FROM SALT TO GAS IN THE CITY OF ZIGONG

Mar 25, 2017 | Blog |

One day I was cooking lunch over the natural gas stove in our house. I became mesmerized by the beautiful blue flame and started wondering about the story of natural gas. So I started doing some research and would often comes across statements like this: One of the most famous of these natural gas flames was found in ancient Greece, on Mount Parnassus around 1000 B.C. A goat herdsman came across what looked like a ‘burning spring’, a flame rising from a fissure in the rock. The Greeks, believing it to be of divine origin, built a temple on...

Be Amazed By Nature

Dec 11, 2016 | Be Amazed By Nature

Photo by Mike Boswell So often these days our eyes are glued to screens, that we have forgotten the rest of the world around us. The Amber Spirit desire to reawaken a sniff of the amazing natural world around you. Maybe something about how a particular grass sprouts in the spring in the plains of Colorado will be shown to hail from the shores of Spain where your ancestors come from. That you start talking more walks to be in the presence of your ancestors memory and the journey of those wild grass seeds that came with them. You will...

Hear Incredible Music

Dec 11, 2016 | Hear Incredible Music

Photo by Damien Pollet We will journey together on an exploration of music from around the world that touches the heart and transforms the mind. This music is often powerful and deep with the fabric of culture. What might this music look and sound like? Well here are a few examples: ...

Be Awed By Old And New Traditions

Dec 11, 2016 | Be Awed By Old And New Traditions

Photo by Niyaz Bakılı Traditions are often the foundations for old cultures. If you are in the culture it is ordinary, but if you are outside of the culture, it can be amazing to see, hear and experience. For many of us, we are like orphans living in a society that tries to make culture for us with no real roots. By exploring other cultures with deep roots, we might rediscover our own forgotten cultures of our ancestors and thus we could attempt to recreate a real culture out of the ashes of the past. We will also look at...

Get Introduced To Stunning Art

Dec 11, 2016 | Get Introduced To Stunning Art

Photo By Prasad Pillai Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go...

Author: Chris Rosenau