My 9th grade geometry teacher used this quote to explain his style of teaching. Truer words are not oft spoken.
“I tell you one thing; if you learn it by yourself, if you have to get down and dig for it, it never leaves you. It stays there as long as you live because you had to dig it out of the mud before you learned what it was.”
~Addie Norton
Snow gets old– after two days without electricity, going to bed when the sun goes down (ok, not quite, but going to bed early), our only heat the wood stove and the cold sun.
The adventure continues; perhaps Ben will come tomorrow. But will I be free to pick him up?
“The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.”-M. L’Engle (A Circle of Quiet)
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Email is a deceiver. It cries, “You have a hundred friends who want to talk to you soon, today, right now!”
“Stop what you’re doing and look at me. Read.
“Read. Reading is good for your soul.”
But we were, all of us, deceived. For while we read, the world spun on, irregardless of the import of our emails, the number of our digital friends, the turnaround time between send and receive.
What if once, I tried talking with my neighbors next door rather than the girl across the globe? What if once, I stayed where I was and listened, breathing deeply the air that is here and now, not infinity and beyond? What if once, just one, I tried to care– care about something, anything.
Is it possible to resist the winter that grinds me to cynicism? How is one strong enough to bear such a burden? Is there no one to mediate, no one to help shoulder the load?
To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC)
…or really, a case of the yellow. Spent the last two days in the media center at a nearby school. I was in need of color correction tools beyond the scope of my own monitor, and found them herein. A few highlights:
- Learned how to target boot my mac so it can be used as an external drive– great for transferring files between computers if you’ve got a firewire.
- Fine tuned the edits in the Apostles’ Creed video I made for Lychgate Productions– it will be available sometime next week on our website. My friend Matt contributed enormously to this effort.
- On my third visit to the lab, my security was compromised as a new lab rat discovered I was not, in fact, a student. Nor was my informant a student. Oh snap. I quickly backpedaled, which might have included several small felonies, and managed to stay, right when the computer I had been using was snagged by some green necked undergrad. Rather than a carefully staged par de duex, I chose a separate computer. Enter woe. The ensuing hours included “deleting” my home folder (read as Wilson’s digital life), combining expletives in innovative ways, calling Apple support and nearly destroying the operator only to discover that my files were not, in fact deleted, but had somehow–mysteriously– been moved to another folder. Panic settled sabatoged into suspicion. Personally, I suspect that the snotty nosed undergrad suspected my espionage into the media lab andmy computer.
After hours of fighting near disaster in generously wide variety of forms, I finished editing and…. lived happily ever after?
This idea is developing. I wonder what would happen if I took a photo of something I drank every day. I may go with this for a while and see what develops.
In the interim: the Downtown Mall, Charlottesville, VA.
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