A hole in the universe...

'They' found a hole in the universe, a place where there is apparently no matter; is that, technically a place or is it a non place? Would we be able to go to or into somewhere where there is nothing? Of course, by being able to go there we would then have supposedly changed that place/non-place forever; by bringing matter into a place without matter. What would the nature of existence be in an undefined something that has nothing that we are familiar with? 'They' find a gap in the universe and I can't help but wonder about it all again. What's beyond the undefined borders of our universe? Is there more nothing out there beyond the farthest star? All of this is so much bigger than you and I. Here I am, sitting and typing this on a planet that is spinning around on itself whilst hurtling through space in an orbit around the sun; just one star in a seemingly impossible number of other stars forming part of our galaxy which is really a relatively small place compared to the soup of galaxies that compose our universe. How do I compare to all of that? The funny thing is that though I probably don't even show up as a static blip on the radar of it all, yet I feel connected to the essence of it. I have a sense of a greater purpose. It makes me want to laugh out loud, this is why life can never be boring in this wicked cool world we share.

Pregnant vs. no excuse...

This is what happens when 'pregnant brain' meets 'artist brain':

Heather: So, it is raining in Ohio...must be because of the hurricane..
Ciro: Uh-huh...
Heather: Sandy's family lives there...I wonder if they're okay?
Ciro: Oh really? In Ohio?
Heather: Yeah...they even brought the spaceship back earlier....
Ciro: ? Oh...Why didn't 'they' just leave it parked outside Uranus...(thinks Heather is being funny so makes a weak attempt at being funny back)...
Heather: yes, because of the rain...
Ciro: (confused)...in ohio...never realised Sandy's family had a spaceship...
Heather: (laughing) No! The space shuttle...
Ciro: (laughing) yeah...I was quite surprised that Sandy's family has their own spaceship...

Good buddies and Burl the cool...

Ivo and Burl came over to visit Dylan the other day, Sandy tagged along to visit Heather...They play so well together lately...Burl is looking so alert and with it..He has got this cool look going about him...nice play time together...good job guys!

Father's day...

In Taiwan, celebrated on the 8th day of the 8th month...because 8 is ba in Chinese and baba means father...so...We went out and had the most enormous southern cobb salad I have seen in my life. It was pretty cool. Thanks guys fer spoiling me...heehee.

Above: Beautiful Heather...(sigh)

Yoga with Dylan...

I love this... Dylan is a natural yogi....He is often doing spontaneous yoga poses...downward dog seems to be a favorite at the moment...He did this before I started yoga so I reckon it is not form observation. When I do yoga and he hasn't gone to bed or is still asleep he likes to join in with me...without fail he has to join in...

Dylan's celebrity lookalikes...

My celebrity lookalikes?....John Kerry really?

Quote from 'All the names'...

"...,He could choose another record card and go in search of that person instead, Chance doesn't choose, it proposes, it was chance that brought him to the unknown woman, and only chance has any say in these matters, There's no shortage of strangers in the files, But he has no reason to choose one rather than another, one in particular, and not just one of many, It doesn't seem a very good rule in life to let yourself be guided by chance, Regardless of whether it's a good rule or not, whether it's convenient or not, it was chance that put that card in his hands, And what if that woman is the same one, If she is, then that was what chance offered, With no further consequences, when out of the interminable line of consequences that come marching ceaselessly towards us we can only ever distinguish the first, Does that mean something could still happen, Not just something, everything, I don't understand, It's only because we live so sunk in ourselves that we don't notice that what is actually happening to us leaves intact, at every moment, what might happen to us, Does that mean that what might happen is constantly being regenerated, It's not only being regenerated, it's multiplying, you just have to compare the events of two consecutive days, I never thought of it like that, These are things known only to the angst-ridden.' - All the Names by Jose Saramago. I'm reading this at the moment and loving every word of it...thank you Sandy for the loan...:)...

Stacking and packing craze....

D is going through a 'got to stack it' phase...absolutely everything gets put into a line or stacked into little towers... this is serious fun for the little guy. At times fun means 'unstacking' things, violently. So we prepared him a snack, D loves cream cheese or peanut butter on an assortment of crackers plus at times he rather fancies a hash brown but since we can never be too sure that he will eat anything at all we provide all his favorite delicacies on a plate for his little lordship to sample as he so pleases (have I mentioned that he is currently two years old??). Heather and I were speaking about something or other, could have been our up and coming vacation, thus we were distracted for a short time, we finally turned back to find that D had rearranged his plate onto the floor and walked off to find more things to stack and pack in his play room...:)

Above: D stacking Below: D 'unstacking'

Below: Snack in line, perhaps a protestation

Yoga and music...

So haven't blogged fer a while cause things are way too hectic at the moment...There's the baby, which is about 9 cm? I think...Then Heather and Dylan were sick with mega head colds for a week. Pregnant woman plus head cold not good. That was two weeks ago, last week things began to look up but work was hectic since the semester is winding down to an overdue end...lo and behold come Saturday and Dylan caught Oral herpes...Sh*te. Nothing we can do about it since it is viral...just keeping him comfortable and hoping fever doesn't occur. So I've been looking after my two beautiful patients and stressing, Heather will be off work tomorrow to look after D. At least Heather is on the up and up. I've been doing lots of yoga to keep me sane, once a day...and listening to some cool music...My current favourite 'listen to' is an indie band called the 'Silversun pickups', their album 'Carnavas' blows my mind...It's full of musical and lyrical genius that leaves me breathless most of the time. Innovative, unique and some much needed escapism.