Quickthink

Professional basketball is a wild sport. And I am not talking about the pace of the action on the court — which is also wild. I am talking about the ups and downs that professional basketball teams go through during a single season. For example, a few weeks ago, the Sixers were hot and Celtics were a doormat team. The Sixers blew them off the court. The other day the Celtics blew out the Sixers and they beat the formerly dominant Heat twice in a row. That is wild.

Now the Heat are looking a bit ragged. I liked this comment from an ESPN article about the Heat trying to get ready for the playoffs

So figuring themselves out — getting to the carefree place the Celtics are in at the moment — is what matters to this group right now.

Getting to that carefree place. How often does this happen to the rest of us? Hmmm …

BTW, the Sixers may have recovered from their funk. They just won 2 straight by comfortable margins — admittedly against weaker teams.

Yesterday I had a quick tour of Miho Hatori’s kitchen. I was at Saveur looking for inspiration for dinner and there she was, inviting me in. So I checked it out.

This quote from Miho got me thinking

There’s a word, danshari, I’m really into; it’s the theory of getting rid of clutter, make a space to breathe, and to have a new idea. It’s three words: “to say no,” “throwing out,” and “letting go.”

I looked around my office and it hit me. Damn! Ihave weak danshari! I decided to go out for dinner.

FOLLOW - But you can create space in different ways. Consider what is happening at Kulturpark Plänterwald in the former East Berlin - artists are converting a former amusement park into a “haven for public art”.

Their memories and collective fantasies create space for new visions for culture and install surpluses and slippages in the passage of public time.

Hmmm … collective fantasies creating space? So perhaps it is not just clutter if you don’t see it that way.