by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Photography, Poetry
Step 1: Take 50 black and white photographs of Mother Nature, then carefully edit. Check ✔︎. Step 2: Write 50 haikus based on each photo.25 down, 25 to go. 50% checked ✔︎. (Who can possibly forget my Leaves And Fractals Haiku, the breathtaking Sea Bubbles Haiku, and...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing
Although a horse saddle is a beautiful piece of engineering, whenever I see one, I think instead of the mathematical saddle point—in this case, the central point on the surface of the saddle which curves up both ways along one axis, but curves downwards both ways in...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing
The photo above shows my cat Roo being quite curious about a new item in the house: balloons. Friend or foe? Alive or not? Anything to do with food? Any threat? I am sure these were some of the questions Roo sorted out for himself, and after about ten minutes, he left...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing, Writing Habits
At my desk I have a print called Reaching for the Stars, created by the artist Marvin Oliver. Isn’t that Raven, stealing the box of light from the chief and delivering it to the black sky (giving us the sun, moon, stars, and planets), a tricky little thing? Anyway,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Philosophy
In a discussion on spirituality, the philosopher and poet John O’Donohue translated a Gaelic expression of the Irish fishermen “Is fánach an áit a gheobfá gliomach” into: “‘It is in the unexpected or neglected place that you will find the lobster.'”...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Play
During a recent burst of playing, my cat Roo, now one-and-half years old, threw his Hello Kitty toy into the air, after which it unceremoniously landed in his water bowl. Hello Kitty playtime abruptly ended. Now, was this cat-throw a mistake? No, at least from Roo’s...
