13: On Balance
1. What’s the difference between infinity and eternity?
2. “Spelling.” That’s what the first person I asked that question to at Floyd YogaJam Infinity this weekend answered.
3. Someone else said, “One is always and the other is forever.”
4. It was one dance party after another, starting with Noah Proudfoot and the Botanicals, who when I first saw them in the Yoga Jam program, I thought they were going to lead an herb workshop. – More HERE.
5. At Yoga Jam I met a woman with an oxygen tank who was hula hooping and juggling.
6. MC or emcee? Emcee is just the phonetic spelling of the already shortened MC, which means Master of Ceremonies, sort of like deejay is the phonetic spelling of DJ, which means disc jockey.
7. It’s raining plastic. Not only are trillions of pieces of plastic litter floating through the ocean, killing fish and other animals and people are swallowing an average of 5 grams of plastic every week, about the weight of a credit card, it’s raining plastic, scientists report. – More HERE.
8. The news is a burning building that I crane my neck to see. Every couple of hours I check to see how far it has spread.
9. I need a poem to hold my place in line.
10. A dream I had after last year’s Yoga Jam that I found again by searching the word “balance” on this blog: I was at an impromptu talent show at a festival scene. It was my turn to perform on stage. I had nothing planned to do, so I decided to balance a ball on my head. It was a large red foam rubber ball and I got it balanced so well that I decided to keep it on top of my head. As I went around the rest of the day and my life with the large red ball on my head, some people noticed it and others didn’t.
11. I find it amusing that focus rhymes with pocus and pocus makes no sense unless it’s coupled with hocus.
12. I just started wondering about the difference between symmetry and balance. I looked it up and found this: Symmetry is an easy way to achieve balance. Elements and compositions that are the same on both sides almost always look balanced. … This is essentially wrong as balance is the principle and symmetry is one way of achieving it. Balance without symmetry is known as asymmetrical balance.
13. I made this video in Paris last year. It’s call “More Door” and I love it!
_____________Thirteen Thursday
September 4th, 2019 9:58 am
Eternity is timeless (no beginning or ending)
Infinity had a beginning (a point in space or time that is or seems infinitely distant)
September 4th, 2019 10:21 am
Another answer that day was that eternity is temporal, having to do with time and distance and that infinity is spacial. Here’s a good explanation I found: eternity is related to state of being timesless, whereas infinity is related to anything which cannot be counted or measured. Eternity relates to “time” and infinity relates to “many dimensions” (the infinite dimensions in the verse of time, for example).
The word “eternity”, specifically implies to the state of being timeless. Everything that has no time bound is said to be eternal. The states of time, present, past and future, our feelings- love, hate, etc, behaviors- honesty, integrity, the existence of our soul, the existence of this universe; everything is eternal, because well, we can’t really say what started from where and what will end where. Eternity is related to time and to the concept of timelessness or forever depending upon which angle do we consider it from. The symbol of “eternity” is a snake biting its own tail forming a ring, or we can also say that it’s a circle because we can’t say the starting or the ending point, also called “ouroboros”.
The word “infinity” on the other hand, indicates to the units which are immeasurable. Distance, mass, numbers in a number line, stars in the galaxy, vastness of the multiverse, all are infinite. The concept of infinity is more commonly used in mathematics and physics in the field of cosmology, to indicate the never ending numbers and the hugeness of everything, ranging from the smallest atom to the largest star. The symblol of “infinity”, which is very common, is like a horizontal ‘8.
September 4th, 2019 11:36 am
…So we don’t look on what is seen,
but on what is unseen,
since what is seen is temporary,
but what is unseen is eternal.
September 4th, 2019 12:42 pm
The video is wild!
September 4th, 2019 2:45 pm
Good one, Stuart. Sherry, the video was taken in a lounge at the Klimt immersion art show in Paris! I was mesmerized by it!
September 5th, 2019 12:40 am
5-fantastic blessed to be over storm
September 5th, 2019 7:14 am
love the video. spoooky but you can’t look away from it.
September 5th, 2019 9:04 am
Hocus pocus
The Room needs focus
My head would spin
just walking in
Happy Thursday, CR!
September 6th, 2019 5:03 pm
“To infinity and beyond,” said Buzz Lightyear. That’s what comes to my mind. I think of eternity as being all of infinity and beyond. The ponderance of words, I easily get lost in it.