A link to a quirky story from years and years ago, but on a day when I've got so much to do, not to mention the road trip to Illinois....
Enjoy.
I am reading A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future , by Daniel H. Pink. I wouldn't have chosen this book had I been book hunting because I lean toward fiction—it was a gift from someone who, like me, is right-brain dominate. I haven't gotten very far, just far enough to learn that in Hippocrates' day, the left side of the brain was considered the true source of thought, the thing that separated us from the animals and made us human. It was the source of reason and logic. The right side was considered a useless left over, a parasite. Now we know that both sides of our brains are equally important and equally involved in our daily thoughts and functions. But some of us do seem to be governed by one side more strongly than the other. Me, sometimes I think the left side of my brain has completely atrophied, that the right side governs everything. But I am learning that I don't give that other side enough credit, that logical mathy side. As I read on ab...
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And just reading it made me shiver with cold. Brrr …
(It didn't help that the heating is off at the office today, yet the aircon is working. We're all in coats and scarves while the engineers try to sort it).
Old Blue was my father's car, and it truely was scary. He loved the thing and had one of his union buddies paint it this horrific bright blue, and then he made me drive it to school. I was a laughing stock. People would say, "Did you see that blue car in the parking lot? Who would drive that?" "Why, I don't know," I would say. "Some idiot."
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