{"id":74,"date":"2009-01-21T22:19:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T02:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-01-29T20:50:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T00:50:03","slug":"momentous-events-leave-nature-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/momentous-events-leave-nature-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentous events leave nature cold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s grand celebrations in Washington, and us watching on TV with much of the rest of the world, the ice and the sea were still there this cold morning.\u00a0 The frigid air knew nothing of rarefied oratory or high expectations, of the helicopter that had spun a departing president into the sky, and the ice had not heard of the new one &#8211; the president of the world, no less &#8211;\u00a0 who magically came into power at precisely noon while listening thoughtfully to Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Mah&#8217;s divine music.\u00a0 The ice floating on the sea, like the air suspended above it, just <em>was<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"75\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/momentous-events-leave-nature-cold\/2009-01-21\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2009-01-21.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2009-01-21\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ice floating on the tide, January 21, 2009&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2009-01-21.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-75\" title=\"2009-01-21\" src=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2009-01-21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ice floating on the tide, January 21, 2009\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2009-01-21-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2009-01-21.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice floating on the tide, January 21, 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But if a butterfly flapping its wings can alter events far away in space and time, perhaps this ice is not exactly the same as it would have been had yesterday been less auspicious.\u00a0 And if we cannot observe things without changing them on some microscopic level, then because I am thinking these thoughts, the morning has been made different just by my presence, by the same mechanism that Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration has changed the world.<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of a woman I met in a Nigerian market who spoke of how much better life had been under the brief regime of a certain president a few years before.  She said that in those days, &#8220;I would go home from the market and make better soup.&#8221;\u00a0 Seasoned with a dash of optimism and happiness, the flavour of ordinary, mundane ingredients can actually be improved.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I recall reading some time ago how the culture of government in the US had spawned a sort of anti-intellectualism: it wasn&#8217;t cool to be smart.\u00a0 Is that like the old custom of not standing higher than the king?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s not be smarter than the president?\u00a0 How disastrous for a nation!\u00a0 I predict a change in that regard, folks.\u00a0 So don&#8217;t hide your light under a bushel.\u00a0 This world needs all the smarts it can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s grand celebrations in Washington, and us watching on TV with much of the rest of the world, the ice and the sea were still there this cold morning.\u00a0 The frigid air knew nothing of rarefied oratory or high expectations, of the helicopter that had spun a departing president into the sky, and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/momentous-events-leave-nature-cold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Momentous events leave nature cold?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,3,35],"tags":[37,42,39,38,36,41,40],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nova-scotia-history","category-weather","category-philosophy","tag-butterfly-effect","tag-cold","tag-itzhak-perlman","tag-nigeria","tag-obama","tag-uncertainty-principle","tag-yo-yo-mah"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Momentous events leave nature cold? 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