Fun Stuff
- Joyce Davis
- May 12
- 2 min read
“My deep and abiding feeling is that if you look at anything closely enough, there will be new riches to be found.”-- Sidney Nagel (Physicist)
One advantage of being a newbie is that you can make mistakes, and not many people see them.
I'm not a newbie to blogging, but I am a newbie to this website.
I have two blogs already, well, more, but I wanted a soft place to land—thus Traveling with Jo.
I found, though, if I'm in a funk, it's hard to find Happy, so I'm inching toward it and will keep walking or riding a horse, until I get there. Together if you’re with me, we will set our compass toward happiness and keep on keeping on until we are full-blown, outrageous, ridiculously optimistic people. Perhaps that is the way that positive change comes about.
Come join me on.
"If you've ever wondered where to begin--think about what you want to learn, go find it, and invite others to come along on the journey."
I'm inviting you.
Speaking of outrageous, this tickled me: Dr. Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago, says it's great to be tenured, for he can investigate the fun stuff.
They said, 'You're a scientist, you're not supposed to care about things like that.' But it matters to me that you appeal to as many aspects of the human endeavor as you can."
Why do sloppy cups make rings?
Why is the darkest coloring of the coffee at the edges?
Let him tell you.
And he can tell you why we get that beautiful crown from a splash of water, or how not to get it.
Finding Beauty and Truth in the Mundane Occurrences
I know that each of us has a story to tell, and each of us has a creative expression to deliver. I also wonder about our purpose and our job on earth. We came here for a reason: our job is to find it.
A sign on the back of Ester Hicks' monster bus is: "Life is supposed to be fun!" and she gets thumbs up on the freeway.
Your life may be quiet or loud, grand or simple. We could be as Ray Bradbury's butterfly story. On a safari back into time, travelers were supposed to stay on a specified wooden path through the jungle so as not to interfere with the ecosystems. One person stepped off the bridge and accidentally squashed a butterfly. That one dead butterfly changed the future.
You do not know the influence you have.
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