WELL, WELL, WELL, THREE HOLES IN THE GROUND. Cold up here; scant snow. Mountain as hard as rock candy. Very few animals about. Saw some wild turkey tracks under the pine trees where they browse for pine-nuts. Spring, where are you? But, I asked for it, years ago, when I moved to Vermont. I knew what I was getting into. Still, I want to be on a boat in the Caribbean or on an island in the Gulf of Siam or tucked up in a nice apartment in Paris or Bologna.
The energy I like best is the Sun, except of course for LOVE, the real energy in the universe.
If this offends you, mea culpa.
I’ve been thinking about energy and its flow lately: Electromagnetism, Gravity, The Strong Force, The Weak Force. It’s all around us in the energy of people (the crowd at the Super Bowl, opera, pop concerts, excitement in a classroom when there is a good teacher and a good lecture, the feeling of unity over a cause (not always a good one: witness the great rallies held by Hitler in the 1930’s) the joy of people in love, kids, kids, kids. Yin and Yang.
Magnetic poles North and South. Batteries with positive and negative poles. Energy in the atom. WOW! I repeat: it’s all about energy. Start with the Big Bang and move forward--except in space/time there is no forward.
MONEY. Yup, here it is again: Energy. The flow of money keeps the world going; its stoppage or slowing causes problems. Greed disturbs it. People are motivated by it. It spawns such nightmarish creatures as sub-prime mortgages and derivatives. It drives people mad.
The energy I like best is the Sun, except of course for LOVE, the real energy in the universe.
If this offends you, mea culpa.
Ray (it’s still cold out there. Yuck!!)
Great blog!
Reminded me of something I heard about on NPR the other day that I wanted to mention to you. Have you heard of the phenomena of Geomagnetic Reversal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal)?
Hope all is well, and I am sure spring is RIGHT around the corner... that or 4 feet of snow. Stay warm and give my best to all.
Ciao!
Posted by: J Donoghue | February 19, 2010 at 02:17 PM
fun update Ray =)
Posted by: Mike Hedge | April 27, 2010 at 05:37 AM
Wow, never thought we have the same taste there. I also think the Sun has the greatest power in the whole universe - solar system - galaxy.
I really think people should use solar energy as the main source of energy on our planet.
By the way, I like the photo - the man who looks like he's holding the sun. I'm going to have a photo of something like that in the future. XD
Posted by: Gian Faye Paguirigan | September 23, 2010 at 06:58 PM