the model for early childhood education i've gravitated towards the most is that of rudolph steiner - this is the basis for waldorf education. it's obvious that children don't have an adult worldview. but, in what ways do they not have this, and how does it relate to santa? https://hell.twtr.plus/media/993d62b49f0e5ba3a57c59a541c882145a1517e1daf66c1db6256ad651f7c93b.file

the question of: "is 'doing santa' with your kids lying to them?" is very interesting to me. it's an intersection of many of my interests: ethics, philosophy, spirituality, psychology, and pedagogy. usually i see these conversations assume the child has an adult worldview. ... https://hell.twtr.plus/media/36637526d841954f55e6dc8ec40c9ff6040ec229bc0f46bfe887c17673f2b044.file

a halo is a sphere of luminous awareness source: it is known / made it up

behold my vaguely germanic folk element https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e750b7d5bb74db6a0897f63a70a15837e1bcd5702013056330f93a0ff285a7f5.file

apparently germany has a unique book section amazon doesnt have in america called “rhyme, verse, and wordplay” and im charted there. i dont think there is a unique amazon for austria, so i will assume rudolph steiner is somehow responsible for this: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/bad27cdea7fcd8fb84888ed8ca74ded87eb3933fd2403d820dd3389e9a164a46.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ff9cfc8496591cde4f6d0a52760a106eeeb920961d95566ac3d3a38a71e930a6.file

they got me up against the biggest name in the game https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ff9cfc8496591cde4f6d0a52760a106eeeb920961d95566ac3d3a38a71e930a6.file

this year was really a grab bag. due to working on the book (pinned tweet check it out) i couldn't really pull off and dig into a comic series like i normally would. ultimately these pushed me along quite a bit. in a way this "other-me" became a new extension of myself. cool. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/347cf0a3e643dbb74c0a464f233a92e1ff79d92e4ad115d2d9c429c7d5ee509c.file

eventually, i decided the newspaper upgraded from some more primitive printing technique to something that would allow for color. i would sit down in the dark and imagine people speaking english, slavic, yiddish, norwegian, german, and reading these, in their little enclaves. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c9532c4a4ca69259916d6961975118b04308a6a4dcaa9941884ccf0c64037609.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4531bbcc3492680ff0d01fe8022872d3e6a7de6c95b8378525ae4167201ddd48.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/afd0fea7131ddd739c245cf7a58e8a13635048c006b27bb4c4fac6b2e0d156df.file

although i never told anyone this, it really took off internally. i really imagined that i was this person. i even learned some basic terms and phrases in a few languages that i imagined they spoke here. i started to think about concepts that would communicate across these lines https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9133b78154bcf9475443aef42a981031d38a0607f61ea0c303f8e01880ec4075.file

he works as an illustrator for a set of newspapers in this city. because of the language situation there, he's paid extra for cartoons without words, because they can be more easily distributed into various publications with no linguistic or translation logistics. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/29594d8ac17ca15e246562f8c53bcefbd8ad18229720d28bfcaae55eb6ef1407.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8c40105760880e3b9862c945e7f207d1acfb9b9bd4ae61326bdaf6ccae2ba73f.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a098f5c42cf60b87afa2da394b0acd46e88fa2b4d2c1cb70eb1d5e2e74e05e13.file