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.

Even the machinery of US military combat is portrayed non heroically. Instead of the classic images of the US Cavalry courageously sweeping down on the savages, or of decent American doughboys bravely clearing out nests of Nazis, bored technocrats, insulated by immense layers of technology, firebomb green valleys, slaughtering enemy warriors and defenseless women and babies while sipping coffee and casually fiddling with touch screens.

With loving kindness, with patience, with openness?

It will be as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the creditor, so with the debtor as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

It will be as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the creditor, so with the debtor as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the lender, so with the borrower as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the lender, so with the borrower as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

and spoke to them, saying, Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.

and spoke to them, saying, Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.

Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew and they shall pursue you until you perish.

Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew and they shall pursue you until you perish.

And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

There's carbon that's being bought with sugar, with coffee, with beef.

He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet

He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet

with pictures, with travel tips.

The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders

She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders

She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

We were experimenting with type, with illustration, with photos. And we had fun.

Experimented with my body, experimented with jewelry, experimented with all sorts of things.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love

Come with me, come with us!