Nerve Ending Variances

I think it’s been a while since I’ve traveled a little bit off the rails with my thoughts of the week. I figured I’d treat you once again to the strange and twisted but normally hidden landscape of my thinking brain. Wishing to keep comments to a minimum, I thought I’d also let you see the results of a Frank Gehry architectural design called the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. I am just making a point that I am not the only twisted thing out there. And when it comes down to it, the building looks awesomely cool. Maybe my brain does too.

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas. Designed by Frank Gehry

I+Sum(C+W)=R

The project began in 2018 with the 5th Graders at the Junior High School in Rye, New Hampshire.

The launch was celebrated by the now grown-up 6th Graders and the crew of The SSV Corwith Cramer on October 25, 2020.

462 days later, the project goal is fulfilled in Smola (a small island) in Norway – by a sixth-grader and his class.

This project, a kind of "message in a bottle", consists of a six-foot hand-made sailboat that traveled over 7,000 miles to its surprise destination.  

Information about this educational and inspiring project can be found at Rye Riptides | Rye Junior High School.  It’s a fascinating story worth the time of exploration.

READY. SET. RED 22. RED 22. Hut. Hut.

That title is called a ‘football cadence'.

I’ve read that 2022 is the very first time that Valentine’s Day can be called ‘post-game day’ for the Super Bowl.

This is just too confusing. Just how does one reconcile the Super Bowl with the traditional day which speaks of love? Well, that cadence speaks to it, I suppose.

I think there is less confusion here in Ohio. Yes, the Cincinnati Bengals are playing Rams today. Those of you in Minnesota can probably relate to what is going on here.

Find Your Tree

What kind of a Minnesota-born-and-bread guy breaks both ends of a snowbrush while cleaning off his car?

The half-inch plus coating of ice that had entombed my vehicle was the problem and I just did what I've always done. I turned on the ignition and while letting the car warm up, I started brushing the 3 inches of snow off the car so that I could get to the serious issue of removing ice.

As evidenced by the brush breaking off the pole, the snow was not fluffy and light. It was full of frozen water as well. That's OK. I just used my glove-covered hands and did it the old-fashioned way. 

"Good enough", I thought as I began to work on the ice. The plastic scraper on the other side of the snow removing tool was no less successful when attempts were made to remove the hard-as-diamond encrustation. I heard the now-familiar snap indicating the loss of another feature of my decades-old winter staple.

Cold and a little frustrated, I remembered an article I read this week from "A Learning a Day". 

You can read this anecdote by clicking here. It will take you less than a minute.

Finding a place to leave our troubles behind is good advice for all of us.

Come to me all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matt 11:28