online: 6 october 2004
modified: 6 october 2004

5 october 2004 turning points


17:50 Rain in sunshine as I walked across the dam to pond 3. Then a rainbow above the trees. When I reached Parliament Hill this almost illusory phenomenon seemed to touch ground this side of Highgate Church and at a point somewhere near St Pancras. What a huge arc, I guess it's about 3 kilometres in diameter.

And now, sitting by the football pitch in the last moments of sunset, I feel this is a turning point - having this afternoon completed a written and videod alternative to visiting Korea in person.

I feel inspired to continue the retrospective/prospective work that this request provoked - reviving past works and giving them a second chance... Animating my abundant archives!

Yes. Let that be the way now (in my 78th year which begins in 2 days)...

rain: I must stop...



18:25 At the station: two girls (one about 8 and the other about 4) are circling a cylindrical pillar. 8 (with her longer arm) goes twice as fast as 4. And they laugh as they discover in these semi-imposed movements, the dynamics of this: they both have the same angular velocity though their running speeds differ by 2:1.

And now they rotate in opposite directions and 4 passes beneath the arm of 8... to much laughter... Then 4 continues to run round on her own, laughing, after 8 has tired of it!




(these pages are designed to be read with the window set to two-thirds of the screen width)

what's new

homepage

digital diary archive

daffodil email newsletter

© 2002, 2003, 2004 john chris jones

You may transmit this text to anyone for any non-commercial purpose if you include the copyright line and this notice and if you respect the copyright of quotations.

If you wish to reproduce any of this text commercially please send a copyright permission request to jcj at publicwriting.net