Tail End of a mini-cycle

The anticipation is gone. The excitement, the wonder, disappeared. It’s not exactly back to the grind, but it’s time now to be preparing for the next week. Cleaning up, organizing preparing mentally. I have some speeches to prepare, some logistics to organize, but through it all, I have my body to love and take care of. Drink enough water, read for good information. Play my guitar to keep learning melodies for when I play with others in the future. Work on fixing the broken car. All these things are part of the 10,000 things that swirl about my ecosystem.

This morning I got up at 5:30 to feed the cats, then had to separate them because they were fighting over the litterbox. The second litterbox has been put away for a few days due to company coming over, things are not back to normal exactly. I slept for another 2 hours, got up at 7:30, and finished the final few minutes of Pluribus episode 5 called “Got Milk”. Carol discovered something. (I’ll keep it cryptic for now, although the episode has been out for a few days).

I was hopeful that episode 6 was available today, but it won’t be here until December 5. I cannot engage in Pluribus until then. I do have anticipation about that. 

I am back to thinking about the neurology of understanding. Shira told me that information is like food, we need good information to be put through our brains for thinking. Better information will result in better thinking, which will produce better results. In Chapter 1 of Smart Moves, Hannaford says “ It is our body’s senses that feed the brain environmental information with which to form an understanding of the world and from which to draw when creating new possibilities.” She is saying that all bodily functions are important, but that in our culture we tend to think of our brains as the thinking entity, somehow separate from the rest of our body. There is the blood-brain barrier which I guess could support that idea, but her point is that we look at some parts of what we are and do as lower forms of being human, like emotions and bodily functions. She reasons that this notion of our body/mind separation informs a lot of educational theory, resulting in less optimal learning environments and expectations on the learner. She is setting the stage to share her findings regarding her investigative and reflective journey into the “exponentially growing information base about body/mind function and the essential link of movement, the senses and emotion to effective learning.” Chapter 2 is titled Neural Networks- Superhighways To Development.

But first: Rob Pace Our Senses