This is one of the reasons I like living in the Pacific Northwest. I enjoy the clear blue skies, the green trees and the snow on the mountain where it belongs!
Before I got to breakfast this morning I was listening to an interview with Elizabeth Little the author of Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic. (link here) There was an interesting discussion of color (toward the end of the interview around minute fourteen) on how one language only refers to color in terms of black and white, or another language uses the same word for both blue and green, or another language refers to only color in terms of contrast not hue.
Living consciously...
The reading today was really just this: Conscious commitment begins the process of positive change. Yep. The practice was to make a commitment to self-knowledge, truth, integrity, and creativity.
Is it that simple?
Friday, January 18, 2008
PNW
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Making the commitment is that easy- it's keeping the commitment that is hard!!
The photo is beautiful! Is that a view from your house?
Your view is spectacular!
I am really enjoying The abstract piece from yesterday's weekly collage post has great appeal in both color and movement!
Its interesting to think about how language influences what we see isn't it.... When I lived in Canada's far north and learned the variety of words for snow I came to see the different textures and kinds of snow -- each had something special about them, that set them apart. When I lived further south it was all just "snow", nothing to differentiate the grouping. I think we do the same thing with colour -- green includes everything from forest green to lime and then some! (Hence the distinct names "forest" and "lime") but two kinds of "lime" green can be quite different from one another (just run out of one in a project and you'd notice "matching it" isn't so easy!) -- just for many of us and our projects they are similar enough that their differences don't matter...
Is that Mt. Rainier? We were in the PNW once - I absolutely loved it and would love to return some day.
You still inspire me with the goals you set for yourself and your faithful work to achieve them.
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