About NC Weil
NC Weil has a BA in Russian Language & Literature from University of Colorado in Boulder; despite lacking Russian ancestry, she was drawn early to the novels of Dostoyevsky, followed by Tolstoy, Gogol, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Ulitskaya, and others.
At 18 she started practicing yoga, and continues doing asanas nightly, last thing before bed. If 10,000 hours at an activity is an expertise milestone, she’s achieved that with yoga.
She has a large collection of toast cartoons. Folding origami is a good break from reading and writing.
She hikes to high mountain lakes every summer to bask in the great open silence near timberline, often catching fish. The higher the altitude, the more intense the colors of wildflowers and trout. She has met moose, pikas and ptarmigans, grateful to spend time in their world.
At heart she’s just a hippie, comfortable in her skin, joyous among her fellow beings, plant and animal.
She enjoys languages, Scrabble, and the fun of inventing new words whose place in the lexicon has been blank.
Words:
Triposphere - wherever you are when you're in motion - around town or around the world, exploring the triposphere.
Intimition - Intuition with respect to time. Not clock-watching, but that inner timer that says, "Go now" and when you arrive, you make the connection you'd otherwise miss.
Shriggle - (kudos to my 4-year-old grandson). He stacked five 20-sided dice, but when he put on the sixth, they all fell - "It shriggled!" he exclaimed. Indeed it did.
Art is everywhere, reminding us there is more to our world than what we're used to. The play of sun on the small tetrahedrons casts rainbows across the plaza - like dewdrops on long grasses, or on a spiderweb after rain, or the phenomenon of a rainbow itself - not a "thing" but the intersection of water droplets, light, and an observer.
