Practices

We say we wear many hats. Hopefully, no more than one a time. But...

in this crazy times, with partial lockdowns and distance learning, knowing which one to pick is cloudy at best. A random choice.  

On some days, my hats tend to merge into unique creations, two or three at once. If I were to picture them, they might be funny looking, even ridiculous. ([imagine inserted gif.... no time to search]).

And so it was last week, after an infuriating and pointless telephone call that had me pacing f…

150.. The maximum number of actual friends our brains can network with  - that’s known as Dunbar’s number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number). Communities of 150 members seem to be in our genes.

42... the number of muscles on a face. We express emotions through their movement, even with our masks on. 

142... minutes, that’s the average time per person on social media every day! And that was in 2019, before the COVID 19 pandemic (https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2019/01…

Definition of symmetry Merrian-Webster online.

1. balanced proportions
2. the property of being symmetrical
3. a rigid motion of a geometric figure that determines a one-to-one mapping onto itself
4. the property of remaining invariant under certain changes (as of orientation in space, of the sign of the electric charge, of parity, or of the direction of time flow) —used of physical phenomena and of equations describing them.

It was probably going to be a big wedding day today, a big event day …

When where you born?

You were given a fantastic gift that day. One that you use every day, to solve anything from the mundane to the seemingly impossible. 

We are born creative. Babies look, observe, copy, learn. Always using creativity to pull themselves up, reach for something,  Toddlers are masters at this. They create play, make up words and worlds. That’s easy to observe, expected. As we grow older, though...

...we add an extra element: The Voice (call it ego, critic, adulting). We push …