Our plan was to head towards Island on Sunday with a bunch of things for a small festival. Today we learned that we’re right in the path of a tropical storm and we’re going to get somewhere between one and 2 inches of rain over there.… So we decided to delay the festival… But then several of us said what the heck let’s go camp in the rain. So the current plan is that on Sunday a few of us will paddle out to Woods Ivan and brave the storm. We’ve all been sort of quarantining for this so you might as well have fun.
We did still use the day to finish up our statue of Louis the 16th… Next week is Bastille day and we have decided to create an homage to Louis the 16th
He starting to look pretty good…
Other highlighted the date was having lunch with Diane and our friend Finn… I had the first french fry I have had since March… Yum
It’s too hot to sleep right now so I think I’m going for a swim
In 30 minutes we can mark Nichola Tesla is 164th birthday. He was born at the stroke of midnight between July 9 and July 10 in 1856 in Smija Croatia…
I know that because a) I’m a huge Tesla nerd… And B)… I’m helping this week with a summer camp for kids put on by the Tesla science Center in Shoreham New York.… It’s all being done remotely so I’m doing it from here. My only task is to show up a couple of times a week and Coke create with the kids who are from kindergarten through fifth grade. The topic is invention. Yesterday the kids chose to do a group project which involves creating a virtual
Rube Goldberg device which takes a penny in from the left does something amazing in the middle and squirts the penny out to the right. I did the following in honor of Tesla’s birthday. Make sure you watch all the way to the slow Mo
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’
