The lyrics to Sarah McLachlan’s song, “Oridinary Miracle” are not what I’m talking about when I say that the world is strange and mysterious:
Sun comes up and shines so bright
And disappears again at night.
It’s just another ordinary miracle today.
What’s strange and really inspiring? What if I told I had personally been in a place where the sun didn’t set? And it just happened to be near the foot of 23000+ ft high mountain?
Seen on Technology Review: Blogs: Ed Boyden’s blog: How to Think:
Two practical notes. The first is in the arena of time management. I really like what I call logarithmic time planning, in which events that are close at hand are scheduled with finer resolution than events that are far off. For example, things that happen tomorrow should be scheduled down to the minute, things that happen next week should be scheduled down to the hour, and things that happen next year should be scheduled down to the day. Why do all calendar programs force you to pick the exact minute something happens when you are trying to schedule it a year out?
image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace