Life Is an Experiment
We’re all testing hypotheses, learning from outcomes, and iterating as we go.
Every choice is a variable, every experience a data point.
Rocket Launch Live <- for the latest launches to date
Click on the image to enlarge, look closely at the bottom; just left of center is newly named Monet’s Fault.
Imagine the horror with which darkness, rain, and wind, fill persons who have lost their way in the night; and who, consequently, have not the pleasant prospect of warm fires, dry cloaths, and other refreshments, to support their minds in struggling with the inclemencies of the weather.
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Roscosmos Soyuz-2 rocket launch of the Progress MS-19 mission yesterday (2/15/2022) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is worth watching if only to hear the roar of fire lifting 334 tons off the earth.
Skip ahead in the video to 58 minutes to see the moment they “light the candle“.
rocketlaunch.live/launch/progress-ms-19
Reflect on the spirit embodied by monks at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert: Their daily work period starts at 9:40 AM and is for only 3 hours!
Asked of one monk what he does when the bell rings at 12:40 PM but he feels that his work is undone, he replied, “You get over it.“
So many people
Boston – More Than A Feeling – YouTube
have come & gone
Their faces fade
as the years go by
Yet I still recall
as I wander on
As clear as the sun
in the summer sky
In good time as the ardor of youth declines and years increase; as reflection lends her solemn pauses; then a love of ease & virtue supplants the love for maidens. –Moby Dick by Heman Melville
Piloting a paraglider around the turn of the millennium. (That’s M with outstretched arms.)
Flying machines epitomize the realization of a 3-D experience in the wind.
Now my wing is in the garage, ready for the museum. It’s still flight worthy, and it could still break my neck.
Do you recognize this pretty city? Hint: It’s an almost 12 hour drive east-southeast from Cupertino.
Associated with the Sun; strength in adversity, and the triumph of life over destruction.
