harvard museum

harvard museum of natural history. go there. we went there yesterday, and saw the incredible glass flowers. what a nice place. kinda "old school", low-key museum, lots of taxidermy, animals in big cases, yellowing labels, but fun for all. it was nice to just LOOK at stuff, and not need to be so interactive.

vacation begins. i am inspired to make more trips to boston this week. i am lucky my job is going well, and i have no real work for school to complete (maybe a few fun songs). i have been reading so much about people and their creative outlets/pursuits. i am encouraged to try to look into the writing "thing" once again. a book on education, and creativity, and perhaps how teachers are constantly creative when they are most successful.

not sure exactly why creativity fascinates me so much - but i have determined it is the underlying interest in much of what i do. i have been watching the independent film channel quite a bit this week, for example - and what fascinates me most is the bios/stories of writers and actors and how they "made it". not so i can be famous and "make it" too - but just so i can see how they realized their creative dreams, and then so can i. similar circumstances, motivations inspire many of them in their creative endeavors.

great book - Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books. "book people" make me happy. i feel a certain kinship with them i suppose - what could be better than a good book??? speaking of great books, peter senge's newest is headed to me, courtesy of interlibrary loan. hooray! we are very short on cash this month, and i am using the salem library to the fullest extent!