School of Curiosity

School of Curiosity

School of Curiosity

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It’s Friday, it must be fried eggs?

June 14, 2013

Something to cheer up your Friday…

“For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It’s quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it isn’t quite that simple. The fried egg isn’t properly a fried egg until it’s been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn’t do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday. You can also fry eggs on a Thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. It’s all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while.”
Have a curious day.

The Bard of Barnsley @IMcMillan

June 13, 2013

British poet Ian McMillan – aka The Bard of Barnsley – tweets every morning, mostly about his early morning stroll @IMcMillan. It’s amazing what you can say in just 144 characters. Things like…..

“Pull another morning from your almost endless box of mornings. Almost endless, but not quite. Don’t think about that. Just take the morning”.

A poem in 144 characters. Under the old UK system of weights and measures 144 was a ‘gross’. So that would be a gross poem, but apparently that’s not a complement in the US.

Have a curious day.

 

Freedom

June 12, 2013

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. ~ Sartre

Have a curious day.

 

 

Knock down your creative blocks

June 11, 2013

Here are Debbie Millman’s 10 easy steps for overcoming your creative blocks.

I’d also add three tips given to us by writer Sandra Deeble – have a hot bath in the middle of the afternoon, watch a black & white movie and make a chocolate cake.

Have a curious day.

 

A good life is hard to find

June 10, 2013

 

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more.

The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.

Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading – that is a good life.

A day that closely resembles every other day of the past ten or twenty years does not suggest itself as a good one.

But who would not call Pasteur’s life a good one, or Thomas Mann’s?

 

Have a curious day.

 

From The Writng Life by Annie Dillard.

Start checking the flights!

June 7, 2013

The provisional dates for The School of Curiosity ‘End of Summer School’ have been agreed as 18th, 19th, 20th October 2013. The event will take place in the stunning gardens of The Citadelle, Villefranche-sur-Mer, overlooking one of the most beautiful bays in Europe.

We hope to confirm the dates next Friday (14th June), so for now, just check the availability of flights….nearest airport Nice Cote d’Azure.

Have a curious day.

The things found in books

June 7, 2013

Books are great anyway, but especially great when you find something unexpected, like this photo found in a copy of Three Men in a Boat.

To look at more things found in books take a look at this little collection http://bit.ly/sbAhy8 

Have a curious day.

 

No further words are necessary

March 21, 2013

 

Take a look at the image. No further words are necessary.

Have a curious day.

On eternity

March 14, 2013

High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock.
It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide.
Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak.
When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.
Hendrik van Loon, a Dutch-American historian and journalist (1882-1944), The Story of Mankind
In the whole history of time, we are but a single speck. Enjoy your fleeting moment in the sun.
Have a curious day.

Textual relationships

March 1, 2013

“The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone”. Alan De Botton.

Do your love-life a favour…leave the phone at home occassionally. Remember that eccentric thing you used to do….talking to each other?

Have a curious day.

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