just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it. Just because something is available instantly to vision (*) does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness. Or, in slightly more general terms: access is not synonymous with learning. What turns access into learning is time and strategic patience (*).
via A lesson in strategic patience (*) by Nicholas Carr' (*).
In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be smiling. And so it will be as if all the stars were smiling, when you look at the sky at night.
The story behind the Star named in Jenny's Memory is here. It is located in the Constellation of Vela in the Southern Sky and she looks over us as we continue our adventures in life.
Jenny - Mutton Bird Island / Coffs Harbour (Sun 02 Jan 2005)
