in last week’s lecture at risd, john stilgoe preached to “bloom where you’re planted”. then during a phone chat on sunday, abe morell excitedly told me to remember that “fairly close by, there’s a lot of extraordinary stuff going on”.
& so on a particularly blustery fall morning, i sat inside my slightly warmer living room [...]
from sir albert einstein, of course:
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to WONDER and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.…To know that what [...]
i met with two of my extra lovely advisors, matt monk & nancy skolos, today & it was suggested that perhaps what my thesis truly is about is wonder: to create wonder, display wonder, give wonder & cause wonder.
it seems so simple…& though i talk about “wonder” when describing my thesis goals, i never thought to distill [...]