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Friday, March 7, 2008

Luther Burbank
[1849 - Luther Burbank, naturalist, born in Lancaster, Massachusetts]

Painter Piet Mondrian Piet Mondrian - Rectangles
[1872 - Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondrian, painter, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands]

Maurice Ravel
[1875 - Maurice Ravel, composer, born in Ciboure, France]

Academy Award-winning Actress Anna Magnani
[1908 - Anna Magnani, Academy Award-winning actress, born in Rome]

Selma march Alabama police attack demonstrators
[1965 - About 525 demonstrators begin a 54 mile peaceful protest march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol in Montgomery, and are greeted with Southern Hospitality]

Director Stanley Kubrick
[1999 - Stanley Kubrick, filmmaker, dies in England at age 70]

franklin-bifocals-60 Enlightenment

mobius strip

The path to enlightenment lies along the single surface of a mobius strip. It is thus a road of finite length, but it has no beginning and no end. Have you noticed that when viewed from a certain perspective the mobius strip looks just like the mathematical symbol for infinity?

mobius strip - infinity image

Ants too may trudge along a path on the mobius strip, blindly following the one ahead and sensing the one behind.

mobius strip ants

Ants do not look up to see the stars. The stars do not care if anyone looks at them.

mobius strip reflection in water

He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao Tzu

William's Whimsical Words:

Those footprints ye occasionally stumble upon along thy path are probably thine own.

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