Tag Archives: cloud

26-Kick

Motion

Overlooking Vandenberg Space Force Base

Embrace movement outdoors to boost vitality.

Enthusiasm, the noun, comes from the Greek word enthousiasmos, meaning “possessed by a god, inspired.”

14-Folk

Intention

Walhalla by Max Bruckner (1836-1918)

Half of those who die in combat enter Valhalla, while the other half are chosen to reside in Fólkvangr.

Folkvangr by Frostwalkers

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.

Aristotle

07-Stub

Writers Block

Axiomatic Erosion is the reality of how all formal systems of knowledge, measurement, and understanding inevitably break down into a paradox at sufficient levels of observation.

This means that no formal systems may ever be absolutely defined.

They will always run into an “infinite wall”, or some form of incomplete expression.

breezetheory.com

14-Loft

Did we awake from the stupor that can consume our lives — lost amidst bits & bytes, screens & feeds — and find ourselves, as G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “in a street full of splendid strangers?”

Did we allow the years to teach us their subtle lessons?

The idea is not that we will win in our own lifetimes and that’s the measure of us, but that we will die trying.”

Barbara Ehrenreich

Stopping puts some space in your long haul. Rest is a way of being. Pacing is recalibrated care. ~Pato Hebert

  • STOP
    • REST
      • PACE

27-Shor

Pathway

Adrian du Buisson for Quanta Magazine – March 12, 2019

Cells in embryos make their way across a steep “developmental landscape” to their eventual fate.

Embryonic cells continuously monitor their changing surroundings and make small corrective adjustments, optimizing as development proceeds, locking in on their planned identity relatively late.

Processing positional information makes genes variously switch on and off throughout the embryo, giving cells distinct identities based on their location. (Some cells unfortunately take the wrong paths and are unable to get back on track.)

All the information is there in the landscape and processing that information effectively may be the phenomenon that makes a bunch of loosely stuck-together atoms behave like the thing we call life.


Had I been like a man living in a wood from which he knows there is no exit, I could have lived; but I was like one lost in a wood who, horrified at having lost his way, rushes about wishing to find the road.”

-Leo Tolstoy

16-Trug

Turbulence

Success is measured by the opposition you encounter, and the courage with which you maintain the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Marden

Eschew sidewalks and low hanging tree branches; walk in the middle of the street, and listen for the notes of traffic.

19-Isle

Radiance

High above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel’s face; and this bright face shed a distinct spot of radiance upon the ship’s tossed deck.

“Ah, noble ship,” the angel seemed to say, “beat on, beat on, thou noble ship, and bear a hardy helm; for lo! the sun is breaking through; the clouds are rolling off – serenest azure is at hand.”

Moby Dick by Herman Melville