The other night, after several stories and songs while putting E down to bed, I told him, “You have to close your eyes now and go to sleep”.
And he said, “I can’t go to sleep. I have a body no bigger than a turkey’s with a wingspan the size of a small plane”.
How can you argue with that?
(This is a direct quote from The Dinosaur Alphabet Book – except for the “I can’t go to sleep” part.)
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I really enjoyed this article on C. G. Jung‘s long hidden, about to be published “Red Book”. Lengthy, but worth it. Two passages from the article:
Of those who did see it, at least one person, an educated Englishwoman who was allowed to read some of the book in the 1920s, thought it held infinite wisdom — “There are people in my country who would read it from cover to cover without stopping to breathe scarcely,” she wrote — while another, a well-known literary type who glimpsed it shortly after, deemed it both fascinating and worrisome, concluding that it was the work of a psychotic.
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Jung wrote later in his book “Memories, Dreams, Reflections,” “I knew that I had to let myself plummet down into them.” He found himself in a liminal place, as full of creative abundance as it was of potential ruin, believing it to be the same borderlands traveled by both lunatics and great artists.
Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious – NYTimes.com.
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Back in 2004 Episcopal blogger Sarah Dylan Breuer designed a worship service utilizing U2 songs in lieu of traditional hymns and dubbed it a “U2charist.” The idea quickly spread among other Episcopal churches and has since been utilized by congregations in a variety of denominations.
via U2 +Eucharist = U2charist at the often very fascinating Britannica Blog.
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This should be great. I’ve always wondered what color a Diplodocus is. Elliot will be psyched.
Dinosaurs in colour
“It is a question that has baffled the greatest scientific minds – and those of the average seven-year-old: What colour were dinosaurs?” Andrew Johnson writes in The Independent on Sunday. “Now a dramatic breakthrough in fossil examination has sparked a race to discover an answer that may satisfy the scientific community as well as anxious crayon wielders. A research team at Yale University believe they have established a technique which can identify the colour of fossilized feathers and fur. Preliminary results suggest that the true colours of dinosaurs may soon be revealed. A team headed by Prof. Derek Briggs, director of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, discovered that tiny, fossilized structures previously believed to be the remains of bacteria were in fact carbon deposits called melanosomes, which indicate the colour pattern of modern birds’ feathers.”
via Street fighting, Earth’s calmest spot, e-mail rudeness – The Globe and Mail.
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