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Sparks might well be a platform itself to ‘embed’ some photo functions.

There are also video editing programs that provide various transitions. The one I’m recalling vaguely had a ‘Ken Burns’ function.

Thank you for bringing attention to this area for improving my ‘tool box’.

I’ve spent some time wondering about platforms for slide presentations. I did have one, but they have gone out of business.

For now I’m happy just posting to Facebook with a small audience of friends and acquaintances.

I too work on that over/under thing.

It’s always good to hear about other practices.

One that particularly fascinates me is group decision based decision practice, but I’ve not had the opportunity to participate in a quick, short class, demonstration.

Well said.

[Douglas Tooley]

I believe this Korean Zen koan captures a good portion of the ‘gist’ world of your Haiku.

The clip is from the movie ‘Why has Bodhi Dharma Left for the East’.

By the way, the Haiku is superb, “The Sound of Clouds Flowing Through Time.”

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I too have considered the relation of the Transcendentalists and the Romantics but not deeply. With my tech perception filter Shelley, and the environmental context she wrote in, she is my favorite.

What is the name of the Wordsworth poem you quoted from?

I’ve heard the word ‘grok’, from a (Bradbury?) early science fiction novel. I think it merits further consideration.

I use the word ‘gist’ more in my own meta-thinking, thinking about my own thinking. I do believe I have a gist of things mental world map that is robust and with a large variety of sources.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gist

I’m of the opinion that getting rid of the obstructors is more important than creating a grand fully organized response.

Part of that though is supporting others efforts, networking and the like. I do look forward to seeing your work.

For what it’s worth as I recall my father kept some sort of defense industry relationship with the Pomona/Claremont colleges, for most of his career.

I don’t recall anything of the specifics, but I was born in Whittier. He was with Northrop, starting shortly after I was born, 1964. DARPA from 1958 to 1996 also working with the evolving public sector aerospace efforts of the area.

I look forward to hearing more about the wild church.

Meditation outdoors is a big part of my spiritual practice.

There is an individual here in Telluride who is doing something similar on a more organized basis.

I am reminded of the Edward Abbey quote:

‘Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.’

This reminds me of the Wendell Berry poem, ‘The Peace of Wild Things’.

Well, to continue from a glass half empty positive perspective, those of us who are ecologically minded will be fitter to survive.

Curiously enough I’ve just started a native plant effort in the community section of my resort workforce apartment complex community garden.

I completed a master gardener style/scale class on native plant stewardship in 2009 just as I was getting run out of Washington state – so no project.

I am certified as an urban tree stewardship in Seattle, 40 hours of class work plus a project.

That project was actually where I first started having issues. The project was creating a proposal for a 20 block tree planting at the Downtown/Seattle University edge of the then minority Central Area.

I would serve as Secretary on a Community Council board with the person who did the project. Richard Conlin would go on to a 16 year term on the Seattle City Council, three years as Council President.

Personally, I think that all we need for a bright future is to fail the people that have failed us.

That would be in politics, in business, and in science.