What is "English"?. A brief history of a nebulous subject --
The power of softness: intimations of deepened humanity from stories of classroom life --
Understand the power of softness through the deep prehistory of English --
The way life teaches: revisiting the three dimensions of aesthetic, transactional responsiveness. The evocative dimension: story time and human life --
The connective dimension: finding love by sharing insight with implied authors --
The reflective dimension: response and responsibility, love and loving wisdom --
Reading beyond the book: moving from a transactional worldview to a transactional world. Aesthetic education: the artistry of transactional life in classrooms --
Aesthetic democracy: government of people by people for the shared life of people, write small and writ large --
Aesthetic humanity: the history, and possible future of wisdom.
