- Poem attributed to the initials W.L. (Epigraph, Chapter 6)
Arthur E. Shipley, Life: A Book for Elementary Students
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Withered Leaves
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Subtle and Evanescent
- Leonard Koren (1948 - )
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Thursday, March 13, 2025
World in Itself
to anything, even a blade of grass,
it becomes a mysterious, awesome,
indescribably magnificent
world in itself."
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Sunday, March 09, 2025
Deep Interlock
- Christopher Alexander (1936 - 2022)
Nature of Order
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
Sentient Soul
- Ludmila Uliţkaia (1943 - )
""Forms acquire meaning for us
only because we recognize in them
the expression of a sentient (fühlend) soul.
Spontaneously, we animate
(beseelen) every object.
- Heinrich Wölfflin (1864 - 1945)
Saturday, February 08, 2025
The Sensation of the Mystical
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Nature's Elegance #2
is that in fundamental physics a
beautiful or elegant theory is
more likely to be right
than a theory that
is inelegant."
- Murray Gell-Mann (1929 - 2019)
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Experimental Writing
- Northrop Frye (1912 - 1991)
Friday, January 10, 2025
Mystagogic Objects
- Jean Baudrillard (1929 - 2007)
Fragments
Thursday, January 09, 2025
Non-Mechanical Reality
- Sir James Jeans (1877 - 1946)
The Mysterious Universe
Tuesday, January 07, 2025
Limits of Perception
Friday, December 27, 2024
Entanglement
- Karen Barad (1956 - )
Meeting the Universe Halfway
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Transcendent Patterns
- Oliver Sacks (1933 - 2015)
Friday, December 20, 2024
Imperfect Concepts
and change there can be no Tao. In
reality there is nothing in the universe which
is completely perfect or completely still;
it is only in the minds of men
that such concepts exist."
- Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Nature's Elegance
more intricate, more
elegant than what
we are able to
imagine."
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
The Demon-Haunted World
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Making Visible the Invisible
invisible islands of energy,
where certain things can happen
and certain emotions and
dreams can be transported.
And as a photographer,
my task is to find those places.
it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what
you’re looking at, then
you’re never going to get
others to feel anything when
they look at your pictures.
making visible the invisible."
- Fay Godwin (1931 - 2005)
Monday, December 16, 2024
Worlds Born
world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting
that a new world is born."
Wednesday, December 04, 2024
Elegant Truths
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Sunday, December 01, 2024
Ancient Rhythms
- John O'Donohue (1956 - 2008)
Beauty: The Invisible Embrace