Lynn's Comments

OK, i've joined... now what?

i'm there... right now; was chatting with Twain.

this virtual stuff is addictive - i think i should be busy doing something real...

i'm headed out of the office now to the So. CO Sustainable Communities Conference... i'll mostly be tied up with that for the next couple of days... will get on-line at home tonight, after a Board meeting for CVAE... later...

long day... 23 miles on the bike... never got above 30 degrees today... man, this weather, it's like November or something!

i remember one particular November in Durango with morning temperatures in single digits or negatives for over three weeks... that was back in the day when i went out for 6-8 mile run every morning... frosty beard days. by comparison, Colorado Springs is 'banana belt'. but biking when it's cold is another thing entirely: to warm up you ride harder. that only increases the wind chill... you work-up a sweat climbing hills and freeze coming down.

we have dry to spare... if we could export dry CO would have it made. but, as i grew up in Chicago, i know humid, too. i'll take dry any day.
going out to ride some hills on a bright sunny day!

we watched the Maddow-Redford interview... i'll contact congress & the pres-elect... they always listen to me (especially our local congress-guy Doug Lamebrain er, Lambourn).

Well, if sense of humor is required, I'm here :)

It was your colorful DNA image that came up in a Google search for a good one that got me by happy happenstance to this network. I was rereading a paper on Dialogue I'd written a few years ago and found myself wondering about the technical aptness of a DNA metaphor I used and started searching for answers to my question. And here I am hours later LOL, playing with my newfound dialogic friends. What is your perspective on dialogue, Lynn?

Lynne

Please tell me about this special DNA...

As to the relief of a different subject matter RE dialogue. I know you dialogue all the time as a geek, and I have a particular curiosity about whether and how dialogue at a distance/mediated dialogue/dialogue in a low-touch environment differs from high-touch face-to-face sustained dialogic communication.

Dialogue/Appreciative Inquiry has been a passion of mine for years and years, and like poetry, took a back seat to my day jobs which largely kept me where the rubber hits the road and starts to fray eg low-income neighborhoods and race relations. I've quite recently promised myself we've had enough of that! and am reinventing myself, taking off into in the world of, for example, Dialogue on Wicked Problems and dialogues with geeks in cyberspace :) I've leaped from the proverbial ledge and am praying that the platform or pair of wings appears!

Going to post a paper on dialogue that I wrote, basically for fun, but also to turn in to two grad classes that I was sitting in on in '05, again, for fun. I adhered to some strictures eg assigned length, but veered way out of the bounds of academe in other ways. Sense of humor required everywhere!

hmmmm back. have to go too. paper is very basic but hope it'll get dialogue going. am i in a distinct minority as a non-geek new networker herein? lynne

ah ha. thanks for the info.

Thanks. I was bushed when I posted that, and actually just elaborated the beginning and reposted. Look forward to continued communication. Yes, my gang in grad school had a couple of us from the USofA, but were mostly from other places: Japan, Lesotho, Sudan, Portugal, Kenya, Costa Rica, Malaysia, China, Brazil, Botswana, Ecuador....you get the picture. We called ourselves The Camel, because we created classes by committee (us) which were definitely horses of another color with odd humped profiles. I was the program and curriculum development assistant to the chair and knew how to get proposals through the system and into the timetable of classes offered -- so we had fascinating topics to walk through together! They are the editorial board in my mind when I walk, talk, write, even think. I like it that way :) My old poetry group is another internal blog always in motion. As well my old OD/HRD colleagues from an annual conference, also dedicated to world peace, that used to take place here in WI. Here's hoping this net will be a welcome addition to my global mind! Lynne

"i'm a geek, but love the dna graphic as it's special dna"

You never did particularize that DNA graphic for me.... I was attracted to the rainbow colors of that Google image in particular. Now you've got me really curious! Is it a colleague's or your creation, a strand of something of import to you, spill :) if you will. Lynn with an "e"

Tease! I love your sense of humor. And you still owe me, unless your last comment was cut off. Gotta go to Tai Chi. I'm back onto you when I return :) I'm very persistent.

ok, you're off the hook on that.

Not being a geek, I could easily overlook Google's evil ways. One of my friend's daughters works there, which is how I got on gmail in the first place. Tell me more about this.

Both. I am always interested in learning, information gathering being one part of that process. But that's not enough for me, lack's the depth I'm interested in. So to answer your question, once I am oriented to this net and how I might intersect with it, I'm interested in DOING dialogue. I've had two holographic visions of tools that could be used in dialogic process, years ago actually, but never had a technological sense of how they could be created in reality. Seeing that and such things happen is also under my interest in dialogue, alongside my actual experience using it in face-to-face situations. Does that answer, or begin to answer your question? What is underneath your wonderment?

thanks . i'm tired of being such a baby geek so i think i'm going to do an internship offered hereabouts and get some savvy :) . can be done at your own pace in spare time . i've been doing little mini-immersions like that since the late 1970s when i actually learned some basic and batching, arghhh . yes, knew about china, not utube, and haven't tried twining . what's your interest in or work with dialog/ue? . i've ignore the blogs and tweets all this time, and only recently set up a facebook page because two poet friends in particular and my older godkids finally got to me on doing it

one of my handfull of facebook friends, a graphic artist, sent me the following:

I encourage everyone who could use a good laugh (and who couldn't, really?) to check out Slowpoke Comics by Jen Sorensen---now a semi-finalist in the 2009 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies awards! A new toon every Monday starts your week off right with razor sharp commentary and knee-slapping humor, dagnabbit!

sense of humor required everywhere . thought you'd get a giggle

you could visit him at KRUPTOONS.com . i enjoy his drawings the most

exactly! been trying to find a way to constructively tell him this so that he'd hear it and it could transform his work form the inside out ever since i met him some 10 yrs ago . maybe feedback from a relative stranger like you who nevertheless appreciates his portals drawings series would be a gift . he has a wonderful new woman in his life, now another beloved poet friend for me! and i think she may help him cross this bridge laughing LOL . he does understand that there's too much edge there, though . my godkids, on the other hand, totally get his work and love it . he should probably have been born in Japan and just recently have come of age in the world of graphics and if this were the case, i think he'd really take off