Thursday, October 31, 2013
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Friday, October 25, 2013
Days go by
Wow it has just been so long since I've had the momentum to blog.
Life goes on, most assuredly. The fall is stinking beautiful up here, and we've been blessed with the best weather - crisp and cool and breezy and sunny and I just try to take it all in, because as I get older, the seasons really do start to fly by, and there's not one thing I seem to be able to grab a hold of to take with me. All I can do is appreciate the moments spent in awe of nature as they come.
But now for some more silliness, because I am also in need of a mind dump:
Lots of time spent on the health effects of marijuana this week, and a lot of respect felt for my colleagues who devote their time to wading through such topics with our students. When I actually get to think about the science and read journal articles from *gasp* 2013, I get into it. When I spend my time delicately answering question after question about how much students can smoke without having a "problem," I tend to lose a little of my umph. Perhaps within the intersection of the two types of my work lies the issue - perhaps we've got a minority of kids running around, axons in the hippocampal regions of their cerebral cortexes all diffused, forgetting how much marijuana they can smoke without it becoming a problem. It's a real joy those limited times I spend working with kids in-person, and I meet young people more focused on their lives and living them well than on the minutia of risk aversion-themed rebuttals I hear, and mostly from adults who assume their kids are less healthy than the reality states.
In other recent times and/or seasonal news, I need to figure out a Halloween costume. This is always an agonizing decision for me, and even more last minute than it is agonizing. That may be because part of me remembers that I am an adult, but it's mostly likely more so the case that I get too excited to figure it out.
Marijuana and Halloween. For now, mind dump complete.
Life goes on, most assuredly. The fall is stinking beautiful up here, and we've been blessed with the best weather - crisp and cool and breezy and sunny and I just try to take it all in, because as I get older, the seasons really do start to fly by, and there's not one thing I seem to be able to grab a hold of to take with me. All I can do is appreciate the moments spent in awe of nature as they come.
But now for some more silliness, because I am also in need of a mind dump:
Lots of time spent on the health effects of marijuana this week, and a lot of respect felt for my colleagues who devote their time to wading through such topics with our students. When I actually get to think about the science and read journal articles from *gasp* 2013, I get into it. When I spend my time delicately answering question after question about how much students can smoke without having a "problem," I tend to lose a little of my umph. Perhaps within the intersection of the two types of my work lies the issue - perhaps we've got a minority of kids running around, axons in the hippocampal regions of their cerebral cortexes all diffused, forgetting how much marijuana they can smoke without it becoming a problem. It's a real joy those limited times I spend working with kids in-person, and I meet young people more focused on their lives and living them well than on the minutia of risk aversion-themed rebuttals I hear, and mostly from adults who assume their kids are less healthy than the reality states.
In other recent times and/or seasonal news, I need to figure out a Halloween costume. This is always an agonizing decision for me, and even more last minute than it is agonizing. That may be because part of me remembers that I am an adult, but it's mostly likely more so the case that I get too excited to figure it out.
Marijuana and Halloween. For now, mind dump complete.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Throwing this up there
I haven't posted in far too long.
So I'm throwing this thought up here for everyone to ponder.
And this one.
Do we, and by how much, overestimate our capacity to know? To be certain? To dominate understanding?
And how does this affect our lives, our place in the universe, and our ability to connect with what really matters?
Coming from an avid brain enthusiast, I've got to wonder what we all , full of cerebral narcissism, might be missing.
So I'm throwing this thought up here for everyone to ponder.
And this one.
Do we, and by how much, overestimate our capacity to know? To be certain? To dominate understanding?
And how does this affect our lives, our place in the universe, and our ability to connect with what really matters?
Coming from an avid brain enthusiast, I've got to wonder what we all , full of cerebral narcissism, might be missing.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Friday, October 4, 2013
Significantly satisified
Well, despite my best efforts at cheeriness, it has been a blah kind of week.
Or at least that's my high-expectations, love of flurry and activity kind of take on the week.
One thing that has definitely kept me going is the sea, or, if we're being technical, the Massachusetts Bay on which I live.
My move this past June was definitely the right one. I think I would be crazy if it were not for the water. Before or after a day of the "blahs," God reminds me of the same thing Samwise so often does:
Or at least that's my high-expectations, love of flurry and activity kind of take on the week.
One thing that has definitely kept me going is the sea, or, if we're being technical, the Massachusetts Bay on which I live.
My move this past June was definitely the right one. I think I would be crazy if it were not for the water. Before or after a day of the "blahs," God reminds me of the same thing Samwise so often does:
“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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