Sunday

stegner is filling me with lots of delicious thoughts.  very bgood use of second person - highly engaging and a delicious pun here in there.

happy to complete a review of my obr team's business plan.  this is not sufficient however. there is more to do and I am too happy to whittle the time away.  there are things to do.

there is something wonderful about a communal conversation...something that erly wanted to do.  take advantage of time and space... but maybe a conversation is sufficient.  a conversation trapped in time.  let's call it oral history.  whatsapp conversations delivered as books.  is oral history.com a website... i'm sure it is.

what about help.us?  help-us.com?  as a website for the volunteers.

one thought upon reading mauldin's "the first trillionaire" webpost.  what a crock of shit.  exponential growth can only grow so much, unless it is purely a mathematical exercise.  when it boils down to what currency can be transacted to some modicum of value... wealth can be transacted almost as if it were enzymes.  sigmoidal.

the greatest thing about reading is that you speak and write as you seek to speak and write.  it is lovely to reach not too the corners of your mind, where cobweb inhabit the furthrest reaches, rather to pull a slim book from the brow's furrow, just above the eye's level, crack the spine and imbibe.

i am a shitty writer. but the appearance of the words upon this page is more powerful for me than the simplest of descriptions.

Goals

Listing a few goals for this week:

1. put at least 1 biz concept to paper (bp canvas, some slideware)
2. hook up people with intros and some biz plan material
3. complete taxes




Interesting things that I've come across today:

1. NPR report on forum (2/17/2014) - gender bias in workplace discussed by mother/daughter team writing.


A marriage is the embodiment of billions of years of evolution.  The refinement of the prefrontal cortex and, as a result, imagination has allowed us to yield to cooperation.  But have our days and ways forced us into an inordinate amount of self-gratification or self-focus?  Have we disabled our ability to empathize because of all of the instant gratification we experience? 

Is our cooperative selves at odds with the lizard brains?  '

Children are the paragon of delayed gratification.  What is it about this process?  The sleepless, hazy nights are a prerequisite for the enjoyment a mere smile or comment generate?

Upon reading an article about Joe Gould

empathy pours forth like ceaseless precipitation
it is nature at work - eons to evolve
a prefrontal cortex that mandates the whole
greater than the i(n)d.

benefactress, community, inspiration, dare i say love
human art of suffering - what makes us watch?
the great artists watch, maws agape
the fulfillment of suffering is what we all yearn
yet are unwilling to tolerate ourselves.

because the present is so much more.  more as in impactful.
moored in now is the most difficult place to be.
we prefer the peripatetic future with its uncertain and unknowing possibilities
or the mirror of the past, rose hued by malfunctioning neurons.



It is difficult to write prose.  It is also difficult to write _good_ poetry.  But because the form of poetry comes so easily, in pithy, disconnected bursts, it is welcoming in the way a warm foyer or antechamber welcomes you in from hours in a Midwestern cold.  Mentally safe, comforting, the brain making decisions about your viability and safety.  Contrasted with neuropathic pins and needles differentiating your conditions.  The body abhors a derivative.



Interesting things to think about:
apparently upon Sinclair wrote about the fictional therapeutic use of bacteriophages in the 1920s.


volunteering concept that neil and I were discussing:
leveraging etsy in terms of people making stuff for other people
how to individualize value sets.   removing the squishing of language (gilbert, stumbling onto happiness) -

maintaining modicum of decorum

It is therapeutic to accomplish simple quotidian tasks.  I never found myself particularly task oriented nor organized.  However paying bills, sending out letters, checking mail has always brought a burst of joy.





things to think about:

gene editing technology: crispr and talens (http://www.technologyreview.com/review/524451/genome-surgery/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140211

books to think about:

Book on Ayers (of fox news)

loss

How does one write about loss?  How do I write about loss when that which is missed is not yet lost?  How do you experience the uncertain when it comes to events so finite.

I imagine societies that contemplated death continually as a matter of a living aesthetic.  Others that thought that death was merely another transition point in the cycle of nature.

things that are on my mind:

leukemia
idh1 mutations and clinical trials addressing it.
microbiome and issues associated with cancer.
volunteering data
bacteriophages following a discussion with the epibiome founder.
daycare or preschool for the girls.
music on FL studio

Books to think about:

reflections by marcus aurelius (courtesy of gabe)

Music to think about:

Interesting tidbits:

An npr report on neuroscience and the reduction of art.  The seagull beak and a neuroscientist VM (something).