February 2012
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January 2012
4 posts
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Stimulated Emission
Again, lots of thoughts.
About electrons.
About states of being.
Forbidden states, and resonance.
Us. us us us us.
We’re all just like vibrating bits of matter. bouncing around at different energy levels.
Finding our resonance.
falling to short of excitation.
Lucky enough, once and awhile to amplify.
With the aid of a neighbor or outside influence.
Sometimes, we sync,...
Back to the keyboard
Back to writing. Back to reflection. Back to what I know I really should be doing all the time.
Still in limbo land, sustaining on future dreams and postponed accomplishments. Plenty of hugs and hearty late breakfasts to go along. Who could need more really? This time will never be again, but it’s hard to remember to savor every slow and quiet moment when there is no shortage of them....
“We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient...”
– Cornel West (via whatshallwedo)
Boundlessness
December 2011
4 posts
“And what happens if you transgress? If you are a journalist who gets a good...”
– politicalprof (via theamericanbear)
“A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning...”
– Irvin D. Yalom, The Theory and Practice Of Group Psychotherapy (via psychotherapy)
November 2011
4 posts
deadbeat, thump
ife’s lost something more than gloss. but that’s the only real word i can put on it.
Maybe i just need a better fotographer. capture the essence i think I’ve lost
i miss being dead beat with my dead beat friends. that had some beauty to it that can only be explained in riot folk songs.
I thought when i quit my job I’d be beautiful again. I’d magically make dead beat friends again. Life...
The fragility of being human. The swings of overbearing emotions of sunshine and inexplicable despair. The contemplation of a dual existence of both. Filling and emptying the body relentlessly. Many seek to live, balancing unwaveringly between. To afraid to wander too far from middle ground because the climb and fall both could cost so much. we all try at some point to hold steady, but true...
October 2011
2 posts
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Biological Illustrations of Stochastic Resonance →
from closing remarks:
It is apparent that stochastic resonance has established itself as a legitimate process in which systems are able to amplify a subthreshold signal with the addition of noise. In all of these models, both dynamical and non-dynamical, the noise is visualized as being entrained on the incoming signal, riding atop it and aiding in the transferring of information to the detection...
Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while... →
nelvieee:
This is perfection.
Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance
1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of...
September 2011
13 posts
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Incredible.
Incredible Incredible day. So many thoughts have cross my mind today. So many conversations and observations, perhaps I’ll make a list to jogg my memory before i dive right in.
-Morning, stories of the past, comparisons of the parents when they were my age
-the long life, the unimaginable future, this will all be extinct
-the sharing of stories of passions of dream
-Boulder, what’s...
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The HALF PRICE sale rack
Nothing can turn your day around more than a sale rack WITH A BUY ONE GET ONE FREE SIGN ON IT. THANK YOU LONDON. It was another beautiful day in the UK, just got off to a bumpy morning after a relentless night of awakeness. The cure for that was finally a warm cup of milk and some teddy grahams.
Once I was finally roused and not so grumpy, mother and I hopped on the train from Maidenhead to...
A spot of tea before a jetlagged nap
Just kidding I had instant coffee, since I secretly love instant coffee especially when made fresh by my great aunt audrey. Arrived! Yet still confused on the time difference, and so not totally aware of the bizaare amount of hours travelled. I went through a phase of being totally frustrated with flying, but I think I’ve come around again. Even after thinking our plane was late (due to...
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“Real science is creative, as much so as painting, sculpture, or writing. ...”
– excerpt from The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the foundation of life by Robert Becker and Gary Selden
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August 2011
9 posts
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What is Your Spirituality?
The question of spirituality has come up often with friends recently and I am fascinated by the broad, and also narrow definitions people can have.
To me, spirituality means being inspired and enlightened by the complexity, simplicity, beauty of the universe in whatever manifestation. Specifically I see patterns and resonance, ebbs, flows and oscillations and am able to make parallels between...
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““It is borne out in everything we perceive—in the movement of a planet, in...”
– Nikola Tesla, excerpts from The Problem of Increasing Human Energy
Just bought this on amazon after receiving a gift card for filling out a grad student survey. I was in the market for something with a good narrative perspective of molecular biology and energy. It was an interesting amazon...
“Niece: I asked him [one day] if he was an athiest
Joseph Rotblat: Not an...”
– My new favorite scientist, Joseph Rotblat, the only nuclear scientist to quit the Manhattan Project before the bomb was dropped.
excerpts from: http://www.nfb.ca/film/strangest_dream
additional reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Rotblat
(via robbprescott)
boom.
Back to the journey within.
Searching for the subtle moments of inspiration.
A deep silence is the start.
Doesn’t seem like there has been enough of that in my life recently.
a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
I need to make space for the words in my head.
Spending a lot of time building frameworks, but who am I kidding , that never works well for me.
Instead, I’ll...
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The Neuroscience of Changing Toxic Thinking... →
psychotherapy:
A very helpful overview of the interplay between our conscious and unconscious minds, and the role our own thoughts play in determining how we act and feel.
Excerpt:
Whether you understand its messages or not, your subconscious continually communicates with you through emotion-based action-signals to let you know where you are in relation to where you want to be. You’re not...
“Memories are in fact living things. They are neuronal pathways that have to be...”
– …Oh.
(via infinity-imagined)
July 2011
9 posts
geometryofdopeness:
“Everything you want in life is right outside your comfort zone.”
—
Robert Allen (via kingcreative)
This is fitting for a moment I had last night.
I’m in a women’s group and often we get caught up talking about life on the surface. Gossip and context, as i think about it a lot, and the facilitators often have to bring us deeper. What’s at the root of...
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moon reminder
How long till the next full moon?
Can we make it ours, and ours alone.
The battle of forces between bodies and moon.
It pulls us and we pull back together.
I need the moon to remember. To make it feel like the beginning again.
It’s too soon to start forgetting, the swell of the moon. The light of my night.
Lets stay up all night disagreeing about the subtlties of the universe.
Lets...
