Author: leh

Our Mothers As We Never Saw Them, P.S.

Here is (a scan of) the original slide I discovered many years ago — I think it was among a latent collection Janet unearthed.  From this original, I scanned it, then cropped out a very small chunk for the photo previously posted, as you can see.   (Hey, would that be Jean on the other horse?)
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By the way, you can toggle between both photos by clicking on this one to enlarge its view, then using your back-and-forth keys (i.e., your arrow keys or the arrow icons).

Our Mothers As We Never Saw Them

This week, in a New York Times piece entitled “Our Mothers As We Never Saw Them“, Edan Lepucki talks about her mother and invites other women to share pictures of their mothers before they were mothers. 

I have not (yet, anyway) coordinated this with daughter Ivi, but inspired by that piece, I am showing here a 1963 image (photographer unknown) of Kim, fording the Minam River in the Blue Mountains with her horse.
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Math and Musk

Elon-Musk_TEDMath has long been one of Nik’s favorite subjects.  Fascinated by mathematical puzzles since a young child, math of course has figured in his computer programming as well as game play and design.  When we get together, we might relax with a viewing of TV programs such as the BBC’s “Story of Maths” series.  And a recent gift he presented me was Mario Livio’s The Golden Ratio.

Yesterday, Quartz published a piece on how basic math is the thing that gives Elon Musk and his companies a competitive edge and leads to his extraordinatory innovation and breakthroughs with SpaceX, Tesla and more.

rDay Seven-Hundred-Seventy-Six

A summer-like day, so a stroll around downtown is in order to document the banal sights.  Stopped for a moment to rest at Reynolds Park, the City’s smallest at .01 acre, then returned home, mostly zigzagging through alleys.