Notes From Me
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Thursday, January 13, 2005
This weekend I'm going to Wakayama city. There are actually museums there and more than one movie theater. Impressive. Carl Sagan's book Billions and Billions will come with me in the car in case my friends fall asleep or we feel like having quietness. I'm finding that some of the important aspects of my viewpoint coincide with what he thought; mainly that we should learn quickly how to apply appropriate methods to counteract our mistake of treating the biosphere like it could handle any amount of abuse. I usually think of it as a fish tank where, if some crazy chemical spills into one part of the aquarium, the whole habitat is polluted. If you keep spilling strong pollutants into the tank, all the fish die. In his book he pointed out, besides insisting that he never actually said, "Billions and billions," that the atmosphere of earth is comparable in size to the layer of shellac on a classroom globe. It's that thin. |
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Wooden boats, musical instruments and fireworks are some of the best inventions. And cameras. I don't believe in following any one person or set of ideas. There are tiny satiations like orchids along the viny forest floor, blooming unseen, more gorgeous than some could keep from weeping over. Whenever I see the occasional sun rise the colors always surprise me like the flavor of tahini in Holland. Subway cars make great rhythm along the tracks, as does wind in treebranches, the sound pattern of running engines, and sometimes clothes in a dryer. I like Sumerian poetry. Archives
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