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Experience and Experiencing – Buckminster Fuller Institute

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Writing about one’s father is a challenging, almost overwhelming, task – particularly if one has not confronted that presence in writing. I have written about many other subjects, but not about Bucky (R. Buckminster Fuller.) My father was a warm, concerned, and sharing father. As focused as he was on his own work he nevertheless included me in his experiences and experiencing. I remember with great clarity when I was about four years old. I was sick in bed and he was taking care of me. He sat down on the bed beside me, with his pencil in hand, and told me, through wonderful free-hand drawings, a Goldilocks story. I was Goldilocks and with his pencil he transported me, not to the Bear’s house, but to universe, to help me understand something of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. What he was telling me was neither remote nor abstract. I was in a newly perceived universe. I was experiencing my father’s thoughts and he was experiencing his own thinking as he communicated with me. It was exci

Experience and Experiencing On the occasion of Bucky’s 100th anniversary – July 12, 1995 Writing about one’s father is a challenging, almost overwhelming, task – particularly if one has not confronted that presence in writing. I have written about many other subjects, but not about Bucky (R. Buckminster Fuller.) My father was a warm, concerned, and sharing father. As focused as he was on his own work he nevertheless included me in his experiences and experiencing. I remember with great clarity when I was about four years old. I was sick in bed and he was taking care of

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