Category Archives: Family

01-OCT

Conversation

Gamp Upright in Table
Heartbeat Cafe – Cambrian Park

Affirmation mode requires saying something positive.

e.g., I love “hearing the answer!“

Affirmation format makes a negative expression into a positive affirmation.

e.g., I love everything about “waiting for the answer”!

21-SEP

Do Not Disturb

Where’s that smile?

Where the Wild Things Are

Now that phenomenal existence is no more bolstered by impressions from within or without, we feel the need to lean on something that abides, that will never play us false – a reality, an absolute and everlasting truth: the perfect animal.

07-SEP

Tetrapods

Stay

Sunday Farmers Market – Campbell, California

Now that phenomenal existence is no more bolstered by impressions from within or without, we feel the need to lean on something that abides, that will never play us false – a reality, an absolute and everlasting truth: the perfect friend.

30-AUG

Takeoff

This Way to the Rocket Launch Live
Spinning the Engines up to Speed

Thousands of operations are performed before the rocket can leave the launch pad, and dozens of engineering cameras track these operations.

This is also a good preview of NASA’s super heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System (SLS), mankind’s new vehicle for the next trip to the Moon.

The first flight of Artemis and the full Orion spacecraft is scheduled to launch on SEP 05.

Update: The launch date was actually Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 6:47 AM (UTC).

03-AUG

Teammates

Los Gatos Rugby Reunion – K’s Backyard Party
eight ‘forwards’ and seven ‘backs‘

Resolve to be a ball of fire tomorrow, rather than, metaphorically, a damp clammy dishrag. It all depends on one’s incentive to do the right thing at the right time.

13-JUL

Hymenoptera Apocrita

On our fence, near the trash cans, every year.

As you eliminate your body on the web, you recuperate it in your physical location.

Sometimes you have a body, sometimes you don’t.

If you don’t have a body, you’re not there.

If you have a body, you are so there that your relationship with the world is what I call proprioceptive. It’s tactile. It’s not visual as it was during the Renaissance.

In the Renaissance, what was your identity? It was the outer limit of skin, a head that processed information, a dumb universe shown as a spectacle.

Identity became a point of view.

Today, identity is a point of being. We add the new possibilities of mixed identities, collective identities, just-in-time identities, fabricated identities.

There’s great flexibility, but the core business of self remains, just extended all over the planet by electronic extensions.

Derrick de Kerckhove – Wired October 1996

pro·pri·o·cep·tive – relating to stimuli that are produced and perceived within an organism, especially those connected with the position and movement of the body.

07-JUL

Environment

Architectural wisdom and design philosophy reflect how our indoor spaces serve as the backdrop for our lives, shaping our moods, behaviors, and overall well-being.

“Whoever you are: step out of doors tonight,
Out of the room that lets you feel secure.
Infinity is open to your sight.
Whoever you are.”

Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon: Poems