One of the ways to avoid one day being the same as the day before is to become curious about something. I sometimes get horribly curious about difficult subjects to investigate and then go on reading jags to find all I can on a subject. Other times my curiosity is over simple things and easily researched, like the "top ten most popular YouTube posts" for instance. Most are music related, few are political. And some seriously simple things, like why is it called "German chocolate cake"?
(Named after an American with his secret chocolate recipe: Sam German!).
I am into Africa at the moment and the Middle East (gee, I wonder why?) and read everything I can find on the subject. Syria, for instance will become a huge problem because it was artificially carved out as a country and has over 50 different, conflicting interests. Much the same reason that Yugoslavia never made it, without the iron fist of Tito, that country fell apart. But I am curious. Do you continue to pay rent while at war? How do they manage to eat when the stores are closed? It is winter there now, they must be cold. Sometimes I have just simple questions. I wonder if it is worrisome that Alqueda is feeding these people?
I wonder whether I will get my Social Security Check next month? Who would I blame? What good would that do? So then I get curious about the National Debt and that is so very complicated!!
It is easier to be curious about outer space and I love the Hubble Telescope! I can watch those pictures for a long time. If we are made from stardust, I wonder which star? Which direction? and, of course, why here? Why me?
It is easier to be curious about really good bread and I realize that there is an amount of science there. And a lot of art! Most American bread is so bland and cake-like compared to the average European bread. I wonder why?
And, this is really crazy: A friend of mine is a wild land fire fighter. Last season he worked in Colorado, Oregon and California. Now he is on unemployment and like a lot of people is taking advantage of it and not looking for work! He will receive his unemployment money in Oregon but he can file for it in any of the three States in which he worked. Oregon would pay him $250 a week, Colorado $200. a week and California will pay him $500 a week!!!! It is all Federal money, from taxpayers, the worker's do not pay but a token into this fund. Why does California pay so much?
I wonder whether the average Congressman even knows this? I sometimes have problems tracking down where I spent a hundred bucks! How do you follow many trillions of dollars?
I need some Barbed Wire for a little "arty" commission I am doing, not much, less than 200 feet. It is sold in spools of a fifth mile long!, about 1,300 feet. I wonder how this came to be? and the three different stores in my little city that carry it, there are three different prices: $91, $89 and $54. I wonder if the expensive stores ever sell any? I was curious whether I could find any on Craigslist and found a full spool for just $30. I made money from my curiosity!
Children are absolutely curious about everything and my dog is too. I think there is a secret there, some connection to youth and exuberance, an excitement to get up in the morning because there are discoveries to be made, things to investigate!
It is not all research, some curiosity is satisfied by just doing things differently. Artists do this, have it in their nature to wonder: What if I do it this way? and that same kind of wonder is what makes a scientist. No fear in experimenting. You always learn somethings, even if it is 10,000 ways not to do something!
(Named after an American with his secret chocolate recipe: Sam German!).
I am into Africa at the moment and the Middle East (gee, I wonder why?) and read everything I can find on the subject. Syria, for instance will become a huge problem because it was artificially carved out as a country and has over 50 different, conflicting interests. Much the same reason that Yugoslavia never made it, without the iron fist of Tito, that country fell apart. But I am curious. Do you continue to pay rent while at war? How do they manage to eat when the stores are closed? It is winter there now, they must be cold. Sometimes I have just simple questions. I wonder if it is worrisome that Alqueda is feeding these people?
I wonder whether I will get my Social Security Check next month? Who would I blame? What good would that do? So then I get curious about the National Debt and that is so very complicated!!
It is easier to be curious about outer space and I love the Hubble Telescope! I can watch those pictures for a long time. If we are made from stardust, I wonder which star? Which direction? and, of course, why here? Why me?
It is easier to be curious about really good bread and I realize that there is an amount of science there. And a lot of art! Most American bread is so bland and cake-like compared to the average European bread. I wonder why?
And, this is really crazy: A friend of mine is a wild land fire fighter. Last season he worked in Colorado, Oregon and California. Now he is on unemployment and like a lot of people is taking advantage of it and not looking for work! He will receive his unemployment money in Oregon but he can file for it in any of the three States in which he worked. Oregon would pay him $250 a week, Colorado $200. a week and California will pay him $500 a week!!!! It is all Federal money, from taxpayers, the worker's do not pay but a token into this fund. Why does California pay so much?
I wonder whether the average Congressman even knows this? I sometimes have problems tracking down where I spent a hundred bucks! How do you follow many trillions of dollars?
I need some Barbed Wire for a little "arty" commission I am doing, not much, less than 200 feet. It is sold in spools of a fifth mile long!, about 1,300 feet. I wonder how this came to be? and the three different stores in my little city that carry it, there are three different prices: $91, $89 and $54. I wonder if the expensive stores ever sell any? I was curious whether I could find any on Craigslist and found a full spool for just $30. I made money from my curiosity!
Children are absolutely curious about everything and my dog is too. I think there is a secret there, some connection to youth and exuberance, an excitement to get up in the morning because there are discoveries to be made, things to investigate!
It is not all research, some curiosity is satisfied by just doing things differently. Artists do this, have it in their nature to wonder: What if I do it this way? and that same kind of wonder is what makes a scientist. No fear in experimenting. You always learn somethings, even if it is 10,000 ways not to do something!
