Good book

I´m reading a rather interesting book (so far), called "Science and Poetry". A critical essay dealing with how science has come to be such an imperative (also imperialistic) matter in our society and how the historical context have come to tie science so closely to ideology. Fascinating stuff (guilty geeky giggle)!

But seriously, is an interesting critique, avoiding being obscure, and avoiding a polar point of view over the subject. She claims that arts should be recognized as legitimate and necesary means of knowing and exploring our reality and our notions of it.

Here is an extract that was strikingly interesting. A good comment on how easy is to accept an stablished discourse or way of being (in this case, science), but also aplicable to those who prefer the comfort of what is familiar and known before facing their own fears:

"... simplicity is one aim of explanation (...) but explanations must be complex enough to do the particular work that they are there for, to answer the questions that are actually arising. There are always many alternative ways of simplifying things and we have to choose between them. The kind of parsimony that is too mean to deal with the points that really need explaining is not economy but futile miserliness. For any particular problem, we need a solution that sorts out the particular complications that puzzle us, not one that ignores them because they are untidy" (Midgley, 2001, p. 8)

Best summer ever!

Summer is gone now but has left behind thousands of wonderful memories:

*Parents arrived on a sunny and windy day
*Wine in our garden in Bergen
*Trip to Gamle Bergen and Bryggen
*Mother gazing as a child when landing in Ålesund
*Dad smiling and waving at the boats from the Hurtigruten
*Linn waiting with flowers for all of us in Sandnessjoen
*Whole family gathered for the first time in a small, nearly deserted island; northern Norway
*Midnight sun

*Talking until 3 am, with light outside all night
*Bird chicks recently hatched
*Linn laughing all day long

*Father started drawing again, after 10 years
*Dad and me helped Einar to build a huge terrace
*Long boat trips
*Sun bathing at 8 pm
*Mom stealing berries
*Fishing
*Car trip of +1000 kms down to Bergen
*Rivers and salmon jumping on a waterfall
*Trondheim
*Cathedral
*Dad saw a real reindeer
*Magnificent scenery at Dovre and Stryn
*Glacier
*Parents meeting my Grandparents in law

*Walks at night

Its impossible to write everything. I wanted to show my family how happy I am now, and wanted for them to see it with their own eyes. They have returned now to Costa Rica but Im sure that they now feel that I am making my own family here and that this is my home now. Even though that is hard at the same time, I know that they are happy with the path Ive chosen.

And now, its back to work and regular life. A company in Oslo has shown interest in my work, so Im flying next monday to have a chat with them. They have lots of interesting projects and they sound like very easy going people. There are a couple of projects that might come here in Bergen, one of them can make it for a theatrical release... that possibility is very exciting.
Im on the hunt for an office cause I feel now its time to expand a bit. Things have been going well enough and a proper space can only benefit my work.
Want to keep on trying to put a band or a music project together. Phiew! Lots of things I want to do... but I would be rather worried if all of the sudden I wouldnt have all those things in mind. I feel more alive, having projects and ideas going on... lets see how everything unwraps.