The river and everything I remembered
about it became a possession to me,
a personal, private possession, as nothing
else in my life ever had.  Now it ran
nowhere but in my head, but there
it ran as though immortally....
In me it still is, and will be until I die,
green, rocky, deep, fast, slow, and
beautiful beyond reality.
--James Dickey in Deliverance 

For Light

by John O'Donohue

Light cannot see inside things.

That is what the dark is for:

Minding the interior,

Nurturing the draw of growth

Through places where death

In its own way turns into life.

In the glare of neon times,

Let our eyes not be worn

By surfaces that shine

With hunger made attractive.

That our thoughts may be true light,

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Notes from the article:
Cannabinoids take the brain by STORM
Wed, 12/10/2014 -- Holly Brothers PhD
http://www.sciguru.org/newsitem/18095/cannabinoids-take-brain-storm
( notes )

There are exactly two media for thought
which we know we can use well:
oral culture and writing.
Writing is better:
more permanent, more adaptable,
richer, deeper, subtler,
with a longer memory.
-- Cosma Rohilla Shalizi

( poem )

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( notes--there's hardly any science about this, it's all theoretical )

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Education
is what remains
after one has forgotten
everything
he has learned
in school.
--Albert Einstein

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