Saw this site today, What I learned Today. It has lots of great economic news coverage with a very nice simple design. It got linked to over at boingboing on this piece about GM.

0.000000435%

is roughly the percent of GM that we each own.

$362 is what each of us paid for that equity stake.

Will you and I get a good ROI?

It's easy to look at this situation in a "where is my money" way. It seems very unlikely that this company will ever be valued at what it used to be valued, and even less likely to be valued nearly 50% more! But thinking about it more, I don't really even know what that means for Gm to be Valued at some billions of dollars. It is such an abstract concept to view any huge company as a dollar figure and even more abstract to think that I have somehow given GM 362 dollars. So I kinda take these numbers lightly.

It rains in June once a decade maybe and this year it added a little excitement to our chalk drawing project at Hyde. Though everything went off without a hitch and there were some really nice drawings.

Check out the gallery

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When I figure out how to embed video here, I will make a shot video of images and audio recordings I made while the students worked on their pieces.

I just sent off an email to the entire middle school where I work as a substitute art teacher telling them that 2 periods of kids will be doing chalk drawings all around campus. Until now only the principal and our classes knew what we were up to. And tomorrow the rest of the students should be walking over and around the drawings and talking, scoffing, laughing, marveling, and what-have-you about them.

David Lynch is among a handful of film makers that really refined my sense of the art. I'm not not saying that I have a refined taste in films, but rather, they refined my perception and thought process while watching films. Every film has something to offer, but a David Lynch film is so full of genius that I am exhausted half way through. They are marathons of intellectual might that I used to take very seriously as an exercise of my mind and my perception of society.
Catching up on BoingBoing today, I ran across his latest project Interview Project. I have since distanced myself from film media for various reasons and I never really dug into who David Lynch was beyond the director of "Blue Velvet" and other such masterpieces. But it turns out he is also into meditation and has a foundation to further his practice and mission.

In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence—bliss—the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation. --David Lynch

I spent a good deal of time this memorial day weekend working in the front yard. I had some help one day from my sister in-law and cousin and that made the work speed by as we shared stories not worth repeating, but no less meaningful(not to mention funny!). [For some really good writing on the subject of (repeatable) stories, check out this posting by our friend Chad working in Chattanooga on a farm.] I tried to share my thoughts praising manual labor, I think maybe a little bit got through, but they peeled off after a while to play cornhole. Can anyone blame them! Our pile of weeds mounded up tangled with a green plastic mesh that must have been put down under the sod when it was laid decades back. I continue to work through my difficult feelings on labor, suburbia, living, and the environment.