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Daily 027: Tipping Thursday - Appreciating Details

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Beautiful gorgeous day. Floor is lava games and fort building. No school Friday reminder. Tip: find something outside to stare at and appreciate its beauty - spiderwebs, rust on metal signs. Be unique in studying something no one else has.

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0:00 Welcome to Arts and Ideas in the Air, under the tent, and around Baltimore, your daily
0:05 podcast of all the goings-on's in and around arts and ideas at Barry School.
0:09 Today was an absolutely beautiful, gorgeous day, and it was truly nice to
0:21 sit in the sunroom during a staff meeting and just look outside and see
0:25 how beautiful it was. We have, I mean, there's only two of us in the in the sunroom
0:35 and the rest were interacting via Discord, but you know, it was really nice.
0:42 So yeah, the day here was pretty calm. I believe there's some floors lava games
0:50 going on. There was some bug excitement that might actually show up in
0:58 JC on Monday. I'm not sure if I see Octo the spider anymore, so that's a question.
1:06 I do believe I saw Kevin or Tootsie the squirrel hanging around earlier today,
1:13 but I don't see them now. A little bit of a fort building around the fallen tree,
1:22 and some swing action, and some devices outside. Always loving the merging of
1:36 nature and technology, so that's cool. There was also some unfortunate brick
1:43 breaking which stopped immediately upon being informed that there was a rule
1:49 against brick breaking, so that's good. I haven't checked since, but they did say
1:54 they'd clean it up, so hopefully that's been cleaned up, otherwise I will be very
1:57 sad. And No School tomorrow on Friday, so anyone listening to this, No School on
2:06 Friday tomorrow. We will have a full week next week, so on Monday there's the
2:14 discussion of the history stuff that happened on Wednesday as usual. A school
2:20 meeting on Tuesday. The last age check-in, five to seven year olds, on Wednesday at
2:27 noon. And then another history topic, I do not know what it is. And then I guess on
2:36 Friday we'll have the article club on the surveillance capitalism or something.
2:46 Alrighty, yeah, so I think that's a good look forward. Your tip of the week
2:55 Thursday is if you find yourself an unexpectedly long time without, say, being
3:03 at school, and you're looking for something to do, what I always find very
3:10 interesting is to find some sort of feature outside to look at. Maybe it
3:18 could be a spiderweb, maybe it's a metal sign with a bit of rust. I just gotta
3:24 stare at it for a while and really appreciate the depth and texture of
3:27 whatever it is I'm looking at. Really awesome is when there's a spider web
3:32 attached to a metal rusting sign and you can just, that's like, that's like level
3:38 27 of deep in the zone, you know what I mean? So there you go. Go and find
3:45 something awesome to stare at for a while and just really appreciate its
3:49 beauty, particularly if it's something that most people would never appreciate.
3:53 You will be the only person to have ever studied that thing in such detail. You
3:58 will be unique in the entire universe for having done that. Just think about that.
4:03 Alright, you guys all have a good three-day weekend and really looking
4:07 forward to seeing you next week. Have a good one.