Isn’t it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
- Kelvin Throop III
Incidently don’t you just love how with all our knowledge and developments animals, such as cows*, and some of those with arthritis seem to predict rain better than the forecasters can? 
While musing I am suddenly remembering a story [...]

"…a flower cannot be made, but only generated from the seed"
- Christopher Alexander in "The Timeless Way of Building"

‘A tiny seed awakens the infinite power of life hidden within the earth…’ 
Lately I get concerned that we don’t realise how everything we do and get, it is a choice. Not that there are not other things bigger/smaller [...]

"For now we see through a glass, darkly,
but then face to face: now I know in part;
but then shall I know even as also I am known."
Corinthians 13*
 
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*Please note: For anyone feeling uneasy about the religious nature of this posting I would like to recommend reading it as a poem. This is not [...]

"Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting." - Hundertwasser

I need to keep munching on this concept - while I don’t [...]

"It’s kind of fun to do the impossible"
- Walt Disney 

"But what minutes!  Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."  - Benjamin Disraeli
"How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on".  - Zall’s Second Law
My question today, and you may find it nice to ask yourself this question to, is:  "Did I use [...]

"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.
What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher.
What we can’t understand we call nonsense.
What we can’t read we call gibberish.
- Chuck Palahniuk 
Image: Salt Mines - Bolivia

"A good word is like tree whose root is firmly fixed in the sky"- the Koran
"If all seeds that were to fall would grow, then no-one could follow the path under the trees" - the Akan
What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk to the sky? - Pablo Neruda
Sometimes you [...]

What is a new metaphor that makes sense to the world that is, not the world as if it is?
Science: Descartes stated "I have described the earth, and all the visible world, as if it were a machine" he heralded the Age of Reason and gave birth to modern scientific method*
Art: "Alberti remarked that a [...]

"Without contraries there is no progression."
- William Blake,  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

"I am picturing waves -
their rhythmic motion,
their patterns of slush and light and white,
their depth, their sounds, their movement…
what better a reminder of simultaneous constancy and motion,
than breaking waves
spiralling towards a shell lined shore?"
- Natalie Shell
 
     
"The imagination is not a State:

it is the Human [...]