Prof. John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab writes a profound INFP explaination for "Necessary Procrastination" on March 29, 2006. Of course I am just guessing about the INFP part. I have a link to his blog at the right, Simplicity.
He states: "The more you overcommit, the more that procrastination becomes intolerably expensive to engage..yet it is when procrastination becomes exceedingly costly to do, it is then that extreme (underlined) creativity emerges. "Necessary procrastination" is a prime factor in the creative process."
All of this time I had great guilt when I spend time thinking instead of doing. Prof. Maeda is absolutely correct in the profundity of those radical new thoughts coming at you from out of the blue.
The work ethic I grew up with, our USA educational style of teaching and learning, and living with an engineer, Libra born even, can make a person such as myself feel very out of sync with the world. Marcus Borg had something to to say about the lonliness aspect of it also.
I don't know how in the world I can live in a marriage, in a family, or in our society when it is extremely difficult to figure out the small bug that I am. Understanding the way others see the big picture nearly does me in.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
The Diamond Ring
That Eclipse was beautiful and unusual. To see the ring of pearls around it twice and the diamond ring event twice was amazing. The temperatures went down a little over 20 degrees through the totality. The corona was great to see.
It was a joy to hear the crowd, filled with the children of the Turkish city, cheer in totality. They were filming this in a 2000 year old Roman ampitheater. It was even unforgettable streaming live on the Internet.
It was a joy to hear the crowd, filled with the children of the Turkish city, cheer in totality. They were filming this in a 2000 year old Roman ampitheater. It was even unforgettable streaming live on the Internet.
Turkey Eclipse
This is a awful/wonderful time in history. It is amazing what is possible. As you know I am a middle of the night AM radio listener on occasion. It was good to be wakeful tonight. I was directed to a site to watch a webcam live from Turkey waiting for the total eclipse. I suppose it will be rerun and you can see it all later also.
Actually I was awakened by David Icke's strange ranting on the Illuminati. Wikipedia doesn't paint a pretty picture of him. It was, however, very good to be pointed to the site in Turkey. Maybe I will quit eating Splenda if it scrambles my brain waves.
The last total eclips was in 2003. The announcers are explaining the phenomena in front of some ancient hunks of ornate cement from old buildings. Science guys par-excellance with a variety of telescopes, an H Alpha that shows the sun spots and the moon's shadow. The Corona camera projects a very beautiful image. It is getting very dark there. Coronal mass ejections live are dynamic in time lapse. It disturbes our earth in communications and now NASA is showing the aurora resulting from it.
To see the Earth's image from space with the beginning of the slice of black caused by the eclipse slicing Africa, going through Turkey, and ending in Russia somewhere is almost more than I can believe. Twenty-five percent of the sun is now covered. A huge crowd is watching this from a collesium. I am such a bumpkin that listening and watching this even live is almost more than my little brain can take in.
The Ghana guys have seen totality. And we will see it in Turkey in 20 minutes.
I am thankful that He Who Must Be Obeyed got the best computer he could afford a few years ago! And I am thankful to be alive today! Holy-Moly!
Actually I was awakened by David Icke's strange ranting on the Illuminati. Wikipedia doesn't paint a pretty picture of him. It was, however, very good to be pointed to the site in Turkey. Maybe I will quit eating Splenda if it scrambles my brain waves.
The last total eclips was in 2003. The announcers are explaining the phenomena in front of some ancient hunks of ornate cement from old buildings. Science guys par-excellance with a variety of telescopes, an H Alpha that shows the sun spots and the moon's shadow. The Corona camera projects a very beautiful image. It is getting very dark there. Coronal mass ejections live are dynamic in time lapse. It disturbes our earth in communications and now NASA is showing the aurora resulting from it.
To see the Earth's image from space with the beginning of the slice of black caused by the eclipse slicing Africa, going through Turkey, and ending in Russia somewhere is almost more than I can believe. Twenty-five percent of the sun is now covered. A huge crowd is watching this from a collesium. I am such a bumpkin that listening and watching this even live is almost more than my little brain can take in.
The Ghana guys have seen totality. And we will see it in Turkey in 20 minutes.
I am thankful that He Who Must Be Obeyed got the best computer he could afford a few years ago! And I am thankful to be alive today! Holy-Moly!
Monday, March 27, 2006
Forever is a Long, Long Time
It does seem like forever since I have visited and written. For almost a year I have been living in the past. That is what writing history gets you. Life a hundred years ago wasn't exactly 'the good old days' some people talk about. I am certainly ready to put all of that behind me and get on with it.
The past weeks I have only caught little bits and pieces of news, short minutes of curious and intriguing BOOKTV authors talking about the God Meme and dangerous professors, seen the throngs of people resisting the Senate Hearings on immigration but not the hearing itself. Life as it is for me at the moment, I never get all of anything. A true half-wit. I felt the same way when I was in college with six kids in the house.
The book "Cave Hills Finns: They Had Sisu!" is done. After a flurry of mailings it has gone into a second printing. Second printings are good. I should have had a recall on the first one. It had so many errors, typos, and slip-slides that I am completely humiliated by it. The second one will be much cleaner. Not, perfect. No.
He Who Must BE Obeyed was gone eleven days recently doing what he calls "God's Work." I was home feeling giddily independent. Growing up an only child, I love to be alone. It was a win/win for everyone concerned and I can look forward to more of the same every three weeks. It is pure bliss.
The past weeks I have only caught little bits and pieces of news, short minutes of curious and intriguing BOOKTV authors talking about the God Meme and dangerous professors, seen the throngs of people resisting the Senate Hearings on immigration but not the hearing itself. Life as it is for me at the moment, I never get all of anything. A true half-wit. I felt the same way when I was in college with six kids in the house.
The book "Cave Hills Finns: They Had Sisu!" is done. After a flurry of mailings it has gone into a second printing. Second printings are good. I should have had a recall on the first one. It had so many errors, typos, and slip-slides that I am completely humiliated by it. The second one will be much cleaner. Not, perfect. No.
He Who Must BE Obeyed was gone eleven days recently doing what he calls "God's Work." I was home feeling giddily independent. Growing up an only child, I love to be alone. It was a win/win for everyone concerned and I can look forward to more of the same every three weeks. It is pure bliss.
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