Team Hubble

Contra dancing has continued to be great fun. About a month ago Isabel stayed until the last dance and we went out with a group of people afterwards and we named ourselves Team Hubble, which felt very fitting after the inspiration talk I went to by Neil Degrasse Tyson, the amazing Arican American Astrophysicist. Isabel and Oliva have become experts at it and Calvin has a growing appreciation too, although he's a bit young to deal with the complexities. I took him last week to give him a taste and it was hard convincing him to go home at the break. Isabel and Olivia sometimes get a bit tired out by the end and find other diversions--in this instance a bit of mischievous tandem ride in a wheelchair, which at leat provided lessons in cooperation. We have met some interesting folks through the dances including a young woman named Jay who works for the red cross as an educator, and another artists/engineer, Mark who made this amazing installation at Syracuse University. Isabel enjoyed exploring it. Mark and I are talking about doing a project together sometime in the next year where we build on his forest of pinwheels. I was thinking it would be fun to make two sets, one made out of his old engineering overheads (shown) and one made out of the old discarded textbooks from the Medical School library. We shall see if I can get anyone at the medical school interested in letting us set an installation up somewhere in a place where kids could have fun exploring it.