Interlude

Thought,

Here is some savored time.

Christmas 2014 002 These are very calm moments between  Christmas and the start of the New Year!  Whether together or apart from loved ones, it is a calm time, when one can relax over puzzle, a book, or handwork, while listening to favorite music.

Christmas 2014 017 This year we tackled a post Christmas puzzle with a rich natural theme, and 750 pieces.   Joe played his new Maria Callas remastered Tosca CDs.  Her voice is out of this world!

Christmas 2014 002 Completed over parts of four days, here is the finished masterpiece; all pieces are here!    We will pass it on to someone who may enjoy it!

Dorothea Lange and the “Migrant Mother”

Food, People, Words, , ,

Recently PBS portrayed the  life and work of Dorothea Lange.   Known as a vital vibrant woman, Dorothea Lange lives on through her work showing the human condition as it is.

Migrant mother from wikipedia SEP 1, 2014 Image by Dorothea Lange in 1936, this phtotgraph was downloaded from Wikipedia on September 1, 2014.  This woman kept her identity secret for the rest of her Dorothea Lange’s life.   The woman did not want to embarrass her children by publicizing her name.   Ben Phelan posted the story of the woman who revealed her identity  as Florence Thompson, late in life, at which time she made the following comment.

DSC04214  The Migrant Mother’s retrospective comment, made close to 40 years later.  Interestingly,  this much distributed photograph became part of the lore of this country, being much copied.  It was taken in the tradition of Dorothea Lange’s work, to include a larger story with the subjects of every photograph.  However, it seems 100 percent certain that Dorothea Lange did not know at the time that this work was going to become perhaps the most iconic image of her career.

Our Minds

Brain, Feeling, Thought

At some point I learned that the location of a word was the same across at least several people.  Now I am learning from a National Geographic article that every brain is as unique as each individuals face.   And how do we think? How is our mind related to our brain.  This is not known.  But I know that our minds are tied to our bodies and especially to our brains.

Brain Image, National Geographic dwnld AUG 24, 201432779  A normal human brain.  Picture by National Geographic in an article on the brain, which I found when I looked up Brain games and National Geographic.  But I cannot find it again.

I do not know how these apparent facts can be reconciled.  As a curious individual, I have wondered about many things.  Though I am in possession of all of my faculties, I have noticed that my own personal experience milieu has changed gradually over time, and that topics about which I tend to think shift in their immediacy.

A whole bunch of things probably go into my occipital lobes, and are processed by limbic system, other brain parts, and then by our frontal lobes.  And I get  thought.  The arena of my thoughts can shift quickly, as long as the set  of links is already in my brain.  In light of new information, this is my subjective feeling of myself, my brain at work.