Just because I've added a few posts about silence lately, here's something I wrote on another blog in 2010— At Twitter, Michelle James points the way to Emerson RT @swichman: "Real action is in silent moments." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Tue Jul 06 02:27:…
A doctor, Rafael Campo [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2014/01/doctorpoet-rafael-campo-uses-the-stethoscope-to-explore-rhythms-of-poetry.html] , and three of his students [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2014/01/three-medical-students-on-why-poetry-nurtures-a-part-of-the-soul.html] discuss the importance of poetry to their work. I'm taken by the doctor's words >…
The concluding stanzas of What the Heart Cannot Forget [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2013/11/25] by Joyce Sutphen. In a decidedly unpoetic way, the image reminds me of the way my body feels when someone helps me exercise long unused muscles. > And the skin remembers…
Fast Company reports on the winners of this year's Dyson Award. This is a pretty impressive device, offering a 20-degree improvement in range of motion. I'm puzzled that the target audience seems to be hospitals. I'd do the therapy if a device like this…
> Just when you thought your smartphone was pluripotent....now you can control cyborg cockroaches http://t.co/RHiCUp3BaT no thanks! — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 9, 2013 [https://twitter.com/EricTopol/statuses/387793122031198209] I [first heard about stuff like this in August 2012](http://mikeschultz.ghost.io/backyard-brains-and-ot/)but I…
The Tampa Bay Times reports the [story of The Rolling Dance Chair](http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/from-the-mind-of-a-dancer-a-new-kind-of-wheelchair/2143164). This puts me in mind of [You Don't Need Feet to Dance](http://mikeschultz.ghost.io/resilience/)…
> #DGovQt [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DGovQt&src=hash]: "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." Vincent Van Gogh — Disability.gov (@Disabilitygov) March 31, 2012 [https://twitter.com/Disabilitygov/statuses/186064094158262272]…
I've been working with rye flour lately (with good results), but today I went back to basics and baked my favorite bread, Craig Claiborn's challah, for a friend. Looks like I came up with one of my best looking loaves ever.…