Fiddling at the Fire

And so here is what I came up with. I start fiddling with it.

Of course, he never built it, because he was always fiddling with new plans, but when it did get built, of course, in the 1940s, everything changed.

Finally, my plea to you is to allow yourselves, and your children, and anyone you know, to kind of fiddle with stuff, because it's by fiddling with things that you, you know, you complement your other learning. It's not a replacement, it's just part of learning that's important.

Why are those numbers so finely tuned to allow stars to shine and planets to form, when we recognize that if you fiddle with those numbers if I had 20 dials up here and I let you come up and fiddle with those numbers, almost any fiddling makes the universe disappear.

Natalie MacMaster and her musical partner Donnell Leahy play several tunes from the Cape Breton tradition a sprightly, soulful style of folk fiddling. It's an inspired collaboration that will have you clapping along.

Many of you might be familiar with Taz, the cartoon character, the one that spins around and around and around.

You can play around with it.

She's now running around with her kids.

So we started playing around with this.

It's dangerous to fool around with electricity.

Artists too love to play around with symmetry.

And played around with this a little bit.

It's just so much fun playing around with too.

They look like the stuff we walk around with.

With cups from a flowing stream being passed around,

With cups from a flowing stream being passed around,

served around with a cup, from a clear fountain,

with a rope of palm fibre around her neck.

served around with a cup, from a clear fountain,

with a rope of palm fibre around her neck.

And around and around and around it goes.

When I was awake, with the camera around my neck.

We grew up interacting with the physical objects around us.

Annual electricity consumption associated with tourism costs around 500 million.

And I put the rope around and around and around and around and around till I had no more rope.

He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.

He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.

We need stories that replace that linear narrative of endless growth with circular narratives that remind us that what goes around comes around.

With so many people around he naturally became a bit nervous.

Now, let's imagine those plates agitated with community actions around food.

The area around the melting ice cream was crawling with ants.

What is wrong with the disbelievers who roam around you (Muhammad),

What is wrong with the disbelievers who roam around you (Muhammad),

What goes around comes around.

He went around once, he went around twice, he went around thrice.

You might argue that the story, the history of civilizations, has been civilizations gathered around seas with the first ones around the Mediterranean, the more recent ones in the ascendents of Western power around the Atlantic.

So they do it with this active tail as they swing around.

They would walk around. They would play with their skirts and pants.

I was going around with this big sign on my forehead LOSER.

And also starting to play around with the idea of alternative currencies.

So I quickly went to work with a great team around me.

And I've collaborated with so many incredible, inspirational musicians around the world.

The field research that we're doing around the world with indigenous peoples.

They came around a corner faced with a row of machine guns.