A moment in late March 2007, from when I lived in New York. Walking in the park you can feel you’re ready for spring, but it’s not quite there yet. The weather is not quite so cold, and you’re no longer bracing for snow. People’s attire isn’t so heavy any more. But the buds and […]
Something I do miss from when I was still in New York is the special moving model displays in the city at holiday time. Going back to when I was little, I am thinking about the window displays in the department stores along 5th Avenue especially, which had various playful scenes evocative of the holidays, […]
After several years of planning and work, my DSES radio telescope group completed construction of its first new building on the original antenna site in Kiowa County. This will serve as our new operations building. It will also be a classroom and workshop for working with students and school classes, our radio communications building, and […]
“Upon a certain occasion when President Lincoln was being shown over a man-of-war, he observed a closed, coffin-like box secured in a vertical position close alongside the ship’s galley. He asked what it was, and was told that it was a ‘sweat box’: that for certain offenses men were shut in the box and kept […]
This is a Tang Dynasty poem by 孟浩然 Meng Hao-Ran, (689-740 AD) that I continue to like. It was one of the first Chinese poems I learned to translate for myself. This poem feels suitable right now, as we’re getting Spring rains in Colorado now. 春曉 Spring Dawn 春眠不覺曉 In Spring one sleeps, unaware the […]
A Mother’s Love is the most profound in our lives. She takes us from when we are the most vulnerable, to her safe space where we can discover ourselves and the world around us, to eventually take our place in the world, and she leaves us to do the rest. We each have a mother […]
There was a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech), David Goodstein, who was known for making bad jokes and puns in class. It was not uncommon at Cal Tech or MIT* for students to freely boo or hiss at bad jokes in lectures, or alternatively to laugh or applaud to developments […]
This was in a short tutorial booklet* to help you learn the Morse Code for radio operating. I can see this would help you loosen up, as well as refocus on what the rest of life is all about. REASONSBy Larry Maurice Why do we do what we do?Why is it done by so few?The […]
I saw this when I visited the Museum of the West in Montrose, Colorado (in the western part of the state). The museum is composed of many buildings and artifacts from the region from over a century ago. They had this on the desk in one of the buildings in the town. THE CODE OF […]
During my teens, I heard this story of how you become a Zen Master. After a long journey of many previous challenges and realizations, a Zen disciple comes to sit face to face with the Zen Master. The Zen Master is seated and has a bamboo stick next to him. The Zen Master asks the […]
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