Musings
A few little things:
Time.
Time is relative, yet how do you make sure it passes slowly? In a mortal lifespan, you can extend your life by making time slow down. If you can make time stop, relative to your own time, you can living forever.
So you would think that if you do whatever you do faster, time itself (for everyone else) relative to your action has slowed down. Yet, it won't feel like that because your heart rate increases as you speed up your action and you measure time often on how fast you move independent of time as perceived by everyone else (as measured by clock and calendar).
What you want is for both you and the clock-calendar to perceive time as slower.
One might want to work at doing things incrementally faster by becoming more efficient, eliminate steps. If you can do that without giving up the time saved you then have given yourself more time to do something else. And isn't that what you want--to have more time to do what you want?
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Lichen.
I found a branch of lichen in Delbert's Garden to-day. Must have been blown in off some tree branch in the neighborhood. I like the light green/bluish tinge and the other-worldly construct of its leaves, if that is the word for it. If it were so possible to accumulate a lot of lichen it might serve to be an attractive mulch. Whether it absorbs water well is a question. To be good mulch it should absorb water and then release it slowly. As I told Marisa to-day: "I like lichen."
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Plastic containers.
Marisa likes to get chicken that comes in these thick black and clear plastic containers. When the chicken is gone we have to throw away the containers. Likewise we get strawberries in plastic shell containers and have to toss those in the garbage. Both of these could some in some sort of compostable container. These plastic items are not designed for recycling. How do we get the food industry to stop using plastic? I don't know a non-draconian approach.
The city of Portland banned plastic bags.
It just banned plastic straws.
Can we ban plastic drink lids, plastic disposable cups, and these plastic shells? How can we push food marketers to buy food in non-plastic containers?
Milk cartons: why the stupid little plastic pouring spout? For decades we could deal with milk in paper cartons which you could just open and pour: no plastic cap or stopper. The first time I encountered one of these I refused to acknowledge it and opened the carton as I always did. I reluctantly started using this alternative pour location, but I still do not accept it.
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Our Mr. Sun, Hemo the Magnificent--these are two of my favorite television specials from the 1950s and repeated for classrooms via 16mm film. Thanks to the Bell System we learned about how blood works and how the Sun can be used to replace carbon fuel.
The other night Marisa talked about how she needed to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. So I came up with another episode with Dr. Research and Richard Carlson/Eddie Albert as his assistant: All Things Bladder. It would feature a cartoon character Bladder with its companion, Bowel! So Bladder would be Number One, but Bowell its Number Two. Somehow, though, digestion was not covered in the Bell Science series.
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I had a dream several nights ago where I woke up with a new phrase (at least I think it is new): "If you aren't doin', you're nothin'". It is sort of a negative way of stating the Nike slogan, "Do it!" or "To be is to do." The first is just encouragement, but the second is to suggest that doing things is what expresses our existence. So, the opposite way to look at it is that if you don't do anything you don't exist. This is not true, of course: there are plenty of people who don't do anything but live. Yet, when you don't do anything besides sleeping, eating and observing, soon others stop caring about you, thinking about you...and then you become invisible. I don't want to become that. It doesn't mean that others will still ignore you, but there will be someone, some day, who will notice.
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The bulb plants are definitely coming out and the pink flowering currant and Oregon grape are budding. I took a few pictures of Delbert's Garden to show this. What I find most fascinating is that these bulb plant leaves are able to push through the ground and even through the center of decomposing leaves yet do so very slowly. Is it the fact that they work against gravity so slowly that allows them to do this? I am always amazed to see these leaves puncture a tree ;eaf amd end up carrying the leaf off the ground as the plants grow.
Time.
Time is relative, yet how do you make sure it passes slowly? In a mortal lifespan, you can extend your life by making time slow down. If you can make time stop, relative to your own time, you can living forever.
So you would think that if you do whatever you do faster, time itself (for everyone else) relative to your action has slowed down. Yet, it won't feel like that because your heart rate increases as you speed up your action and you measure time often on how fast you move independent of time as perceived by everyone else (as measured by clock and calendar).
What you want is for both you and the clock-calendar to perceive time as slower.
One might want to work at doing things incrementally faster by becoming more efficient, eliminate steps. If you can do that without giving up the time saved you then have given yourself more time to do something else. And isn't that what you want--to have more time to do what you want?
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Lichen.
I found a branch of lichen in Delbert's Garden to-day. Must have been blown in off some tree branch in the neighborhood. I like the light green/bluish tinge and the other-worldly construct of its leaves, if that is the word for it. If it were so possible to accumulate a lot of lichen it might serve to be an attractive mulch. Whether it absorbs water well is a question. To be good mulch it should absorb water and then release it slowly. As I told Marisa to-day: "I like lichen."
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Plastic containers.
Marisa likes to get chicken that comes in these thick black and clear plastic containers. When the chicken is gone we have to throw away the containers. Likewise we get strawberries in plastic shell containers and have to toss those in the garbage. Both of these could some in some sort of compostable container. These plastic items are not designed for recycling. How do we get the food industry to stop using plastic? I don't know a non-draconian approach.
The city of Portland banned plastic bags.
It just banned plastic straws.
Can we ban plastic drink lids, plastic disposable cups, and these plastic shells? How can we push food marketers to buy food in non-plastic containers?
Milk cartons: why the stupid little plastic pouring spout? For decades we could deal with milk in paper cartons which you could just open and pour: no plastic cap or stopper. The first time I encountered one of these I refused to acknowledge it and opened the carton as I always did. I reluctantly started using this alternative pour location, but I still do not accept it.
--------------------
Our Mr. Sun, Hemo the Magnificent--these are two of my favorite television specials from the 1950s and repeated for classrooms via 16mm film. Thanks to the Bell System we learned about how blood works and how the Sun can be used to replace carbon fuel.
The other night Marisa talked about how she needed to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. So I came up with another episode with Dr. Research and Richard Carlson/Eddie Albert as his assistant: All Things Bladder. It would feature a cartoon character Bladder with its companion, Bowel! So Bladder would be Number One, but Bowell its Number Two. Somehow, though, digestion was not covered in the Bell Science series.
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I had a dream several nights ago where I woke up with a new phrase (at least I think it is new): "If you aren't doin', you're nothin'". It is sort of a negative way of stating the Nike slogan, "Do it!" or "To be is to do." The first is just encouragement, but the second is to suggest that doing things is what expresses our existence. So, the opposite way to look at it is that if you don't do anything you don't exist. This is not true, of course: there are plenty of people who don't do anything but live. Yet, when you don't do anything besides sleeping, eating and observing, soon others stop caring about you, thinking about you...and then you become invisible. I don't want to become that. It doesn't mean that others will still ignore you, but there will be someone, some day, who will notice.
--------------------
The bulb plants are definitely coming out and the pink flowering currant and Oregon grape are budding. I took a few pictures of Delbert's Garden to show this. What I find most fascinating is that these bulb plant leaves are able to push through the ground and even through the center of decomposing leaves yet do so very slowly. Is it the fact that they work against gravity so slowly that allows them to do this? I am always amazed to see these leaves puncture a tree ;eaf amd end up carrying the leaf off the ground as the plants grow.