Parks seldom start big - they grow

Happy New to all. May all your dreams fulfill during the course of the coming 365 days :-)

As I have moved into 2011 quite effortless, no big party, just listening to a superb concert
from Semperoper which was live-streamed, there was not more than letting things come.
Do we know what is calling us? Sometimes we have a feeling, more often we just don't
have a clue.

So totally empty in my head, I organized some bags with stuff from the "lost" venue CoOrpheum.

Surprise! JaneJacobs' "The Economy of Cities" got into my hands and off my thoughts were this past afternoon. Quoted from it, "Furthermore, the most meteoric rises (started at almost nothing) occur in new activities".

Would you have thought that the "Große Garten" in Dresden would look like that  two hundred years back?

As small as your first step towards your dream may look like just start and you will see what can emerge with some patience!

50 Year Truth - Aldous Huxley

AldousHuxley interviewed by ParisReview in 1960 had some thoughts on education and creativity that hold true still today.

INTERVIEWER

What about creativeness in general?

HUXLEY

Yes, what about it? Why is it that in most children education seems to destroy the creative urge? Why do so many boys and girls leave school with blunted perceptions and a closed mind? A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they’re fifty? It’s a problem in biochemistry and adult education.

Are you starting the journey with us and CoOrpheum to make AldousHuxley's dream become true? We are ready.

• Tell me and I will forget
• Show me and I will remember
• Involve me and I will understand
• Step back and I will act

Chinese proverb

.... and so it happened with the CoOrpheum