Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n
The temperature has stayed above freezing so we’re having a significant rain event, but little snow.\u00a0 I found a snow removal guy yesterday.\u00a0 Prices varied wildly from $25 a time to $50.\u00a0 All the same snow.\u00a0 Not sure what the deal is.\u00a0 We went with $25.<\/p>\n
The Medtronic event went by rapidly with only one hour available for folks to mill around and look.\u00a0 As often happens, though, we docents had the same hour when the guests arrived, had cocktails and mingled.\u00a0 As with any group, they checked in with each other, took the temperature of the room and few wandered.\u00a0 With the exception of CEO Bill Hawkins who remembered the singularity of the T’ang Dynasty blue horse ming ch’i (spirit object).\u00a0\u00a0 We discussed it and the meaning of tomb objects in general.\u00a0 Other than a brief conversation about Ming dynasty blue and white ceramics, that was my evening.<\/p>\n
On the way in I started a fascinating new lecture series from the Teaching Company called Big History<\/a>.\u00a0 This takes history’s starting point as the big bang and moves in increments from there:\u00a0 birth of suns, creation of elements, creation of earth and the solar system, the origin of life, humans, agriculture, the modern revolution.\u00a0 The guy who’s teaching this course happens to be the guy who conceived of Big History as a discipline, basing it, as I suspected on Braudel’s notion of the longue duree, seeing history from longer and longer durations of time.<\/p>\n Tomorrow and Wednesday will consist largely of interviews at the Sierra Club.\u00a0 We’re hiring a policy staff person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Thanksgiving Moon The temperature has stayed above freezing so we’re having a significant rain event, but little snow.\u00a0 I found a snow removal guy yesterday.\u00a0 Prices varied wildly from $25 a time to $50.\u00a0 All the same snow.\u00a0 Not sure what the deal is.\u00a0 We went with $25. The Medtronic event went by … Continue reading Big History<\/span>