The Be Good Tanyas - The Littlest Birds

Lighter

Noticed a lighter mood in my brother this weekend, nice to see those smiles.

What Was Said to the Rose

Eugene, Arto and of course, Coleman Barks

All Things Are Possible

" with God All Things Are Possible" it was written on the truck idling opposite me tonight at the traffic light on the green.

William McDonough: The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle

Lots of Rain

Big storm blew through this afternoon. The sky is just beginning to clear.

Alice and Andy

Within Quest, competing against other "questors ? questies ? " They all strive for one highly coveted Math Medal awarded to the best in Quest. Congratulations, Andy - a rare honor.

Willowwood Hike

Beautiful hike in and around Willowwood today...like walking through paradise.

Time Flys

i recently
heard
the word prom
used as a verb,
"promming. "

saturday night
ryan and erica
attended
the junior
prom. it seems
like yesterday
they were
in fifth grade.

Jeff Han on TED Talks

interesting new technology.

Gratitude

Grateful for many little things today.

Walking

I am trying to get out of the office everyday to walk. My very old ipod is keeping me company and the music sounds so good.

Kentucky Derby

Whitney and Alden enjoyed the festivities.

My Favorite Bench

At the end of the trail, a garden and my favorite bench.

Walk in the Woods

Long late afternoon walk through the woods behind the cross estate today. took lots of pictures.

It Might As Well Be Spring

Took this photo in the big field yesterday afternoon.

From an Essay on Social Artistry

"....the membrane between cultures, between worlds, between old and new ways of being is breaking down. In the past, migrations and diffusions allowed for gradual changes and exchanges between cultures and identities. Now nothing is gradual; in certain regions of the world we are watching a speeded up movie of strange multicultural mitosis and their stranger spawn. Cultures thousands of miles apart now in the force of the meeting, a new genesis is occurring, occasionally a melding of genes, but more often, a mingling of previously divided worlds which, thrown together, undergo a sea change into something rich and strange.

What results is not merely a hyphenated amalgam, Afro-Asian rock music or Chicano-cyberpunk art, but rather hybrid sounds for hybrid selves, a malleable, syncretic fusion that is generating its own cultural matrix. For human beings, the complexity of this not-yet-definable culture is providing sufficient stimulus to call forth latencies in the human brain-mind system that were never needed before, like bacteria learning to breathe rather than die when the culture of oxygen came in or, closer to home, the ways in which children absorb the mysteries of computer wizardry with ease while their parents struggle to master the basics.

This breakdown of the membrane I am describing is not merely cultural fusion; it is the joining together of geographies of the mind and body that had never touched before, weaving synapses and sensibilities to create people who are fused into the world-mind with its unlimited treasures, its empowering capacities. The social artist is able to relate to this quickening charge of cultural mitosis and stays abreast of the ways in which it is occurring from food, to music, to literature and theater--the very lineaments of culture--consciousness is remaking itself. "

Blissing Out

amazing weather these past few days, also enjoyed finding some lesser known illustrations by william morris.

Beep Beep mm Beep Beep yeah

ryan passed his road test today.

Pink Petals

circling the green today owen said, "it's raining flowers"...a few petals actually sailed in the window while we were stopped at the traffic light. tomorrow sam stars in the 5th grade play reciting jfk's "ask not" speech and rick transitions from epidural to morphine at mount auburn where the tulips and irises act out.