“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” (Sign that hung in Albert Einstein’s office in Princeton, NJ) For most of us, summer is over. People are returning from vacations all over the place. Teachers are back in schools and if the students aren’t, they will be soon. [...]
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy One of the greatest discoveries a man (or a woman, come [...]
“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. Buckminster Fuller It is hot and steamy here in North Carolina as only July in the sultry south can [...]
In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows. Woody Allen Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken. MFK Fisher So here is a question. How many compost bins do you think there are in Beverly Hills? Anyway, this [...]
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance –It is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin US historian (1914 – ) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. Henry David Thoreau I am home. In the evening, a cacophony of katydids and cicadas surround me in the warm night air. The sidewalks are hot [...]
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams Well, I haven’t been flying, but I have hurling myself off of a pier every afternoon around 5 or so. The lake that I land in requires swimming, not flying, or at least floating around on a raft or some such….For [...]
You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it Rumi Hanley Dennings, the founder of Safe Passage, saw in her heart what needed to be done and did it. The very same week Hanley [...]
What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. This is the most obvious benefit of travel. At that [...]
Me and my crew installing bales of PETE plastic bottles in front of the Durham Arts Council in 1992 for my show entitled “Natural Selection.” Americans now drink more bottled water than milk or beer — in fact, the average American is now drinking around 30 gallons, or 115 liters, of bottled water each year, [...]
“I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.” The Dali Lama “The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.” Douglas Adams in “the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy” These days, when I see a friend I haven’t seen is a while, someone who knows [...]