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LOOKING FORWARD to January

Happy New Year's everyone! 

My son Zulfi

I drove for ride-share. It didn't get busy till after midnight which was kinda surprising because in the past we had taken people to parties and bars as well as brought them home, but maybe people saved money by taking a car pool to the event.

This is one of the stories from this week.

There was a crackle in the air when these two women in my rideshare were describing to wedding in Minneapolis that they just attended. Their actress friend just got married, and she is also going to be playing Jodie Foster’s daughter in a movie in Switzerland, or is New Zealand ?? (I forget). 

Either way they described the wedding and the bride’s dress 👗 as a silk off the shoulder gown, and beautiful veil. Many of the guest were eccentric actors. The women said there was a coffee bar- a necessity at this wedding, because the guests sang karaoke all night. And basically the wedding was a great success!

Mural in north Minneapolis

Karaoke, by the way is not some thing I am totally great at because I lose my voice quickly and I’m soft-spoken. 

I just love hearing people talk about their wedding venue, and different things that have taken place on their special night . I especially love hearing about weddings that are quite costly… I can even bring a tear and become emotional when people describe weddings.

 

ON THE BLOG

Reading

"In Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness, Patrick House explores intensely interesting, beautifully provocative ideas about the neurobiology of consciousness. In addition to being an intellectual pleasure, this is an aesthetic one as well – House writes like a dream, with great drollness and elegance of phrase.

A review by Henry M. Cowles Think about anything often enough, from enough angles, and it’s bound to spinter and refract. Our minds are like kaleidoscopes, packed with mirrors we twist to see the world anew. Sometimes we’re twisting consciously, sometimes unconsciously. But no matter what, we end up seeing patterns that are more a product of the tool in hand than of the world on its other end. Stevens’s poem, on this reading, is less about blackbirds than about the lenses we use to spy on them. It’s a warning, in other words, not to mistake the kaleidoscope for the universe.

I liked how this book described how having a detached attitude towards something depends on how aloof you are.  If you are detached towards an argument, you may be more priviledged to have that aloofness. 

The book describes how in the future we will come to know what we USED to believe as "interpersonal differences", as we come to understand every tid bit of the brain. The book gives the example how some people cannot replay memories in their mind visually.  And if someone were to have an argument with a person of this nature, based on this awareness, they will better understand where this person is coming from.