The Association of Interdisciplinary Studies's first season has come to an end.
Martin, who was a kind of forerunner, returned to Germany in April after some eight month in La Boulaye. He continued modelling the 3D skeleton Sinja-as-is, which Christoph began. He did the cleaned version Sinja-Ideal, as well as ligaments and muscles and began the illustrations for Elements of Equitation (2005), which Christoph at this time completes. He as well participated in riding. His animations sparked the idea of reflexes in the human sensory-motor system, which may be appropriated in riding. His guitar was the main-stay of our music sessions, which sadly stopped after he returned home.
Marc returned to the U.S. after cooking, editing and doing some of the Capitalim research during his twelve month here. Dorothea returned to Switzerland after ten month. She started our biological garden, did preserving and learned to ride. It was her very first experience with horses. Observing her rapid progress toward proficiency, especially in the first few month, provided valuable information for the current research 'How to Teach Riding' and for the ongoing research of equitation.
Emile, our summer guest from New York, returned to New York after nine weeks of dealing with Baechler's 'The Origins of Capitalism', concentrating on this author's famous analysis of Marx.
It just so happened that, towards the end of this season, my husband and I were given two small black adult cats. Please see the October 20, 2006 issue of the New Yorker for their portrait. And, serendipidously, with the arrival of these two little creatures my sense of house-keeping returned after some five riding research years of being content with a bed, a lab-top and meals provided.
We are at this time embarking on a major reorganisation of our household and now the days are passing with fixing, cleaning, structuring and rebuilding, not to forget cooking. Meanwhile the plans for the next season are in full swing.
More details later...
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