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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I've had no memorable dreams as of late, this will change, no sooner does one record a dream than a new one fills it place.
This dream I've had a few times in the past 3 or 4 years. I am driving to Alaska, I am in Alaska. It is amazing - the drive, the scenery; there is something here that is pulling my soul, the ache for youth, it's so close I wonder why I've never been and my heart is full of wonder. And I am rounding the horn, or the big knobbly bit that protrudes into the ocean, the Alaska of maps, small, compact, I can drive around it. I can see the ocean; the mountains, the lights of some city. . it is dusk or late evening, warm, late summer - it is always dusk or late evening, always late summer, there is music on the radio, nothing identifiable but it follows my mood like the road, a border crossing that will take me back into Canada, along some sea-inlet wherein dive killer whales. I can drive across it, and across the Northwest Territories, returning through the center of Saskatchewan, a long road with no cars, large hills and forests on either side, leaves turning, running alongside a narrow lake. I never knew this existed.
This dream I have had several times, awaking from it with a sense of deja-vu; I have never been to Alaska, I have checked maps (although I know better) for that road down the center of Saskatchewan so convincing were these dreams, this is entirely an imaginary landscape, these routes I have not travelled, but I wonder why, in my dream, they are Alaska, Saskatchewan, how the landscape came to be so compact, and why I have had it.
Left Handed Seashells
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Seashells, like people, exhibit right and left symmetries. (In people this is obvious as right and left handedness).
Before the great Permian extinction 90% of Nautalis fossils were "left handed". Now 90% of seashells exhibit a "right handed" symmetry, certain shells with a left based symmetry are highly prized by collectors. Why did this change? And what survival value, if any, does this provide?
Curious and Curioser
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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An interesting link to experiment with today - best done before you fall asleep; turn off the lights and watch the screen create your dream. . .
http://www.solaas.com.ar/dreamlines/
Art Ideas
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Being something of a closeted artist myself I thought I'd share some of my sources of inspiration. No Raphael, Van Goghs or Picasso's here, rather the kind of Ordinary art we all can afford. 3 Links today - in no particular order: http://www.thriftstoreart.com/, http://www.museumofbadart.org/ and finally this: The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly. Of course there's lots more, but this is only the "link of the day" and I don't want to spoil you.
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