by Roel Snieder | Dec 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
I have the privilege to play in a jazz ensemble with a group of students. We meet twice a week, play jazz classics and improvise. In the process we hone our playing skills, and we experience the joy of making music together. We recently played at the homecoming...
by Roel Snieder | Nov 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
To be honest, I was in doubt whether to write a newsletter on being grateful because this topic is often rehashed around Thanksgiving. But I decided to go ahead for two reasons that are related. The first is that we live in a time when many of us our preoccupied with...
by Roel Snieder | Nov 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
In his book The Web of Life, Fritjof Capra offers two ways of thinking: the self-assertive paradigm and the integrative paradigm. The self-assertive paradigm involves linear and analytical thinking, it is based on a reductionist point of view where a complicated...
by Roel Snieder | Oct 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
We all want to be seen and heard, but are you truly listening in your conversations? From my perspective as a physicist, it seems that listening is a simple skill: we just absorb the sound waves, and that’s it! But the reality is not so simple. We only process...
by Roel Snieder | Oct 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
My 19 year old Subaru was doing fine. Well … it had an occasional problem starting. It would need to crank for about 10 seconds and spit out fumes of unburnt gasoline, but then it would run smoothly. This happened only occasionally, about 90% of the times it started...
by Roel Snieder | Oct 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
In the movie “Our souls at night”, Louis is an elderly widower. One night, his neighbor Addie, who is a widow, comes over with a question that she asks with trepidation. Her nights are long and lonely, and she asks Louis if he wants to come over to sleep with her. She...
