"Words are charms."
Ian Frazier
27 Oct 2016
Browsing category: Wonder
18 Sep 2016
As a lover of patterns and a fond advocate of Montessori education, I was always so happy to have my children show me the tessellations they produced as the pre-cursor to the more complex mathematical concepts the Montessori materials introduce. Beautifully tiled surfaces that repeated designs, trained their naive eyes to search out patterns and see the order and beauty in things. Seeing the symmetry in complex patterns alerted their brains to the possibilities of what could come next. I also remember sitting bored into
15 Sep 2016
"Be curious, not judgmental."
Walt Whitman
14 Sep 2016
"I dwell in possibility." Emily Dickinson
23 Aug 2016
"What makes us human is an ability to ask questions."
Jane Goodall
09 Jul 2016
At school, I had a friend who had a map of the world that occupied a whole wall in his bedroom. He had placed a pin with a red coloured head on every city he had visited in his meagre 16 years on the planet. His family was wealthy and they had travelled North America and Europe and much of Southern Africa. I was envious of the red dots that salt and peppered his map and dreamed that one day I could populate a map of the world with such proof points of visitation. Whilst I have been fortunate enough to visit five of our seven
03 Jun 2016
"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."
Paul Klee
14 May 2016
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Recently I turned fifty. It's a milestone birthday, right? It's meant to mean something. Prior to this event I was doing a fair amount of reflection on what I wanted it to mean for me to reach half a century. In so many ways it's just an arbitrary number that has little significance. It's only the story you associate with the age of fifty that makes you feel something about your identity. Regardless of the
04 May 2016
"You have to dream before your dreams can come true." A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
07 Apr 2016
"Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act."
Dr. Seuss