THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
 LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic, detail oriented
facts rule, words and language
present and past, math and science
can comprehend, knowing
acknowledges, order/pattern perception
knows object name, reality based
forms strategies, practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling, "big picture" oriented
imagination rules, symbols and images
present and future, philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes, appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based, presents possibilities
impetuous, risk taking |
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May 28, 1953 British Colonel John Hunt, leader of the expedition, chooses two Brits out of his team to leave the South Col where they are encamped at 25,940 feet elevation and make a bid for the summit. The prize; to be the first to climb the world’s tallest mountain, Mt Everest at 29,035 feet. But hours later, intimidated by a razor-like ridge, they return to camp. The next day, Colonel Hunt turns to his back-up plan – a beekeeper from New Zealand and a local Sherpa guide. Probably the strongest of the group yes, but not Hunt’s ideal plan. It would be far better for British nationals to bag the summit. After all, the world was watching. The beekeeper, Edmund Hillary, and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay now had their turn.  World War II had ravaged Great Britain, tumbling the great empire from her long-held position of world power and influence. She could no longer maintain her colonies. The country was poor, relying upon loans from the U.S. (which they paid off in February 2007) to finance her slow reconstruction. Cripe. Groveling before one her old colonies.
One bright spot had been the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II a year before for maybe a new Queen meant better times ahead. It might have only been a straw to grasp, but even a small hope is still hope. The Brits needed this mountain – this heroic achievement. And ironically, it now rested upon the shoulders of two men who were, well, not Brits. And one of them was a beekeeper (a beekeeper!). Hillary and Norgay had set out in middle-of-the-night darkness and had been gone much longer than the Brits of the day prior. No doubt Colonel Hunt wondered if like George Mallory (“Because it’s there.”) and Sandy Irving of 30 years before, Hillary and Norgay had disappeared never to be heard from again. |
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 February 24, 2009
Next to the nasty winter we’ve been having, the common topic over the counter has been the spiraling economy. It reminds me of a story about the Italian mountaineer, Walter Bonatti (b. 1930). July 1961 Three Italians, Walter Bonatti, Andrea Oggioni, and Roberto Gallieni arrive at hut on the col de la Fourche in the Alps. It is their jumping off point to be the first to climb the Central Pillar of Freney, a smooth rock obelisk 400 feet high that sits atop a 2,000-foot pedestal of broken granite. The three Italians were shocked to find four Frenchman already in the hut. Two teams. One goal: to be the first. In that unusual spirit of sudden camaraderie found only in the wilderness, they form one team. Day One: climbed about a third up the pillar. The cracks were still heavily iced, slowing their progress. They bivouac for the night. Day Two: reached the base of the obelisk when a brewing snow storm struck. Thunder and lightning flashed and roared. A Frenchman was struck and badly shocked, but able to continue. They settled down to wait out the snowy inferno. Day Three: the storm intensifies. Summiting is impossible. So is retreat. But what storms deliver in hostility is juxtaposed by their duration. Storms of malice never last long. They would settle in and wait it out. |
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