I am planning to take part in “A crash Course on Creativity” running from next week. I am excited and apprehensive as this is new to me, and it is; busy, busy, busy at work. I will post when I can.. Will be back.
http://venturelab.stanford.edu/creativity
I have the book.
My daughter is in the children’s choir in the local production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”. My wife and I have been taking her to practices for months. Yesterday we attended a performance with my parents. Well…
I was just amazed. The cast, music – everything; way brilliant. Of course, I have a bias, my daughter was the best.
The biggest surprise for me – even though we have been around practices from the beginning – I was stunned/delighted when my daughter was dancing and singing right in the middle of the front of the chorus line. I just did not know she would be “that” up front and central. Simply magic. A wonderful show. Community, amateur performance art at its best. Such an opportunity for the performers and crew. Thanks to everyone involved.
I’m so excited, I’m going again on Closing Night.
I have two quotes seeking calm and thoughtful response. Look after yourselves and each other.
Two quotes on yesterday’s horror in Boston. The first from from Robert Kennedy via “the cinnamon peeler’s wife, the second from Ken Perrott at “Science blogs”. I don’t know what to think, violence like this I just don’t understand.
Categories: “Community” because it is in communities that we forestall and recover from violence. “Uncategorized” because I just don’t understand acts like this.
— Robert F. Kennedy, Remarks to the Cleveland City Club, April 5, 1968
Ken Perrott from: http://sciblogs.co.nz/open-parachute/2013/04/16/a-sombre-night-in-boston/
“Empathise with victims of terror everywhere
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This blog is a favorite of mine; this quote from the “Dead Poet’s Society” sings to me.
Check out the “Cinnamon peeler’s wife’s” blog. The author has just self published her first poetry book. Simply wonderful.
This morning good friend of mine reminded me that my wedding anniversary is in a fortnight and when I sat down to write this morning, this link was the one I opened…
Carl Sagan’s wife on their relationship. The quote is “In a very real sense, the love shared between Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan is out of this world. In the newest episode of the Carl Sagan Tribute Series, Ann recalls how she and Carl fell in love. But this is no ordinary Valentine’s day love story. The Voyager spacecraft gave this love a transcendent character. Inscribed on the Voyager golden records, the love shared by Carl and Ann will persist for as long as these golden records remain intact.”
I emphasize the importance of community and beauty in this blog. Today I acknowledge the importance of relationships in my life.
Milky Way Musings, In a very real sense, the love shared between Ann….
The photo is from NASA: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec1.html
Honestly, I would not function without coffee; alkaloids are wonderful. A little evidence based information explaining why I will keep drinking coffee.
The photograph is my coffee mug sitting on my daily pages and note-book. Two other items I prefer to live with. (Daily pages, look at, http://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/)
The Science Behind Coffee and Why it's Actually Good for Your Health.
Artists Open Studios Whanganui | Whanganui, New Zealand.
Yesterday I traveled to Whanganui and my sister and I spent two hours visiting artist’s studios and meeting the artists. It was wonderful both seeing the artists and their sketch books, discussing process and passion, and the works. I encourage you to visit next weekend if you are close to Whanganui. Keep an eye open for similar events where you live if you don’t.
My biggest surprise was the artist who has been as inspired by “Curiosity” the Mars lander. Her artistic response is a series of tapestries inspired by Mars. Simply wonderful.
And, of course, the open studios are exactly the kind of community based, community building, resilience building event that I love.
Here in Palmerston North we are fortunate because successive councils, guided by the community and individuals have provided for cyclists. At least we have wide roads with clear road markings. This is not perfect and is the subject of steady debate; however, cyclists are provided for. I am grateful. Thank you.
This is important. Yesterday my ten year old daughter, my wife and I cycled into town and to a music lesson. Taking a child on the road is a real act of faith. The cycle-ways help.
The photograph is of the road markings outside my work.
"I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough." ~Richard Feynman
What is it that we think we know? And why do we ask? And why is it important that we have an answer? Humans have an inherent, it seems, ability to question their purpose of being.
This is absolutely true. Scientists look like themselves. They are a diverse and curious group. Having said that scientists are driven by curiosity and passion and evidence and beauty. That is a conclusion I have made from scientists I have met; or read about. And I am a curious and passionate person too.
The two videos make the point the stereotypical scientist is a myth; the links to “Big Bang Theory” are wonderful.
The Myth of the Scientist | Molecular Matters.
