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For Spacious Skies is a nonprofit organization dedicated to inducing an ongoing conscious awareness of the sky.
Former television reporter Jack Borden encourages schools to incorporate more sky awareness into their lesson plans. In a Harvard study, "sky-aware" students surpassed "non-sky" students in other fields of study, including visual arts, music appreciation and reading and writing. English philosopher John Moffitt, said: "To know a thing well we must look at it a long time." "So it is with the sky," Borden says. "Look at it often and long and you will grow to appreciate it more and more." |
Lessons from the Past...It's about becoming AWARE..
For Spacious Skies.has a mission to improve our lives with the simple method of looking up. We invite you to read our blog and develop the desire to look up- and teach the children. |
What difference does watching the sky make? "Once emotions have been aroused--a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love--then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning." Rachel Carson
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A day without beauty is an opportunity lostFind the Cloud of the Day at the Cloud Appreciation Society!
"We believe that clouds are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul. Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save money on psychoanalysis bills." ~ Cloud Appreciation Society manifesto |
Where to begin Resources.. Sky Awareness is not a "weather unit".; It is more akin to altering a person's visual experience
of daily life so the sky becomes part of the visual field. |
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What am I seeing in the sky?Sometimes, when we focus on cloud names, something in the experience gets lost. However, there are times when we just have the need to know.the name...
FSS Cloud Chart |