three-sixty moonbow

three-sixty moonbow

Everybody knows that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. What few people realize it is only through the parts that the whole gets delivered. I see seeing as a muscular exercise, like I see curiosity. It’s a kind of being open, really: If you walk around with a head full of preoccupation, you’re not going to notice anything in your visual life.
Michael Wolff
In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn’t a story.
– Malcolm Cowley, excerpted from “Advice to Writers” (via http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2011/11/on-writing-12.html)
In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

mathematician vi hart on the headache-inducing consequences of π.

see you on june 28th.

life in fall

life in fall

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein
365q:

Day 353/365

365q:

Day 353/365