My creativity hasn't been at its prime lately, and hence no inspiration for a blog post. I think this is due to excessive reading of scholarly literature. My head is not only full of information, but a mess of what we'd call "elastic" words. Terms that people stretch to fit whatever point they're trying to make. Words many of us don't really understand but still choose to use in daily conversation. Globalization, individualization v. individualism, social capital, social cohesion and integration, and on and on. It's interesting to read back to back articles regarding the same topic, yet written entirely different. I mean, there's no actual definition for the term social capital (you can even check wikipedia). And after reading other peoples' opinions on the people that tried to define it's opinions in nearly 7 different pieces of literature...it feels like a mean joke. I think this is what I signed up for though. And oddly enough, in a few hours after I recover from theoretical overload, I realize that I absolutely love the messiness of trying to figure out our world.
And on that note...
My wonderful friend Sara had some people from our program over for dinner last week. She prepared some yummy food and we all enjoyed drinks besides the typical mid-class coffee. Here are some photos:
Henning and Pamela
Me and Sara
Hanging out
Me and Reuben, being slightly awkward
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Our son recently got an augmentative communication device called the Tango! (from Blink Twice)
One of the selling points was its social capital. The hardware was created by people involved with the X-Box. It's supposed to look like a gaming device, and attract other children.
This is in contrast to older, clunker hardware made by Prentke Romich and Dynavox, leadinig makers of AAC devices.
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