The contemporary human, even of the marginally literate variety, constructs her own metaphors. The phrase, “To coin a metaphor” seems useless now. There is no longer a limited supply of original metaphors, which run as clattering dogs through the messy streets of mainstream language, mixed mutts baying away at tired ears who want for simple …
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Before we invented math we counted on our fingers. I doubt that people frequently used their toes, or we’d have a base 20 system and not a base 10 system. It just isn’t practical. Nine is a good number, I like it. It is one less than ten, a kind of pre decimal, pre decibel, …
I try to remember that I am not my ideas, that attaching myself to them or identifying with them is foolish. They are creatures that I harbor in the ecosystem of my mind. I can choose which ones I carry. I can kick out the really bad ones, but only if I remember that they …
I decided to try to become left-handed as a challenge to myself. I expected it to be very difficult and to be months of wiggly lines and trouble. I knew it must be possible, people switch hands under circumstances where they lose the use of their primary, but it came very easily and quickly to …
People go off saying “I’m trying to find myself.” Me? I have the opposite problem. I know exactly who I am and I find myself wherever I look. People who say they are trying to find themselves, they never got lost. They just don’t like the self that they got.
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