Brain cancer is...
...watching another person have wonderful ideas.
Nova and parents spent the night and woke up to our family tradition, panks, for breakfast (request by Tiana). Panks are thin Swedish pancakes, like crepes.
Above you see Nova preparing for her first bite of pank. She is the fifth generation through my side of the family to enjoy them.
(Fifth that I know of. I'll ask LuAnn and Roene for possible further past generations.)
Tiana and Alex gave us the pleasure of hanging out with Nova while they took care of family business.
An inspirational science educator, Eleanor Duckworth, wrote about the having of wonderful ideas (here). Duckworth counted "having wonderful ideas" as making connections among new experiences and among things we already know. She wrote:
“The nature of creative intellectual acts remains the same
whether it is an infant who for the first time makes the connection between
seeing things and reaching for them…or an astronomer who develops a new theory
of the creation of the universe.”
Today we reveled in the joy of witnessing Nova have wonderful ideas.
We can watch her think. See?
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| Ideas about grass blades and tree leaves |
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| Ideas about ficus leaves |
The second set of ideas was about devices with buttons.
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| Continuing ideas about the orange blue-tooth speaker buttons |
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| New ideas about the black blue-tooth speaker buttons |
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| Ideas about a device with buttons that behaves oddly: the computer mouse. Nothing like the TV remote control. |
What an extraordinary gift to have an entire day to watch so many wonderful ideas be had!
Hope your ideas felt wonderful today too!
Today's Bloom
Summer sent Colorado leaves more beautifully yellow than a blossom today.
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