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A world that I think I have to be able to explain scientifically or that I think I want to explain, is boring. Or maybe what I mean is this: If I have to go through the rigors of explanation for my experience of life, that is boring. Life and all its amazing moving parts has an explanation, a theory. Maybe my experience does too, but I don‘t care. I don‘t have time.
If I reduce the connectedness I feel in the world to rushes of chemicals in my brain, I will be bored and wrong. I know I will be wrong because we don‘t know what we think we know about much of anything in science. I have earned my right to say this because I work in a very applied science. All the time I encounter the unexpected. It is not magic in those moments, it is that my scope is too narrow, pointed in the wrong direction or clouded by my expectations, pretense, ego. Life is surprising, erratic.
Science often does not want to incorporate the chaotic elements in the theory because the math gets complex very quickly. But chaos is what I see all the time. Our breath is not regular and that is a good thing. We need to sigh and yawn to open up all the little air ways at the very end of the lung. Sometimes the appendix is on the left side instead of the right, and even though I can explain it, I can‘t predict it and don‘t want to.
All this to say that I am in Hana, Maui. The mist rolls down verdant hills at the base of Haleakala. It is seven in the morning. The light is golden here. The arc of Hamoa Bay ends in a perfect dark sand beach. The scent of plumeria swirls around us. Plumeria are highly unlikely flowers that grow at the end of leafless branches on trees that other wise look dead. They might be the most beautiful, fragrant flowers I have seen. Beautiful local people sat with me in the grass of a church here and told me their stories and listened to my own for two hours in the evening yesterday, hugged me like I was one of their own. I was. I am.
Maybe you would say these are all just things I have not seen and newness makes us believe in magic. It is ignorance that starts that process toward magic and then experi ence tempers us and allows truth in. Maybe. Being tempered means to be hardened, like steel. I don‘t want to be hardened. I want to stay supple, open. I want the surprise to raise the question over and over in me, like the waves rolling in to Hamoa Bay in magical Hana.
Autumn aspen tree forest in the Colorado Rocky Mountains Cottonwood Pass area. Cottonwood Pass (elevation 12,126 feet is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of south-central Colorado, United States. It is located near the border of Gunnison and Chaffee counties in Colorado and is in the Sawatch Range. The area surrounding the pass is mostly forest, with the San Isabel National Forest to the east and the Gunnison National Forest to the west.
The Continental Divide is marked at the saddle point of Cottonwood Pass. The pass is closed seasonally due to heavy snowfall, typically from around October until sometime in May. When open, the pass can be accessed from Buena Vista to the east by following Chaffee County Road 306. Near the summit, the road name changes to Gunnison County Road 209 as it continues to the west, passing near Taylor Park Reservoir and continuing down into the town of Almont. The majority of this road is paved, with the exception being the section linking the summit of Cottonwood Pass with Taylor Park Reservoir, which is gravel. When open, the pass is one of the few routes through the Sawatch Range accessible in a standard two-wheel drive passenger vehicle. Independence Pass is another such seasonal route through this mountain range, while efforts are made to ensure that U.S. 50 at Monarch Pass remains open year-round for all vehicles, barring extreme weather conditions.
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My Self, My Family, My Community, My World: Family Trees
George Washington Elementary School
Ms. Lauren Parker, Teaching Artist
Mr. Myers and Ms. Mack, Classroom Teachers
2nd Grade
This is an interdisciplinary project based on the 2nd grade social studies curriculum on geography, family, and community. Most of the focus is on inter-personal relationships. In this lesson, we created family trees and talked about what makes a family. The diversity in this classroom is terrific! We learned a lot about each student’s ancestry and heritage. The trees are done using a “resist” technique with cray-pa and watercolor. Once the trees were created, each student created tiny, framed portraits of their family members to decorate the branches of their family trees. “Magic Books” were then created from one sheet of paper. In the books, we wrote about our families. Feel free to look through them to learn more!
Students
1. Jade Adams
2. Khamin Beya
3. Nakeirya Breedlove
4. Steven Chen
5. Ahtziri Cruz-Bautista
6. Naeem Felder
7. Christopher Fleming
8. Michaella Hernandez
9. Ajzon'e Houston
10. Jialiang Lin
11. Marco Nieto
12. Jovany Sanchez
13. Alain Stodomingo
14. Byshir Campbell
Bocholt Tree
Artist Bernard Tindall, Raku Works Sculptural Arts
Date 1991
Materials Painted Metal
Location Borough of Rossendale
OS grid ref SD 8101222588
Coordinates Latitude 53.699381 Longitude -2.289070
Postcode BB4 6AJ
Located beside the main Rawtenstall roundabout, the Bocholt Tree celebrates Rossendale's links with its German twin-town. The sculpture is a symbol of unity between the people of Rossendale and Bocholt, whose civic symbol is the tree, and acts as a reminder to the people of Rossendale that they have friends in other parts of Europe. The tree is a symbol of life and natural growth.
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Sharan Bispham, a Rossendale artist and community supporter, has again produced an amazing homage to the Christmas season by decorating the Bocholt Tree on Bocholt Way, Rawtenstall. The Tree was created by sculptor Bernard Tindall to celebrate Rossendale’s twinning links with the town of Bocholt in Germany.
Sharan has been dressing the Tree for some years, and over that time has celebrated many events including Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s day, The Olympics and the 60′s Festival.
The Bocholt Tree is now an Icon and symbol of Rossendale, thanks mainly to Sharan’s excellent work.
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You wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I promise that she put the tree back the way it was when we were done, none the worse for wear.
My Self, My Family, My Community, My World: Family Trees
George Washington Elementary School
Ms. Lauren Parker, Teaching Artist
Mr. Myers and Ms. Mack, Classroom Teachers
2nd Grade
This is an interdisciplinary project based on the 2nd grade social studies curriculum on geography, family, and community. Most of the focus is on inter-personal relationships. In this lesson, we created family trees and talked about what makes a family. The diversity in this classroom is terrific! We learned a lot about each student’s ancestry and heritage. The trees are done using a “resist” technique with cray-pa and watercolor. Once the trees were created, each student created tiny, framed portraits of their family members to decorate the branches of their family trees. “Magic Books” were then created from one sheet of paper. In the books, we wrote about our families. Feel free to look through them to learn more!
Students
1. Jade Adams
2. Khamin Beya
3. Nakeirya Breedlove
4. Steven Chen
5. Ahtziri Cruz-Bautista
6. Naeem Felder
7. Christopher Fleming
8. Michaella Hernandez
9. Ajzon'e Houston
10. Jialiang Lin
11. Marco Nieto
12. Jovany Sanchez
13. Alain Stodomingo
14. Byshir Campbell
I was driving home tonight and I always look at this tree and the vacant old log buildings when I go by. Tonight I had to stop.
The words that come to mind are "Bibity Bobity Boo.... Can't help it... used to work at an animation studio.
You have to snap a picture when you see so many Undies being sold with a Christmas tree :) #Magic-Madagascar #docu-style