Cultural and Intellectual History Tweets—Learning to Teach (at a new level)

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On this date on Round and Square  

24 April 2013—China's Lunar Calendar 2013 04-24
24 April 2012—Primary Sources: Good Morning Mother
24 April 2011)—La Pensée Cyclique: Primitive Classification

[a] Format RF

This new Round and Square series gets right to the point...and then starts circuiting around it. We begin with a 140 character tweet about cultural-intellectual history. This is followed by an English-style haiku (with a few liberties taken here and there—hey...English ain't Japanese). We end with a nice recipe. Simple, and to-the-point (except that it really is neither of these...and that is the whole point). Oh, and I still believe in complete sentences and fully-formed wrdz (they can't always be exactly "complete" on Twitter, but, as I like to say, "you can see 'complete' from there." Sorry, but that's the way I roll. 

If the tweet is "informational" (as today), it is "true." The recipe is "real." The haiku is just, well, odd.

I would tell you more...if I had more than 140 characters with which to work (+ spld thngs fny).

[b] Levels RF

Tweet
I'm back from two days of "Great Courses" work for my upcoming lecture series on Asian mythology. This brings teaching to a new level—wow...

Haiku
Great production team
Lecture, taping, pro-mo-tion
Teaching Company

Recipe
After a long day of work at the teleprompter, nothing hits the spot like Thai noodle lemongrass soup. Then it's back to the hotel for more work on tomorrow's lectures (and maybe a cold beer).

Thai Noodle Lemongrass Soup

[c] Runnin' RF