BeautyDialogues

We Are All Connected

My magical friend & mentor FireHawk Hulin passed along this fabulous video from the Symphony of Science, which samples media snippets from the brightest scientific heart/minds of our time. The message is simple: "we are all connected", but there couldn't be more crucial knowledge for us humans to carry as we go into our next decade.

The power of this symphony's lyrics is literally stunning, and I find myself fascinated by the last line of one stanza - "we are a way for the cosmos to know itself" whose implications are still reverberating ...

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We're made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Beauty and the Bento Box

photo by Haruo Iida on Flickr

A NY Times Opinion post called Beauty and the Bento Box touches on two of my favorite subjects - beauty and food. I loved the format, which was to make a simple point - in this case the aesthetics and care taken in creating these lovely Japanese bento boxes - and then link to four people with different perspectives on the subject. Their responses cover a delightful range across form and function and show how aesthetics feed us on a number of levels.