Annie pointed out in a comment that the story about Eratosthenes working on his calculations in his backyard was a lot like Felipe building the backyard Camino. Yes, yes that is the point exactly. It is the same energy, the same focus.
Do we always have to look elsewhere for our answers? Don’t we have capabilities both through education and through native intelligence? Isn’t it something that we used to do more often or commonly. Somehow the big boys downtown have us mesmerized into thinking that we can’t get along without them on every little thing.
Just a line of thought that we have opened up here. I don’t know how far it can go in the next few minutes. Walking this morning at nine o’clock.
I used to call it as shipwreck thinking. In other words what can we do with what we have at hand. We are washed up on the beach and we are short on tools and materials but big on creativity, what can we do?
Really I have to go. What a day! The sky is blue, the corn is growing, the trail beckons. So glad you came by. That’s beginning to sound like Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Anyway, love, Felipe.
Reading today’s discussion related to the Eratosthenes experience made me think of an art studio in a nearby town that employs artists with various physical and mental handicaps. There is no instruction (or contamination) given to the artists…they just paint and sculpt from the heart. It is amazing what can be produced by any of God’s creatures who set out on a journey with “full sails” or even “shipwrecked”!
Here’s my nephew Tommy’s bio: https://www.tierradelsol.org/shop/category/tom-lamb-3/
O’Brien ~ I’m switching to O’Brien because all of a sudden I have too many Jim’s in this vicinity. Yea, checked out the info on Tommy. Thanks. Yes, I am calling for creativity in all fields. We can’t downplay our own ability even if we are only working in the backyard. Looking forward to seeing you amigo. Felipe.
Hola Felipe,
It is interesting to read your point of view of Eratosthenes experience, a way that I had not got from the lines. But reading today’s post, I think I know why is that… and perhaps it is because I have most of the time been one of the “downtown” people, attached to the plans, not missing a semester, not failing at the exams, being within those of the top of the class, and had really little time to observe what was in the backyard… (Oh wait! I do not even have a backyard! :))
Now, going back to the point, I think life gives us enough opportunities to learn that knowledge is amazing, but if we do not embody it, we will never know what we are capable of; but also, to embody it, we need some kind of long term commitment… either to observation, to find the “work around”, or to dedicate time to discover what is between the lines.
Love (from a thinking mind trying to embody it!)
Cris M
PS: if this is Mr. Rogers neighborhood, can we invite Yo Yo Ma??!!! He is one of my heroes!
Cris ~ this is an interesting conversation, yes? What I was getting at is the idea that innovation can come from almost anywhere. If we think that it will come from our sector, then it will come from our sector. It takes confidence to be ready for it when it hits. I would like to believe that there are no “dead” zones, that creative things could pop up just about anywhere.
When you say embody do you mean to internalize? To bring it inside you so you really understand it. I agree if that is what you mean. Yes we need to soak up knowledge where we can. We need to have a commitment, yes. I agree. In English we have this crazy idiom or saying that “there is more than one way to skin a cat.” Meaning that there is more than one way to do a task or to tackle a problem. I think that is what you are saying at the end there.
Thanks for being here. Felipe.x