January 2009
43 posts
African Mountains
dylannord:
Was it God’s fingers pressing up from the molten center that forced the mountains to awe us, more likely it was previously rolling water frozen in an instant, now algae covered. Perhaps, some great being saw it in his mind and spent a millenia carving his dream out of mineral. Did Zeus lose a bet only to be forced to throw acid on the rolling hills of this dark continent he loved...
Frank Lloyd Wright
Just reading a book about this amazing man. Below is a link to a residence he designed in PA called Fallingwater, it inspired Ayn Rand to write The FountainHead.
http://www.fallingwater.org/explore
January 20, 2009
Tomorrow is going to be one of those days when we will all remember where we were when it occurred. Some of the other days I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing are:
November 1963 - JFK is shot - I was sitting in my first grade classroom and the teacher came in crying.
April 1968 - Martin Luther King shot - sitting on the floor in my living room in East Meadow NY with my...
CubeCraft →
:-) This seems like time spent wisely (well better than video games)
http://www.sidwell.edu/admissions/tuition.asp →
The Obama girls start school.
