Super long day of meeting after meeting. Call after call. Email after email. With that and all the rest… I’m super-stressed.
When I can, I try to make some meetings happen outside. Walk while conversing. That way I get to see things like this:
It helps*.
Time for some serious relaxation now…
-cvj
(*Spotted in a walking meeting today near the Exposition Park Rose Garden, which is a natural extention of our campus.)
Cannas…abloom in December! California must be paradise!
Beauty in the petals of the flower! I miss the days when I saw beautiful sunshine all round the year. I guess the beauty in search for subjective truth compensates for sunshine and beautiful flowers I used to see all around the year.
Beauty in the form of flowers near physicists is hard to find: there exists a point near the U of Texas HEP lab which is not concrete and has rather nice blue flowers… oh how can they change your day when your office is in a basement.
Clifford, this is just gorgeous! Thanks so much 🙂 Yesterday, we’ve had 15 cm snow and -11 C. I miss California! Best,
B.
Maybe. When I lived in places that got seriously cold, I would put on a lovely heavy coat and go for a walk to think, just the same. I’d be less likely to convince my colleagues to meet with me outside, I imagine, but my outside go-for-walks meetings are usually wiith my young students. So perhaps they’d learn that to get the best out of me sometimes they have to walk outside. My current students have learned this. I suspect they’d have learned it in the midwest or elsewhere too…. and invested in the appropriate outdoor equipment. Or gone to be someone else’s student.
-cvj
Clifford,
I think its a great thing that you can have a meeting outside. If you live in the midwest people freeze and so does their imagination.