My daughters insistence on studying the deeper issues facing the world are often at odds wit...(expand)
My daughters insistence on studying the deeper issues facing the world are often at odds with my [lets be honest] materialistic and often superficial life! However she has converted me to some of her new ides particularly those based in knowledge like the work of biologist Jeremy Griffith at the World Transformation Movement.
This post reminded me of a what mountaineer Tim Macartney-Snape once said "There are many reasons why I love climbing-there's the physical pleasure, the mental challenge, the beauty. But underlying all is the compulsion to explore, to wonder what is possible, where we have come from and where we are going."