Wisdom in SpaceNever express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr
The Swamp WytchThe Bald Cypress is a tree of mystery, melancholy, and ancestral knowledge. You cannot visit my beloved Okefenokee and not encounter these beings who live in a liminal state... not merely aerial, terrestrial or aquatic, but one of all.
#SwampSunday #Okefenokee
Mike Goodell, former Everglades Nat. Park Ranger, became lost in the Okefenokee in 1996. Found on Billy's Island deep in the swamp after 41 days. Locals never fully believed his story; tales of beings in the swamp stealing him away, or even abduction are still told. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee
A regional style, "Dog-Trot" homes were favored by pioneers of the Okefenokee Swamp. They feature an open breezeway that runs through the middle. A few are still in existence. Photo by Cosmos Mariner. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee
Swampers love a good "pig-pickin". These gatherings are a mixture of pot-luck, bluegrass music, & folktales. One of the last ones I attended with family was in 2009. My photos, including my Dad, & other old-timers who have left this side of the veil since then. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #FolkWitch
I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
-- Michel de Montaigne
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MicheldeMontaigne #Creativity #Knowledge #Originality
The raw materials for breakthrough technologies will come in unexpected forms -- the people, the ideas, and the objects will come dressed in other uses, other meanings, and other relationships. Untangling these existing resources from their current context and putting them together in new ways requires thinking by analogy. It means constantly asking how things are the same. It's easy to point out how things are different; we do it every day in order to decide where to focus our attention and energy. Who we talk to and who we do not, which articles we read and which we ignore -- these are difference-driven choices. And difference-driven choices are, by nature, defensive.
-- Andrew Hargadon (How Breakthroughs Happen)
Fascinating character from Frances Harper's "Okefinokee Album": Ben Yarborough, who was known not only as a "true swamper", Okefenokee guide, but also a Conjure Man. The story of him sending a conjure telegram is absolutely fascinating to me! #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Conjure
Cecile Hulse Matschat, a geographer & botanist, wrote about her time living in the Okefenokee Swamp in her seminal ethnography "Suwannee River: Strange Green Land" (published 1938). One figure she writes about she calls "Snake Woman". (1 of 4) #FolkloreThursday #Okefenokee #FolkWitch #WitchSky
The life of the creative man is lead, directed, and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
-- Saul Steinberg
