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One week back at work and I'm shattered! When I teach I seem to give so much (generally) and I end up exhausted. Every lesson is a performance, high state of awareness, constantly assessing what's going on and what to do/when to do it ... add to that a week where I've had to do the VAT returns for an organisation I belong to, offer to do the layout of the archae book so the illustrator has sizes to work to, and I have a map to do of my railway which will be printed by the council (the black india ink on the first good draft is drying ... I've smudged in places, so this week I MUST get some permanent drawing pens as my beloved Rotring pens don't have waterproof ink in them - the map will end up watercoloured you see).

Next week I have the layout to carry on with, the map to get finished if the draft is approved, and the accounts to prepare for a meeting on Saturday - the accounts should be easy enough to do this time round, I hope .. then it's the nervous period while the accounts are audited.

I've found time to do some art ... my blue and gold waves bracelet I'm chuffed with and have worn every day this week. Photographs don't do it justice. It's very textured and shiny and not at all symmetric though there's a balance in it.

Drawing hasn't been done much, though I did start and complete 'Dichotomy 1'.

I've finished reading 'What the Bleep do we know?' and watched the 'down the rabbit hole' version of the film as I've been working on another bracelet and also knitting a scarf. I've almost finished reading 'The Field' by Lynne Mctaggart - which is all about the unified field/zero point filed in quantum physics, and what the implications of the science therein is for us, and how it seems to help to explain some of the things that before this were unexplainable by science, poo-poo-ed by science generally, and only mystical explanations were available. Only 'crackpot' scientists involved themselves in such research (though things was a bit different in the early days of the Spiritualist movement when such august figures as Sir William Crookes investigated what was going on and became a believer), but now it seems mainstream scientists are talking the same language as the mystics always have ...

And of course the opposition of the majority of science to this is similar to the opposition that the church had for science when science and religion diverged and Descartes came up with the dualist notion of existence.

Interesting times ahead methinks ... but the reads are a good one, and I'm sensible enough to have a BIG sack of salt besides me while I'm reading ... but at last people are putting these ideas/theories into words that non-physicists/mathematicians like me can understand!

I'm also reading a book by Deepak Chopra called 'The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success', which oddly echoes what I've read in What the bleep and The Field ...

I love it when things come together!

The ink should've dried now, and my coffee is nearly finished, so the last bit of coloured ink to go on the map (to show the parts of the railway that will be open in the future) and then I can do what I can to scan it in and send it off for 'approval'. And if there's time before I have to go out and give a talk tonight I can do some flute practice, work some more on the layout of the archae book, and maybe even play my harp!