Rabbit Trails and Spiderwebs

Harmonics There is a rhythm to all of life and it is recognizable to each of us. Individually and corporately, we know it when we see it.   Or when we feel it in our soul, perhaps.   This is what I want to pursue. What is it that makes a book "good", a song "wonderful"?   We use terms such as "the words spoke to me", or "I really felt it", and expect the one that we talked to, to understand what level of intensity that we mean.   Even as I write this, I expect that you understand what I am trying to convey, at the level I am trying to convey it.   To those of a traumatic event or a shared experience that then try to express that to another that did not walk those steps or hear the sound of the gun shooting your dream, they somehow ring hollow and thin, not quite off key but leaving both (the listener and the speaker) not quite complete. Consider the role of a gyroscope.   Although it is really just a simple looking to...

Origami The idea is that it is a single piece of paper.   Folded, and never cut or torn, but results in the final object of an item of artwork or function. When you were in grade school there was the “ cootie catcher ” kind of finger puppet that you could write numbers on and then under a number you would write a bit of wisdom or prophecy, like an “ 8 Ball ” for poor kids.   Folded and bent and creased, creative and fun for the group. The artform of the Origami masters of the orient would amaze the mind with what could be done with only the bending and creasing and folding of the paper to achieve unbelievable items.   Mind blowing fish and buildings and everything in between.   In an interesting shift, there came the day that the computer would add to the game by creating the lines on the paper for you and you could then build things only dreamed of in times past.   The Stag, with a cloven hoof .   The scales on the fish and the plates...