Thoughts on thoughts

I have a little experiment for you.
I noticed how my "alone" thoughts are different from those when someone is in the same room and/or building as me.
Self-awareness in solitude is way different than (self-) awareness when other people are present, even if not physically in the same room. That, in itself, is interesting.
What is compelling is that my thoughts changed as my position in space changed.
Let me explain: I was washing vegetables at the kitchen sink, facing a window, with my back to the door.
I then turned to the island to chop them up. In so doing, the window was now in my back as I faced the door. Boom! My train of thought became very different.
Somehow, I don't think it was related to the task at hand but to the environment I now saw.

This goes hand in hand with my mom's theory that as we age (and become really, really old), we can't hold our heads up much and start looking at the ground. This in turn shrinks our world to where our feet are and turns our world into a tiny piece of land... This affects our mood, our interests, and so on.

I guess it also speaks of body language where if you walk confidently, you think positive thoughts and the like. Sort of like people meeting on a bridge and mistaking their elevated heartbeat for love... Hen or egg, egg or hen...

BLIK

Design for those who like to change their minds. Really, that's roughly how this design product is advertised. Or "stickers for grown-ups". I mean, who woudn't want to decorate their house with giant stickers? This feeds in to the article I was reading recently about how to decorate your cube.
See blik site here: http://www.whatisblik.com/about.html

They are quite cool decals with the added value that you can peel them off (good for offices where you get moved every year or so). You can choose from a variety of themes and plan your design according to your taste. They have clouds and robots, geometric shapes and heads, organics... They sound like a lot of fun.

Bulldozers have feelings too!

We let the grass grow between the paving stones in the backyard. Well, not just the grass but pretty well any weed that felt like calling this area home. With the greenery came unwanted guests - sand wasps. Now, that is what I call them though I don't know if that is how they are classified. They are nasty little buzzing buggers that look like they would sting.

The backyard is for our dogs and we don't want them sharing their space with wasps. And so, today, I pulled out the weeds and unleashed the wasps that live in the ground. I felt like I am sure bulldozers feel when they raze poor areas where whole families have been evicted in the name of progress. I could feel the puzzlement and distress of the wasps as I was destroying their environment, parks, grocery stores (some were wild flowers) maybe schools. Very few protesters as I chose a moment of the day when they are not too active in the yard (I usually hear them early mornings when I change the drinking water outside). I dumped all the flowers in the woods on the property with a sad feeling of destruction. Now I know why bulldozers huddle at night with sorry faces...

I won the lottery!

Or so I am told a few times a day. In English, Spanish and, I suppose, Japanese (though one can't be too sure with all those question marks...). I don't know what I clicked but I am getting spammed so much these days that my head spins. It really sucks. All those "loterias" and also people from banks as well as nice people, all wanting to GIVE me money. Wow, no need to look for a job...

I will soon be resuming my kids' book. It got busy in the past few weeks. And catching up on my mail - though I have kept up-to-date with the bloggers among you (as up-to-date as the last blog...).

One hundred words

As promised, here is the link to the first draft of the children's story I have been writing.
Follow the link and instructions below for a sneak peek.

http://www.100words.net/front.cfm - on the pane on the left-hand side, under Read Selection - 2006", select June. My display name is 3hugger - select "All at once" if you want to read what I've been up to in one go...