Real Time stream of information from around the web can be displayed on our screens these days.
What does it change in our way of thinking and being ?
We know almost instantaneously a lot of things but we don't have time to think about the information we get.
Only a rigorous discipline can allow us to get some real time feed for our brain, some digested article or book and take the time to think about it, to make our own opinion and decide to do something about it.
We have to find the balance between passive information consumption and uninformed action.
I like to know about almost everything but what I like more is to build things, imagine, create, make useful things available to everyone !
We shall not forget that we are made to be creative !
Friday, July 10, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Seagulls
The day we started this walk in Santa Cruz, the weather was perfect.
Blue sky and sunny beach were welcoming us in the mid-morning.
We walked freely along the coast, enjoying the sand below our feet, risking some toes in the icy-cold water of the Pacific ocean.
Around noon, our daughters were screaming for food so we found a big rock where we could stop for lunch. Everyone sat around the backpack full of sandwiches and fruits.
Eleanor and Eglantine picked a sandwich and started biting like hungry girls in a fast-food.
A few minutes later, coming suddenly from this blue-blue sky, a seagull plunged on Eleanor's sandwich, fetched it and flew away. Immediately followed by a second one that bit Eleanor's hand, ignoring the absence of sandwich.
The panic took us right here, our daughter's hand was bleeding as a third seagull attacked Eglantine's sandwiches. Scared as hell, two children screaming in pain, two parents trying to take care of the situation...
Shouting and waving as a daemon, I tried to scare the birds while my spouse tried to help and protect Eleanor and Eglantine. We were rapidly overwhelmed by the situation as the seagulls outnumbered us, joined by dozens of birds encircling us with no good intentions. It was time to run and to run fast !
Blue sky and sunny beach were welcoming us in the mid-morning.
We walked freely along the coast, enjoying the sand below our feet, risking some toes in the icy-cold water of the Pacific ocean.
Around noon, our daughters were screaming for food so we found a big rock where we could stop for lunch. Everyone sat around the backpack full of sandwiches and fruits.
Eleanor and Eglantine picked a sandwich and started biting like hungry girls in a fast-food.
A few minutes later, coming suddenly from this blue-blue sky, a seagull plunged on Eleanor's sandwich, fetched it and flew away. Immediately followed by a second one that bit Eleanor's hand, ignoring the absence of sandwich.
The panic took us right here, our daughter's hand was bleeding as a third seagull attacked Eglantine's sandwiches. Scared as hell, two children screaming in pain, two parents trying to take care of the situation...
Shouting and waving as a daemon, I tried to scare the birds while my spouse tried to help and protect Eleanor and Eglantine. We were rapidly overwhelmed by the situation as the seagulls outnumbered us, joined by dozens of birds encircling us with no good intentions. It was time to run and to run fast !
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