Behind!

I went to a wedding this past weekend, which was beautiful. Nothing got done really over the weekend in the way of writing or reading, but I have since travelled to Maine for a week of relaxation with family. I've gone to the library several times and several book stores in Maine over the last two days (ha!) and gotten loads of books, including The Giver, which a friend at the wedding recommended. I also read part of a book called The New Feminine Brain by Mona Lisa Schulz last night for a while. She's a neuropsychiatrist ( I think that's what she called herself) and a medical intuitive, who has collaborated by Christiane Northrup, author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom. Mona Lisa writes about how men's and women's brains are just different. From the hormones running through them, to the way the left and right brains operate. She argues that men's brains have less connectivity between the left and right hemispheres than women, and  women's brains (in general) are more intuitive (this is attributed to the right hemisphere). Interesting....Will look again at the book to flesh out what she's trying to say and be able to remember some examples to add some body to her argument....I still need to clarify in mind what she is trying to say...

I went to a presentation last night at Maine Media Workshops and College at the Rockport Opera House. There were two presenters---one an archival researcher, who clears permissions and finds images for documentaries that appear on channels like PBS. The other was a photographer professor, who examines the intersection of science and art in his photography. He's particularly interested in capturing the unseeable in his photography---the wormholes, the paradoxes, the other dimensions. He sees the artist and physicist as both trying to attempt to describe the unseeable....which makes sense to me. They just use different languages to do so...It was particularly inspiring to see someone who asked questions about everything, and explored the answers slowly and with observation and not speedily heading to Google to get the answer. I felt a kindred spirit.

How can I do this in my own life?