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Spiegelungen

Senioren um die Welt

Eine chinesische Weisheit besagt: “Nur in einem ruhigen Teich spiegelt sich das Licht der Sterne”. Erst wenn es ganz still in der Natur ist, wenn kein Wind vorherrscht, keine Menschen oder Tiere im See schwimmen, die Geräusche verstummen, dann entstehen besondere Spiegelbilder. Dann wird die Natur magisch und zeigt ihre Schönheit auf eine einzigartige Art und Weise. “Spiegelbilder sind die sichtbare Umsetzung des Gleichgewichts der Natur”, heißt es.


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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” O último dia do tempo
não é o último dia de tudo.
Fica sempre uma franja de vida
onde se sentam dois homens.
Um homem e seu contrário,
uma mulher e seu pé,
Um corpo e sua memória,
um olho e seu brilho,
uma voz e seu eco,
e quem sabe até se Deus…”

Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Passagem de ano

ANDRADE, Carlos Drummond de. A Rosa do Povo. Editora: Circulo do Livro. São Paulo, 1945

Marii Freire

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Santarém, Pá 2 de abril de 2023

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Urban mining

Darcy Hitchcock

The term brings to mind pit mines in the middle of a city. But that’s not what it means. It refers to reusing materials within the city, much of it from buildings.

Simply put, urban mining is the process of recovering and reusing a city’s materials, which may include anything from buildings and infrastructure to discarded products. Once their functional lifetimes come to an end — buildings fall into disrepair, cars break down, phones become unusable — the materials of these objects become available for reuse.

Demolition work on former Qinetiq site – 10 February by Philip Halling is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0

We already collect old cars and you can recycle your old phones. But about half the waste stream comes from buildings, construction and demolition waste (C&D.)

Buildings are the largest urban mine compared to other anthropogenic stocks, accounting for more than 50 per cent of all extracted…

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Repost of Day 56/67: Five Month GED, More Math Language Learning, and Libraries for Continuous Learning: Project Do Better — Context, Critical Thinking, Continuous Learning: Project Do Better

We keep seeing the need to translate problems into mathematical terms, or into the language of mathematics, in order to solve those problems.         Libraries and librarians can help us translate mathematical, scientific, and social problems into terms that can facilitate problem-solving, if we fund our libraries properly.  How would you solve part […] Day […]

Repost of Day 56/67: Five Month GED, More Math Language Learning, and Libraries for Continuous Learning: Project Do Better — Context, Critical Thinking, Continuous Learning: Project Do Better

♫ How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) ♫ — Filosofa’s Word

I last played this one in December 2020, and when I did, both Clive and David noted the version by Junior Walker and the All Stars … a version I was unfamiliar with, but when I listened to it, found it to be pretty darned good!  So, this time I am offering both the Marvin […]

♫ How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) ♫ — Filosofa’s Word