March 2010
18 posts
“Finding love is easy, but stopping what we do that keeps it out is the...”
– From Petrea King Quest for Life blog
Mar 30th
Vegetarian US novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who... →
‘…the breadth of this industry, as much as how terrible it is, is what is so grotesque…Does what we get justify the means and what we lose?…People who study fish populations globally have estimated that in the year 2048 there will be no more wild fish and if that number sound precise it’s because it’s based on a very precise calculation…And when I say no...
Mar 25th
Mar 25th
“Look, and it can’t be seen. Listen, and it can’t be heard. Reach,...”
– Daily Tao.org
Mar 24th
Mar 24th
CuriousWorks Toolkit →
I love this company - look what they just launched, an open-source media toolkit! “This month, CuriousWorks launches its toolkit - a living resource library for artists, educators, cultural leaders and media makers everywhere. As far as CuriousWorks is concerned, we’re all artists, so dive in and make something!”
Mar 22nd
State of The Climate →
“This snapshot provides observations and analysis of Australia’s climate and the factors that influence it. Two organisations, CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have combined to present this current picture of Australia’s climate.” I’ll jump to the conclusion for you (but take a look at the link: informative and easy to follow): “Our observations clearly...
Mar 22nd
From the Mouths of Babes...
Snippets from Year 5 student’s research from Fionn’s school…these are 10 year olds…I cannot wait until they are in charge, won’t be a moment too soon… “I have been learning about Amazon Rainforest deforestation. Did you know that Amazon Rainforest deforestation is mostly caused by people building cattle ranches?” “I have been learning...
Mar 22nd
“In the work now required of us, both the immediate and the long-term, a seeming...”
– Charlene Spretnak: ‘States of Grace: The recovery of meaning in the postmodern age’
Mar 22nd
“If you feel called upon to alleviate suffering in the world, that is a very...”
– Eckhart Tolle
Mar 22nd
Mar 17th
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“…and came to define people as those emotional and unprogrammable things...”
– Identity in the Age of the Internet; Sherry Turkle
Mar 17th
“Your ‘self’ doesn’t stop at the edge of your physical body. Our consciousness...”
– Petrea King
Mar 16th
“…how does instant access to any piece of data, connected to any other...”
– John Neiwenhausen
Mar 15th
“Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the...”
– Tao Te Ching
Mar 11th
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on...”
– Tao Te Ching
Mar 3rd
Mar 2nd
Look what I found...
…clearing out old boxes of papers from my parent’s storage…I’d pulled these fabulous quotes out from ‘The Lady’s Not for Burning’ (Christopher Fry) during a script analysis class back in NIDA days… ‘I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value’ ‘Pride...
Mar 2nd