grandie j, age 5, believes in science.
—
“by denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”
-galileo galilei
Jun5
Tag Archives: science
May6
chicken or the egg?
today, mr. roger, our snowplow driver
came back to our room
and brought some of his favorite birds to meet us
these two are chickens named marco polo and maranella
and they are married.
his granddaughter has a chicken for a pet and reads with it
and he really loves birds
even more than snowplowing.
mr. roger even showed us some of maranella’s treasures – her eggs
and we had the chance to gently touch everything and ask all kinds of questions.
it was amazing because he knew all of the answers.
he sure knows a lot about a lot.
—
“if I hadn’t started painting, i would have raised chickens.”
-grandma moses
Apr27
unravelling.
public art found in the dequindre cut, detroit, mi.
(artist unknown)
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science is about unravelling nature.
n. r. narayana murth
Apr23
body of knowledge.
another beautiful day for a peaceful walk in ann arbor
“science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
-carl sagan
Apr22
forest cake.
“it’s a forest cake.”
—
“the earth is what we all have in common.”
— wendell berry
Apr20
attention.
when we set out on our hike
to see what spring animals
were out there
we thought maybe
we’d see a bear
awakening from a long winter’s nap
though we most likely
scared any creature
who happened to be in our oncoming path
or most anywhere in the vicinity
with our marching and laughing and yelling and jumping
and then
we looked closer
and at last
found an animal
passed over by many
who was not afraid of us
just waiting to to be discovered
a single ant.
—
“life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.”
-nadia boulanger
Apr18
fruit of life.
aviary water ripples
butterfly lands
penguins free swim
ibises play
—
all on a sunday picnic at the zoo with the family.
—
“color is the fruit of life.”
-guillaume apollinaire
Apr12
the math of trees.
when looking at the trees on the kinder playground
it’s easy to see how tall the little people are
the green does not dare begin until it is
above and safely out of the reach of their tiny hands
even if they are standing on tippy toes
pulling, climbing, bending, picking, snapping
the trees do the math and live to tell the tale.
—
“trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”
-zora neale hurston
Mar28
wingspan.
at the nature center for grandie v’s 6th birthday celebration
the scientist helps us to measure our wingspans
before we take a stroll outside to find this beautiful bird
rescued and healing a broken wing
whose wingspan we hope will return one day
and we are grateful to have our wings.
“happiness makes up for height for what it lacks in length.”
-robert frost
Feb9
fire and ice.
just chillin’ in the polar ice cave
when quite suddenly
a firefighter
from out of nowhere
makes a daring rescue
and
enters stage left.
—
“it’s more fun to experience things when you don’t know what’s going to happen.”
-louis c. k.
