[FRIAM] Instructional scaffolding - Wikipedia

[Stephen Guerin]

Nick asks:
| How do you imagine Her.

I interpret the Archer to be symbolism of an Immanent God in the
pantheistic tradition of Spinoza and Harold Morowitz. Looking a little into
Khalil Gibran, he is described as a pantheist and Sufi mystic on Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran>..

You've referenced this poem twice now and I was curious what the symbolism
was for you (Not necessarily if you believe it).

If you want to stick with your original answer, we can return this thread
to plumbing the semantic depths of "scaffolding" ;-p

-Stephen


On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 6:12 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Steve,
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> She’s about seven feet tall, has two gigantic hounds at her side, wears
> tall boos, short skirt, works out like CRAZY.  When she bends the bow, she
> always say, “Easy now.  Relax.  This may stretch a bit.”  Despite this
> kindly warning, I am never ready for the “twang!”
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> How do you imagine Her.
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> Nick
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> Nick Thompson
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Stephen Guerin
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 10, 2021 5:54 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Instructional scaffolding - Wikipedia
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> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 5:48 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Or as Kahil Gibran once famously said: “You are the bow from which your
> children as arrows fly; let you bending in the hands of The Archer be for
> joy.”
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> Nick you turned me on to this poem a couple of weeks ago and I think it's
> beautiful. Who/What do you understand the Archer to be?
> *On Children*
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> Kahlil Gibran <https://poets.org/poet/kahlil-gibran> - 1883-1931
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> And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of
> Children.
>      And he said:
>      Your children are not your children.
>      They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
>      They come through you but not from you,
>      And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
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>      You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
>      For they have their own thoughts.
>      You may house their bodies but not their souls,
>      For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot
> visit, not even in your dreams.
>      You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
>      For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
>      You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent
> forth.
>      The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends
> you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
>      Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
>      For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow
> that is stable.
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