Think about what’s pleasurable, not just what’s possible.
If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.
When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably had enough challenge to keep our brains healthy.
It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the way. But in fact as we know from our own experience we can keep on learning and learning means changing our brain on a physical level.
Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.
Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.
Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic.
Sometimes, I'll read a news story and there will be one line about something else, and I'll find it interesting and look into it. That can often turn into an entire story on its own.
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon. I want to erase the lines so I can be me. If we do not speak, who will?
Every Thanksgiving we feed the homeless so they may join us as we celebrate other people finding a home.