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 |  Day to day stuff....a memoir without order. |
 Imagination is described by Webster as...The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses in reality. Albert Einstein said "Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere."  I never realized it until I read it somewhere but there are ways to boost one's imagination: Create a visual journal Draw whatever you see for 15 minutes a day. You don't need to be an artist. Think like an artist Cut out pictures from magazines & piece them together to create an original image. Listen to Bach Close your eyes while playing your favorite music. Or listen to the sounds of nature on a CD or in the great outdoors. Play word games Try thinking of as many words as you can that begin with MAR...or you pick. Daydream Let your mind wander, or focus on a single object & study its characteristics.     Everyone has a story....here's mine.....c   |
| I finished J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy today, and it has left me with a lot more questions than answers. If you haven't read it, it's about the problems faced and facing poor people in Appalachia and areas to which they may have migrated for work. The book goes to the heart of the matter, hopelessness. How do you restore hope? My Jim was from West Virginia, from a poor family, but there were no drugs or alcohol involved as in Vance's family, but like Vance, he "joined up" right out of high school because there was no hope if he stayed. No hope of finding a good job, no hope of advancing one's station in life, no hope of fulfilling the American dream. Inadvertently, according to an interview Vance gave, his book spoke to the reason for Trump's presidency. When you're desperate, you do desperate things. You clutch at hope. until next time...c |
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