And maybe a word is more than a thing. It seems to laugh, it seems to cry. It is all wonders and is all a lie. And maybe we are beings drawn in words. Choking on their meanings blurred.A drop of poison in the sweet of honey.Yeast fermenting in hope and money.Knife that slays or barely sighs.Bridges forming, crossing eyes.And in the end, what is a word? Playdough.
One of my happiest childhood moments was when I got lost in books. After having a child, children’s books made me feel like I was reborn as a child, too. One of the most requested books in our household is In the Town All Year Round by Sussane Berner Rotraut. This was my first exposure to wimmelbooks, a special form of picture books with hidden objects. Wimmelbooks are a distinctive type of picture book characterized by their large-format, wordless illustrations filled with intricate details. These books are primarily …
As I said goodbye to my last job, I started to think about all the people I met there. While creating this mental list, I began to see a pattern. There were faces with no names, names that made me smile, and names that made me feel grateful. First, there are liquid people who fill a void, but when the door is opened, their names are gone from one’s mind. You might see them again on the streets, wave at them, but still, you …
At the end of one of his lectures, Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky recommended Chaos: Making a new science, a book by James Gleick. While reading it, the following quote struck me: When I came into this game, there was a total absence of intuition. One had to create intuition from scratch. Intuition as it was trained by the usual tools – the hand, the pencil, and the ruler – found these shapes [fractals] quite monstrous and pathological. The old intuition was misleading. The first …