In the past few years, but especially lately, I have opened my view up from just the arts to the physical sciences, psychology and philosophy. More and more I am seeing how they are connected, how they inform each other, and how incomplete they can sometimes be when viewed alone.
How can one look at the problems of impulse control in someone with brain damage without taking into account the brain damage? That would seem silly, yet during most of history, psychologists and their predecessors have done just that.
We can make experiments and teach children endless formulas for turning acids into bases and the perimeter of a triangle, but what about the beauty of a how gravity works or the speed of light? Where is the magic, the poetry, the story to get them interested? Where is the thread that connects them with science?
And what is our art without study of what is around us, but the self-centered ramblings of an adolescent?
Daylight Savings tells me it is tomorrow but I know better. It is always today.
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