How can we gain sight of the invisible? Disclaimer: Below is version 1, the murky version of my thoughts. If you don’t like to get dirty, or you are expecting a clear paragraph please don’t. If you want to pick this apart, feel free, but don’t assume I have an argument/case fixed yet. I haven’t. That means [...]

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 [...]

"Muddy water, let stand – becomes clear" – Lao Tzu In an earlier post I discussed wading through the sea of confusion as a necessary step for clarity to emerge. Today I was passed onto a beautiful word "Clarts". "Clarts means mud. It is English not alice in wonderlandish, dialect from Northumberland, the most northerly county in England [...]

One of the things I love about NY is the public art – it is everywhere! Below are two of my favourite projects as the (solarly constructed calendar) year rounds up 1. The Bubble Project A counter-attack to our overly advertised and branded world, artist Ji Lee set about sticking 15,000 empty speech bubbles all around the city (and he [...]

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." – Edgar Allan Poe, poet and short-story writer 1809-1849 A dear friend, Martin, sent me this quote today and I couldn’t help but grin upon reading it. But as I went to put it online for you to experience the same [...]

You have a magic carpet That will whiz you through the air, To Spain or Maine or Africa If you just tell it where. So will you let it take you Where you’ve never been before Or will you buy some drapes to match And use it On your Floor? – Shel Silverstein

Alice laughed. "There’s no use trying," she said: "one CAN’T believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven’t had much practice" said the Queen.   – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1872, Chapter 5 Must be a week for pen names - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson = Lewis Carroll

"Everything in the universe is connected, of course. It’s a matter of using imagination to discover the links, and language to expand and enliven them." – Tom Robbins

One of the beauties of moving to a new place is seeing how the world looks from the other side…and learning new things. One of my latest discoveries, gifted me by the wonderful versitile and talented artist and friend Andrea, is Shel Silverstein.  American kids grew up on him. A perfect match for my Dr. Suess love-affair. An [...]

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself." – William Blake, 1799, [...]