Mountain Fires: Fun fact today - MIT releases its undergraduate admission decisions at 1:59 pm today, Pi, The Dead move toward Pi, Honey & Milk

Fun fact today: MIT releases its undergraduate admission decisions at 1:59 pm today. (That is, at 3.14159).

And it's Second Life Pi day. Pi day is CRAZY & IRRATIONAL. Check it out at San Francisco's Exploratorium - the interactive science museum - now in Second Life: slurl.com/secondlife/Exploratorium/157/121/23. And check out the Physics' subject at World University and School with Second Life Physic's exhibits: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Physics made by the same Exploratorium physicist.


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Chatting with a musician friend concerning writing poetry and practicing one's bodymind as if a musical instrument:


A friend writes beautifully:

"Ahead of nightfall, amidst the whir of wind, sounds the song of a bird that backs off, only to start again, from its still point in midair." {J.E.D.}

She told me she only writes poetry when she's in the mood.


Scott:

Writing poetry is fun when it happens, and it's nice to leave the space for it to happen, for such moods to emerge, but it's also nice to shape a little structure, in my experience, for writing, so that writing poetry can happen in the context of writing relaxedly, regularly.


I enjoyed your thoughts about practicing before - that you don't feel complete in a day without practicing. And technique is invaluable ... but how to practice with inspiration is something I continue to think about .. so that practicing is regenerative.


A focus of inquiry for me these days is whether we can play our bodyminds as if playing a musical instrument, for bliss, for example ... curious out of the box thinking, but, you, as a musician, you are training your bodymind to elicit a whole range of emotions and experiences, as well as technique, vis-a-vis musical code. Why not explore this with one's own, bodymind neurochemistry? If so, how ... (to think out of the 'box'?)


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The Grateful Dead move toward Pi for me ... and bliss ...


Grateful Dead - Fire on the Mountain - 4-27-77




There's honey & milk in Jerry's and all of their music together. Such fascinating, musical code ...











(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/03/mountain-fires-fun-fact-today-mit.html - March 14, 2010)