approach to teaching and learning<br /><br />2 ::: What we need to do is to bring the best and the brightest into the education process and nurture our youth over an extended period of time: say 5,10,15 plus 3 years.<br /><br />::: Children can do extraordinary things. Children are reaching out into everything and forming a new recipes , namely:<br /><br />3::: META LEVEL LEARNING: children thinking about their personal learning-a community base learning process-the internet is at the center but now they are assembling ideas/concepts/solutions from multiple resources: the internet of course and from people from all over the world.<br /><br />4 ::: 'The One glimmer of optimism'- children and learners are changing their institutions and then the institutions changing policies. The learners are already on the train- they have left the station and well on their way.<br /><br />5 ::: We may indeed be a witness to the ::: Death of Education and The Dawn of Learning.AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-41050518001094871302009-03-04T08:19:00.000-08:002009-03-04T08:52:17.879-08:00<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjU07h7oPlk5sgs6VMCGu3Cb_gMUUXVmNiuVm594QFcQ8Wos0xkMiuGNt5Rr-2AuDU8-4QIfleAaBeYBSZq-k2ekl7Y9GBcr0-J_Dia7ST84TtVviXpysEch6CHebBqPCmxM-LYQpjQ4/s1600-h/1blueBaptistry1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309369897112625842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 198px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjU07h7oPlk5sgs6VMCGu3Cb_gMUUXVmNiuVm594QFcQ8Wos0xkMiuGNt5Rr-2AuDU8-4QIfleAaBeYBSZq-k2ekl7Y9GBcr0-J_Dia7ST84TtVviXpysEch6CHebBqPCmxM-LYQpjQ4/s200/1blueBaptistry1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:georgia;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Out of a child's imagination comes the dream</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Something new. Something better. </strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Something yet to happen</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">r.r.lackney, architect</span><br /></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="center"><strong>THE SOCIETY OF SACRED ART ARCHITECTURE, INC.</strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">WEB: </span><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://archangelpublications.com/</span></a> </div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">AA:: Art Architecture Spirituality, Inc.</span></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">BLOG: </span><a href="http://aasocietysacredarchitectureinc.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://aasocietysacredarchitectureinc.blogspot.com/</span></a><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">AA:: Sanctuary Architecture, Inc.</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">BLOG: </span><a href="http://aaarchitecturesanctuary.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://aaarchitecturesanctuary.blogspot.com/</span></a><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">AA :: The Educational Foundation, Inc.<br /></span></strong><span style="font-size:85%;">BLOG: </span><a href="http://www.societyofsacredart.blogspot.com/"><a href="http://www.societyofsacredart.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.societyofsacredart.blogspot.com/</span></a></a><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">AA:: The Education of The Artisan</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">BLOG: </span><a href="http://www.societyofsacredart.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.societyofsacredart.blogspot.com/</span></a> </div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-1774469467721129092009-02-03T13:24:00.000-08:002009-04-04T19:33:37.226-07:00<div align="center"><div align="center"><a href="http://aaarchitecturesanctuary.blogspot.com/"></a></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMCFUN6EDWs8KIdSvwcVEelJ83BEmMWDutvfrbxh4e6vSPZERjJufWdalQ3EvEd5l68TV7u4TfR50o1LgKP1yknj5984r9sKoWAd3WtDhHZSrOlUEiaG5t_7-lr5bRwda-zv7oj0Dddx8/s1600-h/0Januaryweb.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298691177949350930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 188px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMCFUN6EDWs8KIdSvwcVEelJ83BEmMWDutvfrbxh4e6vSPZERjJufWdalQ3EvEd5l68TV7u4TfR50o1LgKP1yknj5984r9sKoWAd3WtDhHZSrOlUEiaG5t_7-lr5bRwda-zv7oj0Dddx8/s200/0Januaryweb.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div align="center">" The Heart is Awakened and </div><div align="center">We are filled with an Amazing Light"</div><div align="center">r.r.lackney liturgical architect</div><div align="center"><span style="color:#000099;"><strong><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/40.html"><span style="font-size:78%;">http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/40.html</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></strong></span></div><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>THE EDUCATION OF THE ARTISAN<br /></strong></span>How do we collectively create a Catholic school that will be based on putting " Creative Imagination" at the center of learning and creating connective networks that break through the boundries of disciplines, and the creative professions?<br /><br />There is a serious flaw within current educational processes where a<br />the “one size fits all” approach to teaching and learning.<br /><br />In this concept, conformity is the rule of law, creativity is sacrificed for teaching to the test, teaching without regarding teacher individuality and uniqueness.<br /><br />The EDF proposes that we create an alternative educational process where "Creativity" is considered as a discipline that is the center of learning.<br /><br />But, the EDF encourages Catholic educational leadership to look at the current programs and seek to discover the emerging opportunities within religious education.<br /><br />What if our students, teachers, and educators visit the most progressive Catholic schools throughout the country with the single idea of inviting Catholic communities to propose alternative models of educating the next generation of Catholic youth?<br /><br />What we need to do is to bring the best and the brightest into the Catholic education process and nuture this over an extended period of time: say 5,10,15 plus 3 years.<br /><br />What we need to do is to make develop curricula that integrates the major disciplines and includes students, teachers, and practicing professionals. </p><p>Further, we at the EDF encourage those who are responsible(and accountable) for the future of Catholic education to evaluate the validity of the existing programs currently pursued.</p><p><br />The Educational Foundation Inc. is the process by which we identify the the best and brightest students and teachers now and recognize them through our Work + Study + Travel grants program.<br /><br /></p><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>21st CENTURY LEARNING:THE FUTURE</strong></span></div><div align="left"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/2contactus/5.html"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;">http://archangelpublications.com/2contactus/5.html</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> '</span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color:#000099;"></span></strong></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><br /></strong>Facing a magnitude of collapse in the Educational Institutions: are we to witness of the Death of Education and also be the witness to the Dawn of Learning? </div><div align="left">The Learners are already on the train, they have left the station and well into their journey.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Three things I sense from my studies:<br /><br />1/ The Quality of what is going on: the new recipes for learning becoming more and more complex. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Where children engaged in the emerging technologies are doing extraordinary things. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Where children are reaching out into the horizons in every direction and forming a new recipes: </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color:#000099;"></span></strong></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000099;"><span style="color:#000000;">Within the embrace of </span><strong> META LEVEL LEARNING</strong></span>, children are thinking about their personal learning experiences.</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Belonging to a community base learning process where the internet dominates communications they are assembling ideas/concepts/solutions from multiple resources: to and from people from all over the world.<br /><br />Integrating from the spectrum of innovations within every human activity. Children want to be way better than last year- now that they have started they are not stoppable. Working in the schools, the coffee shops, restaurants, and in the home.<br /><br />2/ We knew what was wrong in the financial system- collapsed because people did not act on what they knew to be true. </div><div align="left">Education will face the same fate as the financial institutions within five years. </div><div align="left"><br />We may be a witness to the "Death of Education and the Dawn of Learning".<br /><br />We cannot go on indefinitely without acting on what 'we know what must be done differently and better', educational leaders are responsible to provide the resources to learners.<br /><br />3/ 'One glimmer of optimism'- children and learners are changing their institutions and then the institutions changing policies.<br /></div><div align="left">The learners are already on the train- they have left the station and well on their way</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">We must remember the people in our lives teaching us (students) how to think: </div><div align="left">We go to school and our brains are destroyed. </div><div align="left">We are taught “things” not “concepts”.<br />We waste prime time in school memorizing things that we will never need or use.<br />We are no longer teaching Concepts and Theories and Ideas.<br /></div><p></p><p></p><p>Peace and Only Good Things: Feast of the Transfiguration August 6th 2001</p><p>The Society of sacred Art and Architecture, Inc.</p><p><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/2contactus/5.html">http://archangelpublications.com/2contactus/5.html</a></p><p>[ Robert R. lackney's 3- reflections based upon Professor Steven Heppell comments]<br /><br /><br /></p><div align="left"></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-47406440408632583702009-02-03T13:21:00.000-08:002009-09-08T18:27:05.811-07:00EDUCATION OF THE ARTISIAN<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><strong>EDUCATION OF THE ARTISIAN :: BACKGROUND PERCEPTIONS<br />
</strong>by The Society of Sacred Art and Architecture, Inc. president: robert r. lackney, architect </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><strong>NOTIONS + IDEAS + THEORIES : EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES<br />
</strong>Visit: <strong><span style="color: red;">AA :: SANCTUARY ARCHITECTURE, INC.<br />
</span></strong></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #000099;"><strong>Feb03: Blog Archive<br />
</strong></span>Concept narrative: Educational Foundation<br />
EDF: Mission/ Vision/ Focus/ Scholarship/ Collaborations<br />
Governance, Leadership Group, Board, Exec. Committee </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: red;">EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OBJECTIVES</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br />
The 8 Fundamental Questions<br />
Things to Imagine: 4D’s, Process, Environments<br />
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><strong><span style="color: #000099;">Feb 02 : Blog Archive<br />
</span></strong>Lourdes College Homily/ Background Perceptions<br />
Educational Foundation Inc.<br />
Our Passion CREATIVITY+INNOVATION+LEADERSHIP<br />
Study Time and key words<br />
<strong><span style="color: #000099;">Feb 01: Blog Archive</span></strong><br />
Creativity 1: What ignites the Imagination? Interview by<br />
The Institute of Monastic Studies<br />
Creativity 2: What does it mean to create your futures?<br />
Creativity: Inspiration, Spontaneity, Imagination<br />
ISBN 0 7880 2041, r.r.lackney architect<br />
Creativity 3: Influences that impact the creative life<br />
Sanctuary: Space Symbol Spirituality. Interview Notes.<br />
Creativity 4: The 8 Creative Things, The 5 Mind Sets, The 4 Deadly Sins, My 8 Personal Beliefs, The 8 Questions, The 8 Fundamental Questions, The 8 Self Questions, The 8 Mental Tools, The 8 Creative Processes, The 8 Life Themes, The 4 Techniques.<br />
The Deacon’s Homily, presented to the Toledo Deacon Council. July 19-21, 2009. By r.r.lackney, permanent deacon.<br />
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #000099;"><strong>Jan 31: Blog Archive<br />
</strong></span>Leadership 1: 8 Ways to Think about Leadership. 8 Key Issues<br />
Leadership 2: Archangel’s Leadership 10 Realities<br />
Innovation 1: Innovation, Creative Imagination and Inspiration<br />
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #000099;"><strong>Jan 30: Blog Archive<br />
</strong></span>Innovation 2: The INNOVATION MODEL<br />
Jan 29: Blog Archive<br />
Creative Imagination: Principles to Live By.<br />
<span style="color: #000099;"><strong>Jan 28: Blog Archive</strong></span><br />
Principle of “Un- Predictability”<br />
Education + Thinking + Toys<br />
<span style="color: #000099;"><strong>Jan 27: Blog Archive</strong></span><br />
A Child’s Imagination: Strategies of Creativity + Innovation + Leadeship</span></span>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-62812520781801340942009-02-03T13:11:00.000-08:002009-02-03T18:08:14.778-08:00<span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;color:#000099;"><strong>THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC</strong></span>.<br />Sponsored By:<br />The Society of Sacred Art and Architecture, Inc..<br />r.r.lackney, architect<br /><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/2contactus/contactus.html"><span style="font-size:78%;">http://archangelpublications.com/2contactus/contactus.html</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>VISION<br /></strong></span>Expansion of human Knowledge, Capacity, and Intuition<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>BELIEF<br /></strong></span>Out of a child’s imagination comes the dream of something new of something better of something yet to happen out there in the future: here in the present.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>MISSION</strong></span><br />The Education Foundation strives to assist students, teachers, educational leadership, and practicing professional in achieving their potentials through the award of educational grants, scholarships, and classroom projects.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>FOCUS</strong></span><br />Partner with local school board to support:<br />• Senior Scholarships • Teacher Grants • Educational Opportunities<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>MISSION</strong></span><br />Sponsor “environments of discovery” that awaken:<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Creativity + Innovation + Leadership<br /></strong></span><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/85.html"><span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff0000;">http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/85.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>SCHOLARSHIPS<br /></strong></span>Student Awards for Planning for Higher Education:<br />• High School students • Classroom grants • Teachers •<br />• School Administrators • Professional Initiatives<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>COLLABORATION</strong></span><br />Maintenance of foundation’s a cadre of sponsors, volunteers.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>GOVERNANCE<br /></strong></span><br />“The Educational Foundation functions on the premise that the world will be a better place when students and teachers<br />are given the best learning-opportunities and educational tools to prepare them to assume their role in the worldwide community.”<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC.<br /></strong></span>Partnerships with local school designed to award Senior Scholarships, Teacher Grants, Educational Opportunities, Classroom projects, Professional Internship - Mentor awards.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE<br /></strong></span>Gifts: Cash • Securities • Real Estate • Trust • In-Kind giving.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>BOARD</strong></span><br />Authorization: Requests • Awards Scholarships • Fund Raising.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>LEADERSHIP GROUP</strong></span><br />Proposal approval: Student • Teacher • Professional initiatives.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>SCHOLARSHIPS<br /></strong></span>Distinguished Teaching Grants • Senior Class scholarships Professional Opportunities • Classroom Projects<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION<br /></strong></span>Fund Raising • Investments • Gift of Cash • Bequests<br />Life Insurance • Annuities • Real Estate •AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-18605186431363637962009-02-03T12:53:00.000-08:002009-02-14T06:06:23.396-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcV7IJvk-729KZu6t8HxDx7e_4gDlUWoLnRRoEHSfkv_tegCVjVrwNgY4FrnN05e4F6G3jPWA55fqok-HNBUpie2BkXItbBxjeQrbGPa_frsafiF_O7l9n5OIc8tWvug1ILJ711fT9lFA/s1600-h/1WHITEP3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299744168509777138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 373px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcV7IJvk-729KZu6t8HxDx7e_4gDlUWoLnRRoEHSfkv_tegCVjVrwNgY4FrnN05e4F6G3jPWA55fqok-HNBUpie2BkXItbBxjeQrbGPa_frsafiF_O7l9n5OIc8tWvug1ILJ711fT9lFA/s400/1WHITEP3.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">What Are The Objectives of The Educational Foundation?</span></strong><br /><br />To think, To struggle, and to doubt- this is what I believe what education is all about.<br /><br />There are 3 Levels of learning:<br />A ::: Possession / Loss<br />B ::: Struggle / Sacrifice<br />C ::: The Recovery of Common Sense.<br /><br />We discover the world, develop a vocabulary, and explore the “hidden mysteries”.<br /><br /><em><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Interview notes from the "Spiritual Life". Vol.2. Feb.20th. r.r.lackney</span></strong></em><br /><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/65.html">http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/65.html</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">1::: Discover, Prepare, and Mentor our exceptional students, teachers, and educational leaders.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">2::: These students are currently in grade schools, middle schools, high schools and working professionals in the market place.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">3::: Key question we must ask: " How effectively will we accomplish this?<br /></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color:#000099;"><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>The creation of an educational approach that prepares our brilliant students and teachers to contribute, create, and provide the solutions and engages the uncertainties, problems, and opportunities facing the local and global community.</em></span><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">8 FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS</span><br /></strong><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/3consultation/32.html"><span style="font-size:78%;color:#000000;">http://archangelpublications.com/3consultation/32.html</span></a></div><br /><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">1 ::: Are the attributes "Creativity- Innovation-Leadership" being weaned out of the individual student?<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">2 ::: Does the current educational system maximize the natural abilities of the student?<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">3 ::: Do the current educational settings (and processes) disconnect students, teachers and administrators from their talents?<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">4 ::: Does the current educational approach prepare our brilliant students and teachers to effectively contribute knowledge to the emerging issues, uncertainties, and opportunities to expanding problems found within the dynamics of the future world ?<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">5 ::: Does the current educational system within education focus the student to prepare for job(s) in the workplace and consistently push them away from doing certain things like music, art, sculpture, painting, and architecture?<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">6 ::: How should education prepare students (and teachers) for the marketplace? The workplace?<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">7 ::: Do educators support independent work, study, and travel to maximize the creative potential of our students, teachers, and staff?<br /></span><br /></div></span></span></span><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#ff0000;">8 ::: Is “Creativity- Innovation- Leadership” taught as a field of inquiry, within the curriculum along with Math and Science?</span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;"></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">THINGS TO IMAGINE</span></strong><br /></span><br />1: THE 4 D’S<br />The process of discovery, development, decision-making, and design that will educate our students, teachers, and leaders to come to the realization that we must be responsive to all life on our planet through our individual and collective Creative Imagination?<br /><br />2: PROCESS<br />The creative processes that deliver true human knowledge, capacity, and ingenuity to the service of the human community at all levels.”<br /><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/3consultation/32.html"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;">http://archangelpublications.com/3consultation/32.html</span></a><br />3: ENVIRONMENTS<br />The providing “environments” that focus the discovery processes that maximize the ‘Creative- Innovation-Leadership” skills of students and teachers.AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-10685994556233209392009-02-02T06:56:00.000-08:002009-02-18T09:01:27.737-08:00<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKCGF6hnptE6Y3r_3ny1szDt4Imd_T8UpNNFe5l6fS7VEiNDEKkgV26x8u0nbQBPRmGqZCjJQoO1ESYy-SFjmn79a7xEbLy1tkDaXL6Jjo3quiMsCLFNGeqnBxdii7jvcWFARsZf5nW-E/s1600-h/2eucharist1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298214352649060434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 192px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKCGF6hnptE6Y3r_3ny1szDt4Imd_T8UpNNFe5l6fS7VEiNDEKkgV26x8u0nbQBPRmGqZCjJQoO1ESYy-SFjmn79a7xEbLy1tkDaXL6Jjo3quiMsCLFNGeqnBxdii7jvcWFARsZf5nW-E/s200/2eucharist1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Creative Imagination = Eucharist = sacramental Experience r.r.lackney 2000</span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/42.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/42.html</span></a> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Background Perceptions taken from R.R. Lackney's homily reflection at </div><div align="center">Lourdes College graduates of 1986</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="left">I think, we should give the past the benefit of our doubts, because in our choices we, like the people of the past, “do not know what we decide and do will really come out. Nothing ever has to happen the way it happened. Nothing was on a track. Nothing was pre-ordained. Nothing was guaranteed to be as it is.<br /></div><div align="center"><strong><em>"Anything</em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em>At any time, </em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em>Any event of the past</em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em>Could have gone differently </em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em>Could have been done differently<br />For any number of different reasons<br />At almost any point in time." <span style="color:#ff0000;">*</span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="justify">' ... Our lives are fluid, they change, they are molded and shaped by events and personal experiences. We operate in an atmosphere of freedom with decisions to make and we do not, really, know how these decisions will turn out or the impact on ourselves or on the lives of others. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">There is a great wonder in not knowing of what will happen and how things will eventually come about: Our personal mystery powered by our curiosity, a curiosityalways in the pursuit of truth.<br /></div><div align="left">There is opportunity to enter into our futures that is full of confidence and power hidden in our own, personal histories, and it has to do with EDUCATION. </div><div align="left"><br />We must be grateful to those who taught us.in their faithful performance of their duty to TEACH.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">' We cannot know who we are unless we knew who we were, and how we got to be<br />where we are. Really, we cannot know another person, an individual unless you know what they have been through in their individual life. We cannot be so unappreciative as to forget that if<br />we stop remembering and showing our admiration and respect for high accomplishment<br />we are really in trouble.' </div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left">If we dismiss everything: theories, notions, ideas, faith, God, creation, intution and remain cynics we can no longer be heroes to learn from, we are really in trouble and those we are responsible to are in trouble. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">'We are going through a very difficult transition now: social transitions, transitions in science, medicine, technology, shifting populations, rising expectations. problems with disease, problems with racial-bigotry, and in this time of tension and testing we can LEARN.'</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;">r.r.lackney, Lourdes College Sisters of Saint Francis, Sylvaina, Ohio 1986.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;">( <span style="color:#ff0000;">*</span>quote: David McCoullough)</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"><strong>BACKGROUND PERCEPTIONS</strong></span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Through "Education" we find common ground we are together: a people bonded in wisdom, knowledge, and virtue. There is a bond that, I believe, extends beyond race, age, economics, and demographics. There is a sense of wanting- a longing- to belong to something greater than our own selves. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">I believe this longing is the Love of Learning. The endless search for Knowledge!<br /></span></em></strong><br />1 ::: How do we think about and then discover the fundamental educational processes that “maximize the creative impulses” within the individual artisan and awaken the human the mind, body and spirit to perform at the highest levels over extended periods of time?<br /><br />2 ::: How are artisans to organize and innovate effectively to provide solutions to emerging problems (at all levels of human activity)?<br /><br />3 ::: What is the role of “uncertainty”, “anxiety”, “ambiguity” in the processes of creative imagination?<br /></div><div align="left">4::: And, how do these learning processes impact the way we educate the Artisan?</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC.</span></strong><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">What is our Passion?</span></em></strong></span></div><div align="left"><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Focus: <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">CREATIVITY + INNOVATION + LEADERSHIP<br /></div></span></strong><div align="left">Strategy: Development of The Open Source Model as the means of knowledge distribution.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">CREATIVITY:</span></strong> Creativity is something that “happens” to you and creates the sense of “uncertainty”. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Creativity always leads to Innovation and Collaboration.</span></em></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">INNOVATION:</span></strong> The making things with your hands that leads to “Creative Collaboration” that works through solutions over extended periods of time. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Innovation always is Cumulative and Collaborative.</span></em></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">LEADERSHIP:</span></strong> Seeing and conceiving solutions to problems that exist beyond what we know and do not know.The ability to “see over the horizon" and then "think act and do". </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">The ability to Create a Vision and fulfill a Dream.</span></em></strong> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Commitment and participation in the ”Meta-Group Thinking Team(s ) that establishes the working relationship between the professional and the amateur. </div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">CREATIVE IMAGINATION:</span></strong> Eucharist, the sacramental experience that makes the Past and Future Present.That Love, Work Knowledge, and Service are indeterminate.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Create Something out of Nothing</span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"></span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;">References: </span><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/3consultation/30.html"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;">http://archangelpublications.com/3consultation/30.html</span></a></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"></span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">STUDYTIME:</span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:78%;color:#000000;">RIGHT LEFT BRAIN +++ CREATIVE COLLABORATION +++THE CREATIVE CLUSTER +++ RADICAL INNOVATION </span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:78%;color:#000000;">+++ PRECONCEPTIONS= MIND SETS +++ INVENTOR – INVENTING- INVENTION, KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING WHAT IS BEING INVENTED +++ LIMITS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE +++ SOLUTIONS: CREATIVE COLLABORATION OVER EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME +++ ROLE OF “UNCERTAINTY” IN CREATIVITY +++ THE 11 LEVELS OF ANXIETY A ND CREATIVITY </span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:78%;color:#000000;">+++ SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING +++ THE INTERNET EXPLOSION +++ CORPORATE CULT MODEL</span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></strong></div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-25318586603846981452009-02-01T07:55:00.001-08:002009-02-02T06:56:11.777-08:00CREATIVITY ::: ONE<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitenHDsuhGDQtYQWqCpNMC9JJapsPd2Co15f82cuae92wUHPcx4xwPWHGetNj9nn5J1sq2HBkFJZ7iRzojPBY8p97uaibuk7e_ZQeXVn3EapHAz-DKzlv30j8rphvLB9Sk7cUdTHps9ZE/s1600-h/1s8.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298213671628735874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 160px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitenHDsuhGDQtYQWqCpNMC9JJapsPd2Co15f82cuae92wUHPcx4xwPWHGetNj9nn5J1sq2HBkFJZ7iRzojPBY8p97uaibuk7e_ZQeXVn3EapHAz-DKzlv30j8rphvLB9Sk7cUdTHps9ZE/s200/1s8.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Love Work Knowledge Service is indeterminate: r.r.lackney, 2000</span><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/42.html"><span style="font-size:78%;">http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/42.html</span></a> </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"><strong><em>Robert, what "ignites" your imagination?<br /></em></strong></span></div><br /><div align="left">When we think about the gift of creating all those beautiful things we touch, see, hear, or use in daily life. We gradually realize something of what God must have looked upon as the 1st Dawn and Evening came to this earth.<br /><br />That Holy Gleam has been in every eye of every artist from <em><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">the moment shade kissed a shadow</span></strong></em>. Did not Adam and Eve see the same glitter in the eyes of their children in the new creation surrounding them outside of the Gates of Paradise?<br /><br />Have we not, for centuries, been captivated by the <strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#3333ff;">HIDDEN</span> </span></strong>powers in the </div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">ANCIENT SOUNDS,</span></strong> words, colors, shapes, that grace the great cave walls of France & Egypt?<br /><br />And, recall the memories of our inspirations- we stand beneath the <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">HOLY GAZE</span></strong> of a beautiful image that in the changing light- sensing as we do in its movements into the <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">RHYTHMS</span></strong> of distant echoes from within the mystery that created it so long ago in those first moments that the <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">CREATOR</span></strong>, the sole creator, loved the world into existence and in some marvelous way now has associated its beauty with and maybe in you?<br /><br />We must all return to the <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Great Book of Nature</span></strong> to re-discover the essence of both the religious experience and this artistic creativity that has been given to artisans.<br /><br />The Creator opens the narrative by loving all things into existence: </div><br /><div align="left"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">bringing something out of nothing</span></em></strong>. </div><br /><div align="left">Creating the rhythm of the birth and death within the Cosmos:The Great Presence.<br /><br />Only God could think of such a thing. r.r.lackney 2002 </div><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="left">Interview by: The Institute for Monastic Studies</div><br /><div align="left"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/60.html">http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/60.html</a></div><br /><div align="left"></div></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-73942078839517670692009-02-01T07:49:00.000-08:002009-02-01T08:46:05.170-08:00CREATIVITY ::: TWO<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZm49EyLmP7tpe-d2BZPY0KnvPuwGuEM6ezBqu7L1f01bOJz4CcO8Nu5-I5YcGdQPNwXuN2q5DB_5s48OKeGtrn3USUtGJzd6MlN2FuxCi8zk0Bf1_4R8ytBf-2EP9ln5B8c9MNSi_JQ/s1600-h/1TALENT3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297857046766130978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 198px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZm49EyLmP7tpe-d2BZPY0KnvPuwGuEM6ezBqu7L1f01bOJz4CcO8Nu5-I5YcGdQPNwXuN2q5DB_5s48OKeGtrn3USUtGJzd6MlN2FuxCi8zk0Bf1_4R8ytBf-2EP9ln5B8c9MNSi_JQ/s200/1TALENT3.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Search for : Truth, Beauty, Goodness, r.r.lackney, 1990</span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/2contactus/1.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://archangelpublications.com/2contactus/1.html</span></a> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">As an architect, what does it mean: </span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">"We create our own futures"</span></em></strong></div><div align="center">Interview: Educational Foundation, Inc. July 19th 2008</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">I do not mean to preach but for me the future relies upon an undaunted desire -an appitite that has a craving for learning to enter fully into:</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">An experience ! An area of study ! An adventure !</span></strong></div><div align="center">No matter how complicated, simplistic, or esoteric it might at first seem.</div><div align="center">In this I am assured that Curiosity will continue to create all my futures.</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Faith that design of Art and Architecture will lead to:</div><div align="center">a lifetime of curiosity and knowledge </div><div align="center">The <strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">Creative Mysteries</span></strong> are found in:</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">INNER SPLENDOR DELIGHT + AWE + WONDER</span></strong> </div><div align="center">We believe that </div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">BEAUTY + TRUTH + GOODNESS</span></strong></div><div align="center">The question I ask myself each day: Are our ideas worth spreading? </div><div align="center">That beauty is the highest level of human inspiaration.</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">HARMONY is BEAUTY, TRUTH, GOODNESS</span></strong></div><div align="center">Complelling. Transcendental. Mysteries.</div><div align="center">This remains my continuing struggle to ponder and then embrace. </div><div align="center">MYSTERIES</div><div align="center">Not be thought of as GOD but experienced as the inner </div><div align="center">AMBER LIGHT : The CREATION’S LIGHT </div><div align="center">The source of all spiritual life, including mine.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/81.html"><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/81.html</span></strong></a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Interview response from: CREATIVITY.</div><div align="center">Inspiration+Spontaneity+Imagination</div><div align="center">ISBN 0 7880 2041-1 CREATIVITY</div><div align="center">Copyright by Society of Sacred Art and Architecture, Inc.</div><div align="center"></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-63554664012938353222009-02-01T07:44:00.001-08:002009-02-01T09:19:22.271-08:00CREATIVITY ::: THREE<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJSk5b1VBIwnHeE1YW8iZM1nDWTQXeMKSKARzHcjLMcokmdIb56tSD2dxuaIXGFmM9OE00MGPUT8J8nT2iDYWeLEyRDcZs9SsqMp5X9Wop6XcFFHSiNPD9XOwxNjB2LgdBB6pa3eksQM/s1600-h/2fire1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297855529490899074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJSk5b1VBIwnHeE1YW8iZM1nDWTQXeMKSKARzHcjLMcokmdIb56tSD2dxuaIXGFmM9OE00MGPUT8J8nT2iDYWeLEyRDcZs9SsqMp5X9Wop6XcFFHSiNPD9XOwxNjB2LgdBB6pa3eksQM/s200/2fire1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Love + Work + Knowledge: Indeterminate, r.r.lackney 1995</span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/64.html"><span style="font-size:78%;">http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/64.html</span></a></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Robert, what events or people </span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">influenced your creative life?</span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;"><em>Interview and discussion withFr. Cleo Schmenck, 1998</em></span></div><span style="color:#ff0000;"><div align="left"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;">Ahhh! Good question, father. Let me think about this as I talk through my answer!!!</span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;">The first image I remember, as a child, was the “flicker and dance” of light on a chrome spoon. The Light seemed to invade everything that I saw.<br /></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;">Light “glowed” from walls, windows, floors, furniture, and there was a “glitter” that came out of my father’s eyes and invaded his smile.</span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;">Light was everywhere and in everything- including me!!!<br /></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;">My bedroom was a full of deep shades and shadows. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;"><br />The light that came through the window in the morning: would “move across” the floor, crawl up onto the walls creating patterns that split, mixing and blended into geometric shapes that formed triangles, into squares, into rectangles with rounded edges.<br /></div></span><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;">Soon these patterns would become one great shadow in the corner or hide themselves in the closet as it seemed to turn into a cave- my future workshop with deep shades of grays and browns, and blacks filling the empty space.</span></div><span style="color:#000000;"><div align="left"><br />Now, that I look back on these early “visions” and the beauty and wonder they provided a small child: I am not so much attracted to the “beauty of what I see or saw” as I have become pre-occupied with the visual images within the light as it moves about and I move into and out of it. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">And, it this: </div><div align="left"><br />… <strong><em><span style="color:#ff6600;">I have come to wonder about a special “presence” that emerges from the light.</span></em></strong></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">This has become , for me, a quest a journey, a desire to enter into this light<br />On the canvas, tracing paper, the 4th Day journal I have added my “little marks”: </div><div align="left"><br />Intersecting lines forming surfaces and solids:</div><div align="left">... Alive as shades and now shadows as these structures begin to bathe in the light.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">For me this mysterious intersection of light, structure, geometry creating a Sacramental Presence in the Present Moment has become my source- a refuge, if you will- my Celetial Palace where I return to again and again. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">My secret place where everything can happen ---all at once!!! </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">I hope this gets to the spirit if not the heart of your question.</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Interview note taken from: </div><div align="left">SANCTUARY : Space, Symbol and Spirituality. 2003. </div><div align="left">Arch Angel Publications.</div><div align="left"> <a href="http://archangelpublications.com/2contactus/5.html">http://archangelpublications.com/2contactus/5.html</a></div><div align="left"></span></div><p align="left"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /></p>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-77840822341852622142009-02-01T07:36:00.001-08:002009-02-18T09:06:50.927-08:00CREATIVITY ::: FOUR<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJBSoZN9T4GIkjRugktR6btL5-osqu3Nj8tjbJcDdtyr1Y_e9dfCle86utllnOLf0hZlbSjv2tIr4wXye7waibJ92l0cWrIyqiMnztYp7SJzkNeFnClnE98eW0HS_Tj9vgNvvTJliqOMM/s1600-h/Circle20k.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297853607703291442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 195px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJBSoZN9T4GIkjRugktR6btL5-osqu3Nj8tjbJcDdtyr1Y_e9dfCle86utllnOLf0hZlbSjv2tIr4wXye7waibJ92l0cWrIyqiMnztYp7SJzkNeFnClnE98eW0HS_Tj9vgNvvTJliqOMM/s200/Circle20k.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">The Tool Kit of an Artisian: r.r.;ackney 1983 </span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/61.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/61.html</span></a></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Robert, do you apply a Creative Method or Process?</span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">1997 Interview: Institute for Liturgical Studies, Chicago</span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/85.html"><span style="font-size:78%;color:#3333ff;"><strong>http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/85.html</strong></span></a></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="left">Well, over the years we have uncovered many secrets to ignite the imagination. </div><div align="left">Remember there ar over 60 definitions for "Creativity"!</div><div align="left">"Creativity" has been attributed to: divine intervention, cognitive processes, social environment, personality traits, accident or “serendipity”. Creativity has been associated with genius, mental illness, and humor, considered by many as a trait we are born with, some say it cannot be taught. </div><div align="left">Others believe it can be taught and learned.’ </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">More than 60 different definitions of creativity exist and found in the psychological literature. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">My personal experience suggests that Creativity requires a functional definition to focus its use.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">For me,there is a depth of meaning … an underside … a hidden … almost instinctual to everything that we do … everything we do has meaning more than can be seen on the surface of things … we seem to be connected to a unity beyond our own self. </div><div align="left">I still at 70, return to my <strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Celestial Palace</span></em></strong> to recharge and awaken the fire within me!</div><div align="center"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/40.html"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/40.html</span></a></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Peace and Only Good Things</div><div align="left">robert r. lackney, </div><div align="left">Society of Sacred Art and Architecture, Inc.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>THE 8 CREATIVE THINGS<br /></strong></span>Passion + Work + Practice + Focus + Push + Service + Ideas + Persistence<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">THE 5 MIND SETS</span><br /></strong></span>Passion+ Determination+ Talent+ Self-determination+ faith<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">THE 4 DEADLY EVILS</span></strong><br />C= Criticism+ R= Rejection+ A= Arrogance+ P= Pressure </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">MY 8 PERSONAL BELIEFS</span></strong><br /></span>FAITH that design of Art and Architecture will lead to BEAUTY. To live lifetime of PASSION, the Creative mysteries are found in INNER SPLENDOR DELIGHT + AWE + WONDER. Belief that BEAUTY + TRUTH + GOODNESS are ideas worth spreading. That BEAUTY is the highest level ofhuman inspiaration. HARMONY is BEAUTY, TRUTH, GOODNESS, The Embrace of complelling. transcendental mysteries. The struggle to ponder and then embrace.MYSTERIES, not be thought of as GOD but experienced as the inner AMBER LIGHT CREATION’S LIGHT: The source of spiritual life.<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">THE 8 QUESTIONS</span></strong><br />What are my Background Perceptions? What is the Existing Situation? What is my Vision/Mission? What is my Conceptual Plan? What are my Resources? What is my Timeline? How am I doing? What do I really want to do?<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>8 FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS</strong><br /></span></span>What is real? What is the purpose of Life? How should I live my life? How can Freedom exist in a world determined by causal laws? When is it legitimate for one person to have power over others? What is Justice? What is Beauty? Who determines what is True?<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>THE 8 SELF-QUESTIONS</strong></span><br /></span>What brings me to this time? Will I leave something of value behind? Will there be something I leave that may inspire others? Will my work be helpful to someone else? Will I commit myself to something that will make a difference? Will I make my parents proud? Will there be something I did that helped the unprotected? Will I do nothing?<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">THE 8 MENTAL TOOLS</span><br /></span></strong>Experience, Memory, Association, Pattern Discernment /recognition, Reason, Invention, Experimentation, Intuition.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">THE 8 CREATIVE PROCESSES</span></strong><br /></span>The 8-Questions, Something: Nothing: Happenings, Dreams, Apparitions, Miracles4:Moments of Presence (faith/belief/ theology), About Questions and its Story 6:Intentions: others/self, , The 11 Levels of Anxiety, Ritual, Ceremony, Spectacle.<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">THE 8 LIFE THEMES</span><br /></span></strong>Life+ death, beginnings + endings, Love + service, Belief + Evolution, doubt + faith, “WOW” Experience, divine Presence, Past future: present.<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">THE 4 TECHNIQUES<br /></span></strong>1:Deduction: Conclusions based upon a set of premises: if the premises are true the conclusion then follows. Based upon the model presented within Euclidean Geometry proofs. Accepted as the basis of the Scientific Method. 2: Induction: Less ironclad than deduction process. This process surveys the evidence and then generalizes an explanation to account for the conclusion. Conclusion is “probable” but not certain. 3: Syllogism: A deductive argument with two premises and a conclusion. Greeks are mortal; Athenians are Greeks; Therefore all Athenians are mortal. 4:Dialectic: A Q/A dialogue that will uncover 1st principles.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">THE 4 P'S OF CREATIVITY</span></strong></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"><em></em></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"><em><strong>4 P's = PERSON + PROCESS + PRODUCT + PLACE</strong></em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"><em></em></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"><em></em></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"><em>Notes from: CREATIVITY Inspiration+ Spontaniety+ Imagination</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"><em>ISBN 0-7880-2047-1 CREATIVITY</em></span></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-56127274369819949352009-01-31T21:44:00.001-08:002009-02-01T18:25:52.761-08:00LEADERSHIP :: 1<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibikyG84PnUPoJ2LX54udkbybgYeERx458HvOPtDis_yrwrqOCHbthtzxI0secXmy-gQlZDUBil-EuM3YghKUJ_MzKGsUrYH4XCzbQZiAhHpDSwlyEP2qX6JUA5CpGF9bYtFuEH6DeS-Q/s1600-h/1angel1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297700832248744354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 158px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibikyG84PnUPoJ2LX54udkbybgYeERx458HvOPtDis_yrwrqOCHbthtzxI0secXmy-gQlZDUBil-EuM3YghKUJ_MzKGsUrYH4XCzbQZiAhHpDSwlyEP2qX6JUA5CpGF9bYtFuEH6DeS-Q/s200/1angel1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Sketch Florence 1988, r.r.lackney</span></div><p align="center"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/41.html"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;">http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/41.html</span></a></p><p align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">The best time for me was while in grade school at<br />Queen of the Holy Rosary Cathedral grade school.<br />I remember Sister Margaret leading the class to the playground.<br />The seats in the classroom were hard, cramped, and small<br />going outside was being released from the ‘cage’.<br />We were required to play a game that included:<br />7-10 children in single file trying to keep up with the<br />person directly in front. The person in front, the ‘1st Place’,</span></em></strong><br /><em><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">was usually a girl.<br />The girls sister said, always was better at following directions than boys.<br />The girl-leader was the leader of the band-<br />a small group of ‘urchins’.<br />The game rules were:<br />everything the leader did, no matter how difficult or ridiculous<br />the urchin-line had to copy.<br />We would spin, roll, crawl, jump, make noises,<br />and walk the footsteps wherever<br />Mary, Cindy, Phyllis, or Barbara would lead.<br />We all learned to do what it took to stay in the game.</span></strong></em> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><em><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-size:100%;">“Follow the Leader’ was a lot of fun in those days</span>."</span></em></strong><br /></span></p><p align="left"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">8 WAYS TO THINK ABOUT LEADERSHIP<br /></span></strong><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span></p><p align="left"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">1 ::: Leadership means a great deal: thinking and learning teams that create value<br />for the world who develop the ability to confront comlex problems.<br /></p></span></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span><p align="left"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">2 ::: Leaders have the ability to create: this is a great thing.<br /></p></span></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span><p align="left"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">3 ::: When leaders fail the entrerprise, institution, nation fails. </span></span></p><p align="left"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">4 ::: Leaders are the guardians of society- that is a leaders job of he elite, the leaders.</span><br /></span></p><p align="left">5 ::: We need to train leaders to lead: the lawyers, teachers, doctors, care givers,<br />police, civil servants, engineers, designers, and the journalists.</p><p align="left">6 ::: The leaders are the managers: when they fail those that follow suffer. </p><p align="left">7::: Sooner or later we all must become a part of a “thinking team”<br />( the Meta-Group): whose mission is to confront complex problems.<br /></p><p align="left">8 ::: The mission of leadership is to “create”: the most empowering thing that can happen to a person.</p><p align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong></p><p align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">8 KEY ISSUES</span></strong></p><p align="left"><br />1 ::: What is the imapct on our institutions due to:<br />Corruption, Weak Institutions, and The People who run them?<br /></p><p align="left">2 ::: Where are these leaders coming from? Where do these people come from?<br />What is about eductaion that produces leaders who are not ethical and cannot solve problems?<br />What is the impact of entitlement versus responsibiliy ?<br /></p><p align="left">3 ::: We must be intentional as to how we train our leaders:<br />go into the school- the courses they take. Many of these people have a strong sense of<br />entitlement not responsibility and we must be intentional as to how we train teachers.<br /></p><p align="left">4 ::: How do we confront and ask the right questions and come up with the right solutions?<br /></p><p align="left">5 ::: The Mission is to train a set of new people who are ethical and creative<br />who can come up with creative solutions to society’s promblems.<br /></p><p align="left">6 ::: Leaders need the skills to engage the world and good things will happen!<br /></p><p align="left">7 ::: Craft an Honor Code for ourselves that holds all accountable.<br /></p><p align="left">8 ::: Can we create a perfect society and reach towards perfection? We cannot accomplish perfection but we can attain excellance.</p><p align="left"></p><p align="left"><strong><em><span style="color:#3333ff;">We must re-think the fundamental processes of leadership, the gift of human imagination and learn to see beyond what we do not know, then educate our whole being to act when we are uncertain of the decision outcomes.</span></em></strong></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><p align="center"><br /></p></span><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><p align="center"><br /></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><div align="center"><br /></span><br /></div><div align="center"></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-75169814042962209572009-01-31T21:28:00.000-08:002009-01-31T21:40:46.564-08:00LEADERSHIP :: 2<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj186T9hlcvlJYf26FPLF9mokEOlJg9m3OibVyqyogzRfPty3DroVtjaTm6rA7l9hyphenhyphen6jWLR0eXikyALeqxO-M207NtHzjXuFKCdjKzQS_mJEBpSpq1rb75iaVFdl-vwcitHR-LFbQnsyZ0/s1600-h/Sq6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297696869563149474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 198px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj186T9hlcvlJYf26FPLF9mokEOlJg9m3OibVyqyogzRfPty3DroVtjaTm6rA7l9hyphenhyphen6jWLR0eXikyALeqxO-M207NtHzjXuFKCdjKzQS_mJEBpSpq1rb75iaVFdl-vwcitHR-LFbQnsyZ0/s200/Sq6.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">The Limits of Knowledge, 2000 r.r.lackney</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/61.html">http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/61.html</a></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>“Without a Vision the People will perish”<br /></em></strong></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Ghandi</span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><p align="center"><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">ARCHANGEL’S 10 LEADERSHIP REALITIES</span></strong><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">1ST REALITY<br /></span></strong>You are in business for yourself. Seek the good of those all you work: Staff/Clients<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">2ND REALITY</span></strong><br />You cannot will evil for yourself. Your ideals focus the daily goals to do the good.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">3RD REALITY</span></strong><br /></span>We always “think” we are better than the leaders. Comparing one’s self to others destroys the team, diminishes its spirit.<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">4TH REALITY</span></strong><br />Deep down we do not want to build a team. You must realize that you cannot do the work yourself. You must build a team.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">5TH REALITY</span></strong><br /></span>People see you for your actions not your theories. What you say and do not say, your manners, behaviors, your likes and dislikes, your opinions, and thoughts have a powerful impact on others around you.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>6TH REALITY</strong></span><br />Your approach to management is based on your personal vision and the perception you have of yourself. What is your Vision?<br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>7TH REALITY</strong></span><br />The team “Visions” the full potential of the work. Your responsibility: to clarify vision<br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>8TH REALITY</strong></span><br />Without the team the practice will not achieve full potential: Each person is vital.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>9TH REALITY<br /></strong></span>Training remains the responsibility of management: Developing talents & skills.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>10TH REALITY<br /></strong></span>Personal goals affect & impact the work: Fulfillment, Respect, Security, Acceptance, Creativity, Knowledge, Challenge, & Love.</span><br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"></p><div align="center"><br /></div></span><div align="center"></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-23129056380013053042009-01-31T10:38:00.001-08:002009-01-31T13:21:56.003-08:00INNOVATION :: 1<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHG6WV5PwsJAJXMK4Z9sC-eIkwxp7mkcWby2JE1Lmon58YJ75Gjt_pcb9ZkzzUFWmSQYrhE3M5W19DoUKXUHa1LVIKBPMMmJDcp8p70B5_AXksEDd5DrtEjFEdcPcvz9Fax1KUM90OxQ/s1600-h/Deccosmic+1c.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297529991409163954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 170px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHG6WV5PwsJAJXMK4Z9sC-eIkwxp7mkcWby2JE1Lmon58YJ75Gjt_pcb9ZkzzUFWmSQYrhE3M5W19DoUKXUHa1LVIKBPMMmJDcp8p70B5_AXksEDd5DrtEjFEdcPcvz9Fax1KUM90OxQ/s200/Deccosmic+1c.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> !!!!CAAAAARACKKKKKKKKKKKKKZIPPPPPPPPPCHINGTHU!!! </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">r.r.lackney 2000 </span></div><p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p>Years ago I asked my father, ‘How do I make Dreams come true?’</p><p>He turned and looked straight into my eyes and said: “Simple. Don’t sleep!’</p><p>We all know sleepless nights are part of any real achievement. </p><p>Staying awake is part and parcel to any True Achievement: writing a poem, an article, a novel- making a painting from a <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">FEELING,</span></strong> an image, a sketch, rehearsing lines, composing a tune, blowing a glass vase, carving marble, building a home.</p><p>Take this <strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">DREAM</span></strong> I had: awake at 2AM, 3AM, and 4AM. </p><p>Sometimes in a sweat with fragmented ideas thrashing around in my head: </p><p>“How big? How much? How soon?</p><p>Staring at the moonlight shadows on the bedroom ceiling, sorting through advice of the bankers, accountants, experts, and lawyers carrying yellow legal scratch pads. Half awake I try my best to crowd out all doubt that I can meet the design challenge: then the grinding of teeth, and deciding to make it happen before sunrise.</p><p>My mentor told me that: “All good things start in believing and then the keeping of the dream.”<br />And, I believed him, I still do. That is my experience.<br /></p><p>And, the great spirit within asked as I awoke from my sleep:<br />“ … do you need a helping hand to make your dream come true?“</p><p>Yes!!!” I said: and the voice whispered:“ Look at the end of your arm!”</p><p><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>INNOVATION</strong></span></p><p>"The word “innovation” has never meant much in isolation.<br />To create innovative offerings and sustainable growth requires the alignment of an organization’s goals, people, resources, and culture.<br /></p><p>So, when we designers think about innovation as it relates to client objectives, the words “design”, “business,” and “strategy” are never far behind.<br /></p><p>Innovation means being receptive to cultural and market trends, and applying this knowledge in forward-thinking ways to generate groundbreaking and desirable products and services for our clients. This my source of “sleepless” nights and long workdays:<br /></p><p align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Creativity leads to innovation and has always been cumulative and collaborative.</span></em></strong><br /></p><p><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>CREATIVE IMAGINATION + INSPIRATION + INNOVATION</strong></span></p><p>1 ::: Inspiration: where does it come from? For me it does not come from research. I do research because it is interesting and it fills my mind with the details hidden beneath the thoughts I have.</p><p>2 ::: I like movies: adventures that take me to places I may never be able to go. I like colors: natural color is so beautiful. I lay awake at night: staying awake is a good thing. I go into vacant buildings:I embrace the past sounds of the voices that once lived and worked there. I visit cementaries: I listen to the spirits.</p><p>3 ::: Walking around: allows me to do a lot of things and deal directly with uncertainties, circumstances, expectations. Creative Imagination , for me, is the narrative of Innovation and Invention.</p><p>4 ::: ‘The more radical the innovation - the more uncertainty - the more we need innovation and collaboration within our meta group.</p><p>5 ::: At the moment of creation – in a dream - at the work bench – making a choice the truth is that all Innovation is accumulative and collaborative.</p><p>Innovation is the fruit of Creative Imagination. We place our ideas and passion into objects- we learn to speak through our hands solving problems and making meaningful things. </p><p>Working with the support of a “Meta-Group” of financiers, legal counsel, and technical experts. </p><p>This is the process that makes “Big Ideas” a reality</p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">.r.r. lackney, 2000 presentation: “Passion: Intuitions”,<br />Society of Sacred Art and ArchitectureInc.Inc.<br /><a href="http://www.archangelpublications.com/">http://www.archangelpublications.com/</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/85.html"><span style="color:#3333ff;">http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/85.html</span></a><br /></p></span>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-60277756440883044682009-01-30T20:17:00.000-08:002009-01-31T22:28:56.645-08:00INNOVATION ::: 2<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr4q90LOhbTg0j4K44ADHux6jZoVok9zGBbu24Sp1sdBuEdNCVCCy27Zb9Kf4zuLUrzq5HPZVZuugNhSoLu7GIyLPULizakjByTGPMQdIFWmZjsggFW4oBliIXZkaz83olw2IUpCHirUc/s1600-h/1innovation2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297711648073522594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 276px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr4q90LOhbTg0j4K44ADHux6jZoVok9zGBbu24Sp1sdBuEdNCVCCy27Zb9Kf4zuLUrzq5HPZVZuugNhSoLu7GIyLPULizakjByTGPMQdIFWmZjsggFW4oBliIXZkaz83olw2IUpCHirUc/s320/1innovation2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY_vqvNfJFjrwOaubWHvp-YzJoMx6MrIFiSjP1T_tsT47R_BCUEIIkARvVOHWAi6qzqU42cinKBvDHIymfsKlBTOeweQcT_utEKsfnGA_NeShrHGJ_-amd44cWlIK3vq5zdp5BvsPca7M/s1600-h/1innovation2.jpg"></a><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">The New Organization: 2008</span></div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:78%;">AA: copyright 2003</span></em> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">r.r.lackney</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">The monks traveling with of Saint Francis of Assisi, in 1217, cautioned the Great Mystic saying: </span></div><br /><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>“ Unless we organize these fellows … they will turn on us and we will be no more”. </em></strong></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">Even those sent into this world to serve God had to <strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">“Organize”</span></strong> their operations. </span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">We live in a time, where our educational leaders, institution, and marketplace are dominated by the compulsive commitment and the shrill calls to change.</span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">Fortunately, the limits of knowledge continue to expand beyond our visions but not beyond our dreams. I suggest that we honor the counsel of St. Francis’ as he answered his monks: </span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">“Yes, we must organize the monks… but quench not their spirits!”<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">FREEDOM + INTUITION + SYNERGY<br /></span></strong>These pathways become the mental images where like-minded people are engaged and opened to possibilities and alternative approaches to the issues and concerns of the problems that are being explored. </span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#3333ff;"><strong>These creative process(s) have the potential to make the vision a reality. </strong></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">Nothing happens without people. A team, a “meta-group” takes on its own personality and the collective knowledge flows out of its shared attitudes, behaviors and most importantly, from the mutual relationships that form among the “collective”.</span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">One’s inner purpose provides the “stuff” of the core values that will define the collective, the team, and the meta-group. </div><br /><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Basic values such as:</div><div align="left">Lifetime Learning, Trust, Commitment, Accountability, Integrity, Responsiveness, Inclusive Contribution are the kinds of principles that help the group (and the organization) shape the outcomes and solutions to the concerns at hand.</div><br /><div align="left">Beyond these basic values is the collective mind set that makes creative thought possible and turns the “Ordinary”, “Mundane”, and “Mediocre” into the “Extraordinary” solutions to problems.<br />Freedom, Intuition and Synergy are the ideals that shine in the distance so that our goals may be shaped so that we may be empowered to create the “magic” that gives us the power to fulfill our dreams.Innovation is an adventure in creativity. </div><br /><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Where strategies are put into place because leaders can envision the future and identify opportunities that define “pathways”, “doorways”, or “ways of thinking”.</span><br /></div><br /><p align="left">r.r.lackney, excerpts from :" EDUCATION DESIGN AND PRACTICE". Archangel Aublications, Inc.Copyright 2000, Society of Sacred Art and Architecture, Inc.</p><p align="left"><a href="http://www.archangelpublications.com/">http://www.archangelpublications.com/</a> " Ideas Worth Spreading #81<a href="http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/86.html"><span style="color:#3366ff;">http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/86.html</span></a></p><p align="left"></span></p><span style="font-size:78%;">r.r. lackney<br />2000 presentation: “Passion: Intuitions”,<br />Society of Sacred Art and ArchitectureInc.Inc.</span><p align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;">http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/86.html</span> </p><br /><div align="center"><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></p></span><br /><div align="center"><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div align="center"></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-39442406658261217792009-01-29T21:50:00.001-08:002009-02-18T09:03:11.093-08:00CREATIVE IMAGINATION<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2cdEJPdhFFfjggFDiXC_BRFQyu_bDdWBPq_fzcS6DJD1xMwKp2_PujLssR2Qit5LpVVWaRlsnwqrLBgmkw2uYF5QxyA8wwLiITtiDX-DV0q5DeyvEcJDeHIeFjJHQO1-BhWzDs9wiD6k/s1600-h/1+Florence1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296960219660001842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 198px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2cdEJPdhFFfjggFDiXC_BRFQyu_bDdWBPq_fzcS6DJD1xMwKp2_PujLssR2Qit5LpVVWaRlsnwqrLBgmkw2uYF5QxyA8wwLiITtiDX-DV0q5DeyvEcJDeHIeFjJHQO1-BhWzDs9wiD6k/s200/1+Florence1.jpg" border="0" /></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Sketch by r.r.lackney, Florence Baptistry, 1996</span></em></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><p><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">CURIOSITY</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">My father talked and planted a wonderful dream into me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Andrew gave me “corner” assignments:</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">… I was to draw something that I see ... or a picture from my mind!</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">… “Draw anything !”, my dad would say.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Over the years these “drawing assignments” turned into lessons for learning:</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">… Mathematics, music, book reading, and essay writing and listening sessions of family stories.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">… Then there were the places he visited as a young man, people he had met.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Stories so rich in detail they filled every "nook and corner" within my mind, burned images into my heart, awakened my spirit so that I was "transported" to new worlds beyond my own! </span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Even today I feel as though I am at the side of my father as he walked and smiled on the streets of Chicago, w</span><span style="font-size:100%;">orked at the Studabaker plant in South Bend, or p</span><span style="font-size:100%;">addling an open row boat across the night waves of Lake Erie, "</span><span style="font-size:100%;">smuggling” Scotch whisky from Canada onto the North shore cities of Ohio.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">These stories fueled my “imagination”, and come</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> alive at the slightest encouragement.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">I credit my father for giving me a <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">“Creative Imagination”</span></strong> that would become my life long "counselor" to help me make A life of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">A life fueled by an <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">"Insatiable Curiosity"</span></strong> that leads me to live each day as if it was a Saturday were I feel I could live forever.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">The “Secret”, my dad taught me, was to develop:</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">… an insatiable desire to know- an irresistible desire to know about everything we come into contact with no matter the subject, no matter how complicated, simplistic or esoteric it might at first seem in this we will continue to create our future ...</span></em></strong><br /></p></span><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"><strong>CREATIVE IMAGINATION: PRINCIPLES TO WORK BY</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">1 ::: <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Creative Imagination:</span></strong> it is not our faith that makes creativity- it is our belief in the “invisible and the invisible” that each child experiences. We are led by our “faith” * in our self, our mentor, or our God.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">2 ::: <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Reality:</span></strong> We must keep our feet anchored in reality. An “exaggeration” in the teaching-workroom emerges as a disaster in the real world.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">3::: <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Creative Work:</span></strong> We create something visible and real, out of something invisible and not real, our dreams and inspirations:a sketch scattered dots, lines strokes, and smudges becoming the vision of something that does not yet exist!</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">4 ::: <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Honesty and Integrity:</span></strong> Is central and a must and the continous search for truth.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">5 ::: <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Building Things:</span></strong> Students are capable of transforming ordinary things, notions theories, ideas and activities into extraordinary events in light and through their beliefs that flow from deep within their faith.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">6</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> ::: <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Teachers and Mentors:</span></strong> We are led to the canvas, to the music score, the stone quarry, and the construction site by our beliefs flowing from the tension within the great dualities: Science:Art, Life: Death, Light:Dark, and </span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">... At the shoulders of a parent, teacher, and maybe a stranger who take the time to share their dreams with us and we can share our dreams with them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Our Mentors help us to see over the horizons and look beyond ourselves.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">7</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> ::: <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Personal Accomplishments:</span></strong> Learning to speak with your hands, triggered by an inner enegry, expressed through the eyes and mind the need to create ambiguous things, the clean aesthetic remains pathways to personal accomplishment.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">8 ::: <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Sacred Doorways:</span></strong> Imagining yourself in situations … the invention of your own little world ... your Celestial Palace where anything can be all at once … where a work of art can be created that is so subjective so sectet that no one wll know what is the best color, form ,or sound.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Creativity is important within the school system maybe more than the great works of matematics, life sciences, literature, and the technical studies that cause us to the "right" answer and never be "wrong".</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;color:#3333ff;"><strong><em>Creativity allows us to be wrong:</em></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;color:#3333ff;"><strong><em>"We all grow out of "education: or we are educated out of it!"<br /></p></em></strong></span><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Note: Michelangelo was also a child … think of him as 7 or 10 … and a teacher saying to him in the modern classroom: “ Put that pencil down and quit drawing things like that!”<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">r.r.lackney interview notes 1998. "Ideas Worth Spreading" </span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Society of Sacred Art and Architecture, Inc. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Web Site:<a href="http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/85.html">http://archangelpublications.com/8IIdeasWorthy/85.html</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">CREATIVITY:::</span></strong> <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">The 4 P's = Person +Process + Product + Place</span></strong> </p><p><br /></p></span></span><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><div align="center"><br /></div></em><div align="center"></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-59036820132382941252009-01-28T22:04:00.000-08:002009-01-29T22:08:35.707-08:00LOVE + WORK + KNOWLEDGE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivUOpX_u38St8ZmxMxdjV1QYCYHUdbxkAgmykieLTQKaZgKiPRmhJI5uTerEWFVFbI-zgr1EIOfCJ8wKxRkKZR4v0uaA73z545G0Vmhiw_O75aXGaQmoSEhoy4SiYISb6poKJt6476wGk/s1600-h/Time2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296593020506223234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 248px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 235px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivUOpX_u38St8ZmxMxdjV1QYCYHUdbxkAgmykieLTQKaZgKiPRmhJI5uTerEWFVFbI-zgr1EIOfCJ8wKxRkKZR4v0uaA73z545G0Vmhiw_O75aXGaQmoSEhoy4SiYISb6poKJt6476wGk/s320/Time2.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> My grandmother, Aunt Lizzie, taught me to think about school as a train filled with books, computers, classrooms, parking lots, students, teachers, coaches, and principals chugging to its destination at the speed of 9 months per year.<br /><br />Aunt Lizzie said: </span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">“We all … are on a great journey working towards a future life of Love, Work, and Knowledge.”<br /><br />The <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">BIG QUESTION</span></strong> for educational leaders and parents:<br />“Will the train our children journey end in Florence, Rome and Paris? Or Siberia?”<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">LOVE + WORK + KNOWLEDGE</span></strong><br /><br />Education goes to the inner core of people and takes us into a future that we can only guess:<br />1 ::: Ask: 'How do we educate for the future?'<br />2 ::: Ask: 'Do we prepare children, teachers, and educators for their future roles in society?'</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">3 ::: Ask: 'Who comes out of the top of the educational system after 16 years of schooling?'</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">4 ::: Ask: 'Does our educational system trully develop creativity, innovation, and leadership?'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Education provides a diet of mathematics, sciences, humanities, art, and dance to a system designed to encourage students to enter college, become university professors or trained for a job in the Justice System, Health System, Educational System, and the Government System.<br /><br />Today, more people will be graduating from our schools than in the entire history of humanity.<br />And, it seems no one has a “clue” what the future challenges will be or how to educate children or teachers to provide the solutions to uncertainities that lie before us.<br /><br />The solution may be hidden within the </span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Principle of Unpredictability</span></strong>: </span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">‘... Unless you are prepared to be wrong you will never come up with an original idea ... ’</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">robert r. lackney, president<br />Society of Sacred Art and Architecture, Inc.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Copyright material: The Educational Foundation, Inc. </span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">December, 2008</span>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-42463256988930646302009-01-28T08:29:00.000-08:002009-02-03T16:36:30.074-08:00EDUCATION + THINKING + TOYS<div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0M58zVOw6-P7a0iCkSUqiT8fBveV8jORLNzKDdLqjTgOQr6QkRKh68460w0rnKJkI1cNQ5ZVy8-I9YijnOpPUuUExDYvjuxxVRq2Rq2a4F687ZxRTAcol71qKTmWOhUwJ_FXT6xMWK5g/s1600-h/1TOYS4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296383270137692706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 248px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0M58zVOw6-P7a0iCkSUqiT8fBveV8jORLNzKDdLqjTgOQr6QkRKh68460w0rnKJkI1cNQ5ZVy8-I9YijnOpPUuUExDYvjuxxVRq2Rq2a4F687ZxRTAcol71qKTmWOhUwJ_FXT6xMWK5g/s320/1TOYS4.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/61.html"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#000099;">http://archangelpublications.com/6publications/61.html</span></a><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">My 1ST “TOYS”:</span></strong> At the age of 4, I discovered my toys while sitting at my corner worktable while drawing squares and circles on white grid papers supplied to me by my father.<br />These neat little shapes and forms became my silent friends during the “time outs” my dad required when I refused to eat the canned corm my mother made for the evening supper.<br />I would draw little “crosses” in the Squares. Then make “+” signs in the circles.<br />My father told me that the plus signs were secrets that had been hidden by the angels so that I could spend a lifetime finding them.<br />Secrets. AH! Yes! The hidden manna! Mysteries to ponder and then to enjoy!<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">EDUCATION+ THINKING + TOYS<br /></span></strong>1 ::: Education begins at the shoulders of a father, mother, mentor, and a stranger who are willing to share their dreams with us.<br />2 ::: Play is the powerful way that we learn : not only as child but also has an adult.<br />3 ::: We learn by doing and thinking with our hands We make little toys to play with.<br />4 ::: Making things allows you to talk about what you are trying to say.<br />5 ::: An artisan must be able to build something- their toys- whenever and wherever they want.<br />6 ::: An artisan never needs permission to think with the hands to make toys.<br /><br />robert r. lackney<br />Copyright material from Society of Sacred Art and Architecture, Inc. web site.<br /></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-9963526269714725702009-01-27T12:42:00.000-08:002009-01-31T13:31:01.257-08:00<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-0eDbyhPjRR3I40ImPd5bmP0oE_AOz_H10VDJ9E29KKn6VvdA5kBjifG47DZVJiyQmfiiP7OMZ8TJnU5jUzIy-pSUk6Mt3nINxmXSkHLy4oX5kBvsgQr_6wvJtUdXZHryUrhAWA-wiE/s1600-h/1angel4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296076969694646530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 242px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-0eDbyhPjRR3I40ImPd5bmP0oE_AOz_H10VDJ9E29KKn6VvdA5kBjifG47DZVJiyQmfiiP7OMZ8TJnU5jUzIy-pSUk6Mt3nINxmXSkHLy4oX5kBvsgQr_6wvJtUdXZHryUrhAWA-wiE/s320/1angel4.jpg" border="0" /></a> The Angels of Ink and Colors bring the songs and melodies of heaven </div><div align="center"><a href="http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/41.html"><span style="font-size:78%;color:#3333ff;">http://archangelpublications.com/4sacredimages/41.html</span></a></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166107210450433409.post-28997219197700160572009-01-27T12:30:00.000-08:002009-06-27T11:39:03.072-07:00THE CHILD'S IMAGINATION<div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WE PLAY:<br /></span></strong>The desire to learn & to know is the ever expanding addiction. </div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WE HEAR THE INNER VOICE:</span></strong><br />The inventory of your background perceptions/pre-conceptions and search for truth </div><div align="center">To learn for oneself through exploration of the existing circumstances of the real world </div><div align="center">and the elimination of crippling emotions.<br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WE SEE:<br /></span></strong>Feeling alive! Excited about the sun, air, rain a trip a walk-running: </div><div align="center">immersion into a sensual experience.<br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WE EXPECT:<br /></span></strong>The process of questioning things while working [or asleep]. T</div><div align="center">o endure the confusions in the mind. To enjoy and feel at home with the unknown.<br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WE IMAGE:<br /></span></strong>Creativity emerges from uncertainty: a mixture of “what is and what is not”, </div><div align="center">“visible/ invisible”, “realities/ llusions” : inner life experience.<br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WE ARE CONFIDENT:</span></strong><br />The balance of actions and thought with Humility and Reverence.<br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WE DREAM:</span></strong><br />Pursue how your dreams, goals, daily activities, aspirations are related and </div><div align="center">integrated and how things are put together.<br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WE WORK:<br /></span></strong>Commitment to independent work, study, and travel when alone.<br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WE LIVE IN THE INNER LIFE:</span></strong><br />Catching the inner flow of sensations, forms, colors, image clusters, amber lights, and </div><div align="center">the shiny objects that pass your way.<br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">WE RECOGNIZE:</span></strong></div><div align="center">Reward, respect and the knowledge that what you are doing is needed.</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div>AA :: Archangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919227275737626682noreply@blogger.com0