Flames Wow - What a shock of disbelief and sadness, to see images of the Notre Dame cathedral engulfed in flames. Now of course we know that any phenomenon that appears is destined—at some point—to disappear. But in all kinds of relative contexts, there’s genuine value in preserving/reproducing certain things—and (imo) the Notre Dame cathedral is one of these. In the Hindu triumvirate of …
Art & Spirit
As If
Wave-Particle In a fascinating article—Does The Universe Exist If We're Not Looking?—that's based upon an interview with (the late) physicist John Wheeler, I learned something new about the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment, which is that it originally was a thought experiment involving a pair of distant galaxies and an even-more-distant quasar. It was only later that a table-top version …
Making The Hidden Visible
Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible. ~ Paul Klee And, expanding a bit on his view of the role of an artist, Mr. Klee invokes the image of a humble regal tree: "From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at …
Sphere Of Influence
Sphere of Influence or Praise Song for the Warriors “Good hoop ... alerts you to what’s already there.” — John Edgar Wideman In a gym somewhere in Oakland, a girl makes a no-look pass, and the ball lands on the bow of a ship anchored off the banks of a city the Cayuga call “Big Town Lying There,” the ball coming to rest at the feet of Henry Hudson, who is wearing Air Jordans …
Only Your Name
In this excerpt from Rabindranath Tagore's The Lover of God, Radha speaks to her friend and confidant about her longing for Krishna: her "Dark Lord Syama." The Yamuna is a tributary of India's Ganges river. It's in the forest along the banks of the Yamuna that Krishna dances and plays with the gopis: the cowherds enchanted by his divine music. In this poem, the "luminous Yamuna" can be …
Unbroken
Like The Prow Of A Boat "Be, therefore, like the prow of a boat: It cleaves the water, yet it leaves in its wake water unbroken." Is this not one of the best-ever grasshopper teaching moments!? Let's explore this image in a bit more depth--but first, here it is in all its glorious original context ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDZOa1rEp0 Leaving No Trace This image--of the …