The Crow: we are stardust

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Cosmos Revisited

Several weeks ago, when I was at the end of my rope, dangling over a bottomless pit of despair, I received an email which pointed me to a wonderful video, where - upon visiting YouTube - I found another. They were from the Symphony of Science web site. I signed up for their e-mail notification messages. Today, an email arrived telling me about the latest video, and once again I found another one. The first two videos snapped me out of the downward spiral, which started me on the road to recovery. I have long admired Carl Sagan, so am happier than a pig in mud with the new videos. Hope you like them as well.

Meaningful Quotes

"We are displaced by time."

-Marian Marshall Suplee Griest, late (first) mother-in-law, spoken to me in January 1994, in a dream after her death.

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - D. H. Lawrence (via Whiskey River, 8-22-2014)

"There is something scary about letting ourselves
go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection. It means that we will say things we didn't mean to say and express feelings we can't explain. It means that we will be onstage and not have complete control, that we won't know what we're going to play until we begin,
until the bow is drawn across the strings.

While this spontaneous method might be frightening, it's also an extremely valuable source of creativity. The lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity. We are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all." - Jonah Lehrer (via Whiskey River, 10/22/2014)