by Kat Bair | Dec 20, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog
My family and I watched a Muppet Christmas Carol last night. If you haven’t seen it, please change that as quickly as possible. In one of the early scenes, Ebenezer Scrooge walks the streets of London while a chorus of Muppets sing a song explaining that he is a...
by Kat Bair | Dec 11, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog
I wonder where we got the expectation that things going well equated to things going smoothly. That a successful event or program meant one that had no hiccups, reschedules, unexpected challenges, or even catastrophic failures. When we are asked how our holiday went,...
by Kat Bair | Nov 30, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog
I will admit that I have never been an art gal. In an art museum I rely heavily on the little signs explaining what makes a piece of art “good” or special, or in the case of a lot of contemporary art, what I’m even supposed to be looking for. I don’t scoff at abstract...
by Kat Bair | Nov 16, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog
Physicist, Nobel Prize winner, and notably multidisciplinary genius Richard Fenyman credited some of his brilliance to a strange habit of keeping a list of his “12 favorite problems” – 12 open-ended, largely unsolvable problems that just simmered,...
by Kat Bair | Nov 6, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog
On Sunday, I had the chance to listen to a local cinematographer, and he said something that’s been rattling around in my head since. It was on how a cinematographer reads a script. For those uninitiated in the film world, like myself, a cinematographer is like...
by Kat Bair | Oct 18, 2023 | Big Ideas, Blog
The Shakers were one of the most influential Christian movements in the United States in the nineteenth century. A charismatic sect of the Quakers, the Shakers believed in realizing the Second Coming of Christ through working towards more perfect societies. Shakers...
