Saturday 07/12/2023
Ran the gym machines, third day in a week. Yay me.
Yesterday Harriet had mentioned she was going to take her visitors to see the “orbs on the campus” and I had no idea what she was talking about, which surprised her. It turns out that the art piece named Pars per Toto, Latin for “parts for the whole”, has been in the Science Quad since 2021. Later she sent me this article from the Stanford Daily. (Scroll to the very end for details of the materials in the stones.)
So this morning I went to see it. It’s easy to get to; just park on the Oval, walk toward the Memorial Church, turn right to the next quad and the huge, perfect spheres are hard to miss.
Balls on the engineering quad. Ah, the jokes just write themselves… Fortunately the spheres are grand enough to rise about college humor. They are really astonishing, I would love to know how the artist even starts to make a perfect 5-foot-diameter sphere or granite.
In the afternoon I joined a party of 7 others to attend the season-announcement party at the Pear theater. Several of my neighbors are strong backers of the Pear, donors etc. I keep touting the in-my-opinion equally good and worthy local theater, the Bus Barn, but to no avail. Anyway the Pear is doing some interesting things and some not so interesting (IMO) next season and I suppose I will sign up for a season ticket.
Codgerville 