Gershwin and I love ourselves

I got an email from someone asking me what the poem I posted yesterday meant. I'll go ahead and explain from my point of view, but seriously, I'm fine with whatever anyone gets out of it.

I came up with the concept for the poem in darker days when I was really fenced in, but it's not a dark poem. It's based on a pastime of mine where I like to lay on my back in fields and stare up at the sky and imagine that I'm really looking down on an ocean that I can just fall into. It's something I've always remembered doing. I also wanted to play with the idea that up is sometimes down and blah, blah, literary crap.

Talking about oneself is always a little awkward. You either sell yourself short or come off sounding like a raging egomaniac. It's also not very honest — I'm both self-deprecating and a raging egomaniac. So I probably won't explain things very much in the future, just put them out there.

Plus, if I stop to think about anything I have to say, I'm running a real risk. Oscar Levant once said to George Gershwin: "Tell me, George, if you had to do it all over again, would you still fall in love with yourself?"

Yes, yes I would (egomaniac). The only problem is that I'm a neglectful lover (self-deprecating).

Entanglement: a love story

Poets, painters, writers, musicians - all have tried to express love. Not just love, but enduring love. The kind that haunts you forever. How odd is it, then, that the most beautiful expression of romance comes not from artists, but instead from the love-is-biochemical-processes crowd of scientists.

Soulmate love, aptly put:



From the artist, Justin Mullins:

ENTANGLEMENT
The connections between ordinary objects are fleeting and superficial. Two atoms may collide and separate, never to meet again. Others can stick together by virtue of the chemical bonds they form, until the day that bond is broken.

But there is another type of connection that is far more powerful and romantic. Certain objects can become linked by a mysterious process called entanglement. Particles that become entangled are deeply connected regardless of the distance between them. If they become separated by the width of the Universe, the bond between them remains intact. These particles are so deeply linked that it's as if they somehow share the same existence.

Physicists do not yet fully understand the nature of entanglement but there is growing evidence that it is a fundamental property of the universe. Unfettered by the restrictions of space, entanglement may be the ghostly bedrock upon which reality is built.

Exactly.