Einstein in 1926 told Heisenberg it was nonsense to found a theory on observable facts alone: 'In reality the very opposite happens. It is theory which decides what we can observe." We miss what happens and only observe what happens in theory. ..... Hmmmmmm.
In 1952, a composer named John Cage performed a musical piece that he wrote called 4'33" consisting of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of no musical instruments played, no sounds. On the pages of the piece is this word: Tacit.
tacit |ˈtasit| adjective
understood or implied without being stated
Listen (Silent) to the piece.......you can join the audience:
john cage's 4'33"
(Ob)serving silence, a poet wrote:
The Silence
by Wendell Berry
Though the air is full of singing
my head is loud
with the labor of words.
Though the season is rich
with fruit, my tongue
hungers for the sweet of speech.
Though the beech is golden
I cannot stand besides it
mute, but must say
"It is golden," while the leaves
stir and my hope is, and my aim.
A song whose lines
I cannot make or sing
sound men's silence
like a root. Let me say
and not mourn: the world
lives in the death of speech
and sings there.
It's still winter and it's rainy, drizzly in Asheville. My house is gray, without lights on. The small portable heater warms me. Haze comes in through the windows. I see and make observations, guesses about how things are, judgments. I sit in my interpretations and discover that maybe right, maybe wrong, maybe neither.
But it's time to make granola for a granola pie....................................because I still want to open a Granola Bar.
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