Tai Chi Yoga is a thing, mindfulness, procrastination, don't forget to be well-rounded, animals helping animals, environmental influence, Cosmopolitan vs Provincial, Glory vs. Truth, Learning Chinese, Disney, Downton Abbey and Modernizing, emotionally unstable people, the culture change movement, BRAINS, robots, Tolkien, and MORE!

The Specious Present

Spontaneous moments of Tai Chi Yoga before bed.

Mindfulness is an "at all waking hours" kind of thing.

According to my Goodreads inventory, I'm currently reading 24 books + 3 that I haven't added yet. I guess I should finish some of those...

Trying not to go completely mental and forget the body and soul in the process.

How different animals create things that other animals use without being aware of it. Bees making honey, or squirrels, mice, and spiders making homes in human shelters, etc.

How our environment influences us: "English critic William Hazlitt became acquainted with Romantic poetry by walking with Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth. He discovered that the walking paths preferred by each poet directly influenced their writing styles. Wordsworth was more lyrical, Coleridge more dramatic. Not coincidently, so was their walking."

AND

"You'll never meet a dwarf named Giambattista Vico." - from The Hobbit and Philosophy

Cosmopolitan/Countercosmopolitan/Provincial. Fallibilism. Pluralism.

Heroism & Glory vs. Beauty & Truth

When you learn numbers one to seven in Chinese, you almost know all of the days of the week too. Hint: Monday starts the week.

The fun of looking through Chinese texts for symbols you know.

Strange how it almost seems easier to recognize *patterns* in languages with logograms than in languages with phonograms. But it's possible that I only recognize them because I'm unfamiliar with the meaning, so I'm mostly only looking at structure? Hmm.

Nevertheless, how you can condense an entire concept into one image is well...artistic...but also efficient.

But but but...also, humanity's ability to construct an abstract image and create meaning out of it. WHAT.DOES.THAT.MEAN?!

Just realized I'm probably the equivalent of Ariel The Mermaid to Asian culture. Hmm.

Beauty and The Beast, and the Stockholm Syndrome.

Are the people/women who cut or changed their hair in Downton Abbey those who became most modernized?

YES!!! https://youtu.be/vdnFmq7UVys

Despite lack of a better name: https://youtu.be/5LtsD9xowP0

More Fiechter: https://youtu.be/jFkOr_eKkqA

Attention is pretty effing powerful stuff. Be careful with it.

How to deal with emotionally unstable people. :-/

It sucks wanting to help and knowing you aren't the right person to help.

What do you do when you get into a situation that you were once on the other side of? Write an Adele song? Try on your own shoes? Feck.

Frustration with just how wrong messages that support the "Just go for it! Take a chance! Regardless of the consequences, you only live once!" mentality can be taken.

When saying "no" saves you 37 hours a week of your life to be enjoyed on something other than someone else's mission.

The "culture change" movement in nursing and long-term care. Backlash against institutions. *Thumbs up*

Changing culture requires changing the way you view something first. METAPHORS.

Viruses.

Sneaky Devil, the Brain. Constantly advertising people to you via little memories. You read Alexander Pope and you think of this person. You see colored pencils and you think of this person. You smell coconut oil and you think of this person. Not a bad thing really, just amused by this I guess.

What does it mean for humans to create robots?

Oh, the things you research for writing a book...like how to survive a bear attack when caught in a corner.

Myths, and facts, and Tolkien. How life changes and doesn't change at the same time.

Sitting by the fire is such a delight.

Pen-clicking and staring somewhere looking for answers beyond your view.

Excited for Monday!!! ^_^ <3