Aleka and Zemphira by Moonlight
by Marc Chagall
Oh, not to be separated,
shut off from the starry dimensions
by so thin a wall.
What is within us
if not intensified sky
traversed with birds
and deep
with winds of homecoming?
Uncollected Poems
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Sky Within Us
Oh, not to be separated,
shut off from the starry dimensions
by so thin a wall.
What is within us
if not intensified sky
traversed with birds
and deep
with winds of homecoming?
Daily Thoughts 7/1/2011
Daily Thoughts 7/1/2011
I read some more of How The Hippies Saved Physics this morning. The author is writing about the idea of the observer effect in physics.
Library Journal sent me some Advanced Reading Copies of books; Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, A Sound Among the Trees A Novel by Susan Meissner, The Double Life of Alred Buber by David Schmahmann which has an interesting cover, The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh which is coming out in September, Child Wonder a novel by Roy Jacobsen told from a child's perspective, The Harvest of Grace by Cindy Smallwood which has an Amish element to it, and The Crossing A Novel by Serita Jakes. I think I am going to read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, it seems to have that bits versus atoms thinking which is starting to crop up among the digerati. Also, Child Wonder looks quite interesting.
Today, I worked on writing a number of flyers for events including a wills workshop and a workshop on mortgage law. As always, I checked the Twitter account and the displays and looked over the book sale.
I also checked out the book, HBR's 10 Must Reads On Strategy which is published by the Harvard Business Review.
How The Hippies Saved Physics is become more interesting as I read it. It is describing how the Fundamental Fysiks Group got funded and tied in with new age and eccentric groups and places like Esalen, Werner Erhard, and Henry Dakin. There is a touch of spoon bending with Uri Geller, psi, fringe science, and pseudoscience thrown in to make it even more fascinating. We get descriptions of quantum physics in relation to remote viewing, underground newspapers from the 1970s, and makeshift laboratories. The list of ecceentric physicists is interesting including Richard Feynman, Fred Alan Wolf, and Jack Sarfatti. At points it makes me laugh and smile because at the same time as it is very serious, it touches on the outlandish. There are points where icons of counterculture get woven into the story like Ram Dass and Ira Einhorn. It is a great read, especilly if you are interested in how fringe science becomes accepted or counterculture.
Web Bits
Crowdfunding: When the Publisher Doesn’t Cover the Creator’s Expenses
By Todd Allen
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/comics/article/47781-crowdfunding-when-the-publisher-doesn--t-cover-the-creator--s-expenses.html%20%20
Cozinha com um pouco de TOC
Sim, só mesmo quem tem TOC para se preocupar em ter os legumes picadinhos exatamente do mesmo tamanho. Mas, se você faz parte dessa turma, compre a sua tábua aqui e seja feliz!
Mas depois mostra pra gente o capricho da sua salada, vai!
Beijos
Beijos
UNCLE GEORGE + THE WILCOXES
The first few seconds are the meat of the matter. I plan to isolate the diving smoker from the rest of this family film of the late 50's-early 60's.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
I Dig for You, God, Like Treasure
Landscape at Auvers in the Rain
My hands are bloody from digging.
I lift them, hold them open in the wind,
so they can branch like a tree.
Reaching, these hands would pull you out of the sky
as if you had shattered there,
dashed yourself to pieces in some wild impatience.
What is this I feel falling now,
falling on this parched earth,
softly,
like a spring rain?
From The Book of Hours II, 34
Daily Thoughts 6/30/2011
Albert Einstein
Daily Thoughts 6/30/2011
Last night I read some of How the Hippies Saved Physics. The book is a popular treatise that focuses on the philosophy of science. Quantum physics has a lot of strange qualities which can be interpreted in very unusual ways. The author spends some time focusing on the Fundamental Fysiks Group at University of California Berkeley which was a group founded in the 1970s. Right now, I am reading about the early creators of quantum physics, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Albert Einsteen, and Erwin Schrodinger.
There is a book on mashups called Remixthebook by Mark Amerika coming out in September. I spent a little time reading the latest Publishers Weekly.
I also spent some time going over the ordering pattern this afternoon as well as checked through the gift books for books to add. There were a number of donated books like Don Quixote by Cervantes and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens which were assigned for the schools. This is the thing which is easiest to find among donated items.
I checked the displays in the morning and udpated the Twitter account. Our website came back up which was a relief. I also sent in the monthly statistics for programs.
Things went fairly smoothly today.
On the way home, I read some more of How The Hippies Saved Physics. The author is writing about John S. Bell who describes spooky action at a distance in physics. It is hard to describe or even understand Bell's Theorem.
Web Bits
Why It's Important for Communities to Have Bookstores
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/06/27/pm-why-its-important-for-communities-to-have-bookstores/
Inspiração retrô
Uma sala com inspiração retrô, mas muito moderna!
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Beijos
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Ashley Tisdale in casual pictures
Here Ashley Tisdale pictures when she was spotted out and about in Santa Monica, California on june 24,2011. Ashley Tisdale best known as The "High School Musical" actress. she was looking dressed casually as she headed to Lionsgate studios.
Other 2011 Ashley Tisdale pictures
2011 Ashley Tisdale best teen picture
2011 Ashley Tisdale in planet hollywood picture
2011 Ashley Tisdale picture on Spain
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Selena Gomez: Chicago Cutie
Here we have the famous teenager female celebrity, Selena Gomez pictures when she spotted on chicago, Illinois for some promotions event. The Justin Bieber girl looking very cute on the stage while wearing casual wear. Selena Gomez pictures cutie in chicago, june 26,2011.
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Selena Gomez Tatto pic
Selena Gomez Hairstyles
Slowness
Painting of Auguste Rodin in the Musée Rodin, Paris
artist unknown, shared here
As for me, my internal pace is slow. Mine is the intrinsic slowness of the tree that embraces its growth and its blooming. Yes, I have a bit of its admirable patience. I had to train myself in it from the moment I understood the secret slowness that engenders and distills any work of art. But if I know its temporal measure, I know nothing of its immobility. Oh, the joys of travel!
Letter to a friend
February 3, 1923
Daily Thoughts 6/29/2011
Daily Thoughts 6/29/2011
Todaywas another very steady day. I checked the displays and the booksale. I also tabulated another survey. I discussed the Central Library District allotment with thedirector this morning and looked over peoples ordering assignments.
I also spent some time helping people with job search in the computer lab for an hour. It is something we do on occassion.
A lot of the teenagers are coming in for their assignment lists and signing up for summer reading. Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, and Animal Farm by George Orwell are very popular. The short classics are what the teenagers want to read; The Pearl and The Red Pony by John Steinbeck, Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and The Prince by Machiavelli are quite short.
The book, How The Hippies Saved Physics, Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser came in for me to read.
I am looking forward to The Death Ray by Dan Clowes. It should be an interesting graphic novel. It is coming out in September. I also think Lidia's Italy in America published by Knopf should do quite well. I occassionally watch the cooking show on Channel 13 while I am folding laundry.
Daily Thoughts 6/28/2011
Daily Thoughts 6/28/2011
I read some more of Ark this morning. It is about the world being flooded by water and humanities last hope being an orion drive starship with an alcubierre warp drive. It is a story of survival and hope under harsh conditions. Orion drive ships use atom bombs to push a starship through space.
This morning I checked the displays and updated the Twitter account. I worked on a variety of flyers. We are having a computer class on Tuesday nights. Also, the Friends of the Library wanted more flyers for the Adult Summer Reading program.
I am preparing for the next two months programming.
On the way home, I finished Reading Ark by Stephen Baxter. It was interesting reading a hard science fiction book with a modern take on interstellar travel and the survival of the human race. I am donating the book to the library.
Lucy Pinder hot pics
What part of the body of Lucy Pinder when the first time you looking at Lucy Pinder hot pictures ? we're believe it that more than 80% man eyes will turn down and snap to the Lucy "twin ball". that so large size and looking comfortable place for sleep. wonderful size. how average weight for each ? perhaps five or seven pounds.
Rachel Bilson new pictures
Famous American actress, Rachel Bilson is known as drama series The O.C actress. Rachel also staring at "jumper" movie on 2008. she was born August 25, 1981 with her real name is Rachel Sarah Bilson. on the last post she knowing by paparazy when shopped at gelson's supermarket, last month. see here the Rachel Bilson pctures
Michelle Rodriguez
Beatiful American actress Michelle Rodriguez is an starring in Hollywood blockbusters movie. Michelle Rodriguez best known as The Fast and the Furious, avatar and Machete actress.
2011 Victoria Beckham: pictures and bio
Mrs.David Beckham named and known as Victoria Beckham, at the late 1990s Victoria Beckham is the former of Spice Girls, the girl music group from england.
After Married by David Beckham, now victoria turn her career as model, actress, fashion designer and businesswoman. she best known as Victoria Secret owner, the fashion designer industry. born on april 17,1974 with real name Victoria Caroline Adams. she was also rumoured about breast implant.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Gathering God
Man is at Sea, by Vincent van Gogh
The poets have scattered you.
A storm ripped through the stammering.
I want to gather you up again
in a vessel that makes you glad.
I wander in the thousand winds
that you are churning,
and bring back everything I find.
The blind man needed you as a cup.
The servant concealed you.
The beggar held you out as I passed.
You see, I am one who likes to look for things.
The Book of Hours I, 55
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