Chrysanthemum Disbud. #flowers #photography

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.” Gall’s Law, from The Systems Bible (John Gall, 2002)

Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Garden, Lavender Bay, Kirribilli.

Today’s mood music - Massive Attack - Teardrop.

Today’s mood music: Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

Today’s mood music: Beastie Boys - An Open Letter To NYC

Banksia. #flowers

“Curiosity is a feedback loop. The more you learn, the more you can inform and target your actions.” …. Rands

It’s that kind of day.

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion”. ….. Bell Hooks.

Today’s mood music: White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane.

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

~ Buddha

It’s going to be a visceral week in America. Get out to vote, be civil and stay strong.

“One of the most remarkable features of the bureaucratic system of authority is the shrinking probability that the moral oddity of one’s actions will ever be discovered, and once discovered made into a painful moral dilemma.”

Zygmunt Bauman, 1989.

We live in a time of such confusion and rancor

“We live in a time of such confusion and rancour, with a culture that puts a premium on things that don’t last: money, fame, status, likes. We chase the approval of strangers on our phones. We build all manner of walls and fences around ourselves, and then we wonder why we feel so alone. We don’t trust each other as much because we don’t take the time to know each other. And in that space between us, politicians and algorithms teach us to caricature each other and troll each other and fear each other.”

Barack Obama, former President of the United States