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I forget what I thought

I had a good idea for my blog but then I saw a title.  The words of that title swallowed my good idea!  Very impolite!  Some titles can linger.  “Don’t just do something!  Sit there!”, a book by Sylvia Boorstein, comes to mind all by itself.

Not too much heaven, please

Many conceptions of bliss or heaven depict a place and time of zero problems and negatives.  But I wonder if humans don’t need and depend on a string of difficulties and problems that assist us in noticing and enjoying times when things are just right.  I think we are built and evolved to be in this world of pestilence and pests, disease, failure and pain, disappointments.  As with much of our lives, we may profit most from the right balance of negatives and glorious, wonderful times.

Traveling

We didn’t spend the morning at home.  Instead we drove around central Wisconsin. We have had several days of excellent weather.  The fall colors of the trees are wonderful and widespread. Lynn and our daughter had already walked the newly open Plover River Trail and Lynn took me there during our travels. Very good morning.

"Good luck with that"

When I tell my friends I am trying to create gold from a mixture of lead and beer, they wish me “Good luck with that”.  My wife says they don’t really mean what they say.  Should I believe her?

Putting things back

The book by Judith Flanders called “A Place for Everything” and “The Address Book” by Deirdre Mask are both about inventing systems of location, such as where to put materials in a library and how to give useful addresses to buildings in a large city.  Sometimes, new materials such as slide/tapes are invented and somebody has to figure a plan for storage and retrieval.  

It is nice when we can find something we are looking for but after we finish using it, it has to be put back.  When I open the dishwasher to a batch of now-all-clean dishes, glasses, bowls and silverware, they each have to be put back where they “belong” for finding again when next needed

Updates

Parents of a newborn baby expect many changes in the new child.  That baby will get bigger.  When she reaches a certain age, she will marry and maybe work with a partner to make another new born.  We humans live with steady updates and changes.  But those are not the updates that flummox me.  It is when the buttons that do this and that on a computer or other device are in different places.  And where is that button that used to do that thing?  I can’t find it at all.

Mis-heard

Two friends on the phone together.  One explains what her granddaughter is up to.  The other hears that the young lady is going to run a nail salon.  She expresses surprise.  The speaker explains that is not what she said.  She said that she was going to run a marathon. As we age, accurate hearing can be more difficult.

Old age with Google

I looked up which Apple product brought the company the most income and got an answer that it has been the iPhone.  I have an iPhone but I don’t use it much. I also have an Apple watch but I don’t use it at all.  I am a poor typist, often striking the wrong key or two keys.  But I do use an iPad to check questions and ideas with the internet and with my memory getting more and more fallible and stalled, I am grateful to have access to the Google “search engine” and its results. 

What miracles we are!

When reading on a Kindle or the Kindle app on an iPad, it is easy and quick to mark statements of interest, “highlights”.  The Kindle technology makes saving or sending a file of the highlights I make from a book convenient.  When our book group discussed D. Eagleman’s “Incognito”, I looked over my highlights for it.  As I asked myself what I had taken away from that book, it seemed my basic reaction is what miracles we are.  

We don’t understand our bodies or minds.  Not completely.  Only a few centuries back, some Europeans were accusing others of being in league with the devil.  To see what we are up to today, take a look at “Replaceable You” by Mary Roach.