Monthly Archives: August 2014

Our Minds

At some point I learned that the location of a word was the same across at least several people.  Now I am learning from a National Geographic article that every brain is as unique as each individuals face.   And how do we think? How is our mind related to our brain.  This is not known.  But I know that our minds are tied to our bodies and especially to our brains.

Brain Image, National Geographic dwnld AUG 24, 201432779  A normal human brain.  Picture by National Geographic in an article on the brain, which I found when I looked up Brain games and National Geographic.  But I cannot find it again.

I do not know how these apparent facts can be reconciled.  As a curious individual, I have wondered about many things.  Though I am in possession of all of my faculties, I have noticed that my own personal experience milieu has changed gradually over time, and that topics about which I tend to think shift in their immediacy.

A whole bunch of things probably go into my occipital lobes, and are processed by limbic system, other brain parts, and then by our frontal lobes.  And I get  thought.  The arena of my thoughts can shift quickly, as long as the set  of links is already in my brain.  In light of new information, this is my subjective feeling of myself, my brain at work.

 

 

 

Please Say, “Thank You”

This morning when I saw  a “Gratefulness Challenge” on Facebook, I thought, “What a good antidote to all of the disturbing news we have been getting on TV .”  With be-headings of journalists abroad, arrests of journalists in this country, suicides of prominent figures, and so on, it is good to take stock of what is good.DSC04003 Here is the front of an American Greetings card which shows gratitude put into words for a specific  person.  “Thank you” is trans-formative for both the giver and the recipient of the thanks, truly.  This sentiment is embodied in the butterflies surrounding the bouquet.

Every transaction between individuals could have a thank you attached by each to the other.   None of us have any entitlement to anything, and so we have to be thankful.

 

 

 

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