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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 was up early this morning, 6 A.M., thanks to Mopsy and it is very cold (36 degrees F.) again. I let Mopsy out on the porch but in two seconds she was back inside, hopping on the arm of the sofa under the lamp. Kitties are smart. When it was light enough, I saw frost on roofs across the street. This is sort of a shock after days in the 80s last week.  My favorite next door neighbors have listed their house and are looking for something bigger. I will be so sad to see them and their two little girls go. We've been neighbors for nine years so the people who buy will not have known Jim. It makes me sad. until next time...c |
| We discussed The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt at our most recent book club meeting. The first remark was the book was so heavy! Yes, 770 some pages, it would have been so much easier to read on my Kindle, but I didn't feel like buying it. I did like the book, as did thousands of others, and thoroughly enjoyed Tartt's prose. After the book discussion we got off on a tangent of the pros and cons of audio books. I've only listened to one audio book in my life and that was Racing in the Rain, and that time was because it was the only copy available. I find when I listen to a book, my mind begins to wander and I have a hard time concentrating. I've tried listening to several but have given up and gone to the text version after about twenty minutes in. At the meeting others said they can follow the characters better on audio because they hear how to pronounce the names correctly. I make up my own pronunciation and as long as I'm consistent, I have no problem, think Ove. until next time...c |
| Recently, a mockingbird has been visiting my birdbath outside my computer window so I tend to see him (or her) many times a day. She is beautiful and takes a drink as no other bird that I've seen. She stands on the side of the dish for awhile, looks around, then dips her head, gets a sip and raises up, leaning back with her beak pointing toward the sky. She does this several times at one sitting and then flutters off, leaving the birdbath swinging on its jute hanger. until next time...c |
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