It was a tough day… Lots of small frustrations and disappointments. I’m Feeling that everyone’s stress is coming out as small amounts of friction. I’m trying to use lessons from improv to lower friction whether it’s coming from me or at me… I did a fair job of doing that today… Still lots of room for improvement. That’s why it was so nice when Diane and Caio talked me into a late hike up Bolton. There had been a huge rain storm and the temperature has dropped almost 20 Degrees. We walked up in the beautiful air… And got a great look at the sunset over the mountains. It is great for all of our souls
I’m grateful to be surrounded by such great people
Super busy day. I did take a few minutes to do a project for my friend Hannah at the Tesla science Center at Wardenclyff. She’s our new outreach director at the museum and hit the ground running. She has three summer camps… All virtual… Running through the summer. The first one is running this week and it’s about making things. It’s for kids from 1st to 5th grade. She’s doing a fantastic job. One of our challenges was to make a musical instrument and then use it to play the same version of twinkle twinkle little star.… I’ve just been looking at some of the other kids versions which we’re going to edit all together… They are phenomenal.… Here is my meager contribution playing my ‘drumbone’
Super busy day today. The highlight was… Believe it or not… The video meeting with our town select board. Diane had helped organize all of our neighbors had an issue related parking along the preserve the land in front of her house.… Thanks to her we were super organized and presented a really good case. It was so interesting hearing all the discussion between the neighbors, the select board, the police department… It’s clearly a complex issue but I feel that we were heard… And we saw the right thinking taking place. I am glad to live In a town and in a state where democracy still works..
I hope we can get back to thinking that way as a country
img_8272.movGet into the end of a very nice four-day weekend . It was so great not thinking about work.
Spent most of the day working with my friends on the fire and water festival. We’re building a burning sculpture… Nowhere near as nice as our friend Chris could do it… But it’s fun to try to build something. This will be a 10 foot tall figure of king Louis sitting on his ‘throne’ Who’s head flies off at just the right moment.
We were trying to find a way to launch Louise 3 1/2 pound head… We tried springs, we tried bungees… Which sort of worked but was kind of unimpressive I finally decided to resort to some “G” rocket engines… These are much bigger than the kind you let your kids play with
I wasn’t even sure that these very powerful engines could lift a total weight of about 4 pounds… (That’s a lot for a small rocket)… But it ended up going 100 feet in the air and almost smashed newts car. It missed by 3 feet
It’s really fun figuring out these mechanisms etc. with my friends
