Windmills of the Mind

May 6, 2008


...not futile, vaguely depressive, or stalled in the imaginary. A young Malawian figures out how to build a windmill for electric power (video).

Day for night. Sr. Dilys is right -- effective creativity is a divine spark, the Doing of It rolling down the Four Worlds from Idea to tangible reality.

Not to seem ungrateful, but why does this not happen all the time, everywhere there is a need? The key cultural question.

Reminded of this by The Corner.