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 [...]

When you read this please ask yourself: What is one small thing I can do to bring about healing? Small things have always made huge differences. Remember the butterfly effect if you don’t believe me. – Have you noticed? Over the last year the earth has been shaking/shaken up quite a bit. Both the ‘man made’: [...]

"Shall we dance or something to celebrate?" Asked healing pixie, Seanan, in an email today…and in doing so kindly highlighted that: Today is the shortest day and longest night of the year – ie when one hemisphere of the earth, in this case, the Northern one, is the furthest away from the sun in its orbit. In [...]

"You have — within you — the fuel to thrive and to flourish, and to leave this world in better shape than you found it. Sometimes you tap into this fuel – other times you don’t. But the sad fact is that most people have no idea how to tap into this fuel or even [...]

This title sounds, to me, like that of a fairy tale. And perhaps it is. My life can be like that, Natalie, is, afterall, the anagram of "In a Tale". What is in a name… This narrative is also an example of how we can move in the direction of clarity even when not certain…and how clarity will (begin to) emerge [...]

"Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone." – Nobel prizewinner Czeslaw Milosz** Perhaps we in the animal kingdom can learn much from those in our plant neighbours… Let us take a lesson from a word commonly used for plants:  tropism [...]

1 x 8+1 = 9 12 x 8+2 = 98 123 x 8+3 = 987 1234 x 8+4 = 9876 12345 x 8+5 = 98765 123456 x 8+6 = 987654 1234567 x 8+7 = 9876543 12345678 x 8+8 = 98765432 123456789 x 8+9 = 987654321 Just one of the wonderful things about mathematics.

“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.” — Einstein I saw this quote today while working [...]

Too brilliant not to blog and share with the world!   Thanks Dave et al at Viva La Mobile

I believe everything is connected. And I love nothing more when I find that two seemingly divergent topics converge. This time it is my new found interest, knitting/weaving, joins mathematics. Huh? Well a mathematics researcher at Cornell, Dr. Daina Taimina, started crocheting to help her students visualise hyperbolic space… "Hyperbolic plane – pseudosphere" The idea has continued to engage and evole – most recently Dr. [...]