The word of the day is arbitrary and this sort of ties into what I was broaching on yesterday’s topic as it pertained to the article in the Atlantic. Our emotional buttons are not arbitrary but there are ways to rewire everything that comes at you. Last night, I spent a fitful sleep contemplating again – contemplating a feeling of being a microbe adrift in a sea of fluorescent green jello. My body actually had…
A friend sent an article from the Atlantic about how your last sensation is the one you perceive the strongest, so that sometimes what you think you experienced was not what really happened. Today, I woke still peaked from this virus and looked out the window to see snow. Then the electricity went off and as the house grew colder, I finally took Loca outside to see what the snow was all about. My neighbor…
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The last two days of being laid flat out has given me a lot of contemplation time – I can’t read because my eyes burn, I can’t think because I have a headache, and I can’t move because I feel like a freight train ran me down but I can contemplate. And here are a few things that I am penciling in for my New Year’s Resolution: 1) Quit using Google. I realize that I…
I spent another day yesterday in the sick ward and got up this morning still peaked but then looked outside and it was snowing!!! It never snows in New Orleans.
It has been grey and pouring rain all day in New Orleans, and it is getting colder. Yesterday it was 78° and now we are dropping into the 50s I believe. Anyway, it doesn’t matter because outside is reflecting inside – I’m sick with some bug that jumped on top of me and sucked the life out of me – much like a chupacabra but instead of just my brain, this bug took my guts…
That’s the word of the day on my Yahoo home page, but the word of the day is actually blech. Yesterday, around 2:00 PM, I got hit by a bug that took over my whole body and sent me horizontal for the last fourteen hours plus. It’s almost as if my entire being knew I had too much to do so it said, oh really?, you’re not doing anything – ping. If I could have…
The meaning of life is to live it and so it goes that fearing things you cannot control just produces gnarly chemicals in the body that do you no good. There was a great article in the NYT this Sunday about the Skinner box and the thrust of it is to not be a fearmonger and to avoid people who are overly pessimistic about the economy and tune out media that fans the emotional flames.…