“There also is a fallacy in the assumption that all wants must be satisfied to minimize discontent. Discontent is not a function of the discrepancy between what men want and what they have, but between what they want and what they believe they are capable of attaining. If their means are few or threatened, [...]
Magic, the Science of Wonder at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. From the media preview.
More photos from the hmns magic exhibit on Facebook.
It’s the same story the crow told me
It’s the only one he know -
like the morning sun you come
and like the wind you go
Ain’t no time to hate,
barely time to wait
Wo-oah, what I want to know,
where does the time go?
- Grateful Dead, Uncle John’s Band
The pursuit of attention is now emerging as one of the electric organizing principles of American life. Not only are people pursuing attention in new ways, but there is evidence that we have begun to restructure our culture – including even our politics and economy – around the idea of attention as a glittering ultimate [...]
This is how the wind shifts:
Like the thoughts of an old human,
Who still thinks eagerly
And despairingly.
The wind shifts like this:
Like a human without illusions,
Who still feels irrational things within her.
The wind shifts like this:
Like humans approaching proudly,
Like humans approaching angrily.
This is how the wind shifts:
Like a human, heavy and heavy,
Who does not care.
- Wallace Steven (source)
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Scottsdale Arizona.. Probably the most inspiring place I visited in 2009.
This image is “Creative Commons Attribution”. You can download the large version here.
A few thoughts on the health care debate currently going on in the USA.
Public option – yes. Yes, we should make health care available to everyone. It is not a right, but a non-third-world country shouldn’t have people dying for lack of basic preventative medicine.
Tax the people who use it. Like any benefit, the people [...]
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