They are "100% real Unreal" taste.
Sort of like the "genuine artificial gold" that the swim instructor promised us in camp when we were kids. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Showing posts with label Goal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goal. Show all posts
September 16, 2022
The Real Unreal
February 13, 2022
December 28, 2018
Emo Art
She makes this novel art called, "EMO", which stands for emotional.
In this art she mixes children and monsters--and it depicts how innocent kids have to deal with the monsters they find in an often unscrupulous and morally-tarnished society.
I love the feelings and message of this art in that it encapsulates how children enter this world in purity, but how so many bad people and things around them (and us) can corrupt that.
I always learned that the goal for each person was to leave the world a better place then the way we found it; however, I think a more personal goal should also be for us to leave here as better human beings than the day we arrived.
Challenging ourselves--learning and maturing--yet at the same time keeping that essence of decency and integrity of mind, heart, and deed--that is a life where we can grow up, but not turn into the morally-bankrupt monsters that we see all around us.
(Source Art: Rebecca Ochayon)
June 2, 2016
Should You MYOB?
Great Salt And Pepper comic in the Wall Street Journal today.
"What makes you think the meaning of life is any of your business."
Man goes to mountain.
Man seeks to know the meaning of his existence.
Mountain tells man to mind your own business.
I guess it's just not that easy.
No one will just tell us how each of us is to make our difference in this world.
Of course, there is faith and religious teachings to guide us.
But each and every one of us must find our path to G-d and our mission to his world.
In doing that we struggle through life's trials and tribulations.
It is painful at times, but we change and grow especially when the pain of what we are doing wrong becomes greater than the pleasure we gain from it.
The meaning is in the journey and in the destination we seek.
Our paths are not straight, but winding and hilly and not without obstacles--but it is a trek not only to the mountain, but to the very heavens itself. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
January 9, 2015
Soccer Soda On Metro
Watch what happens when people leave their trash on the Metro (Washington, DC).
In this case, it's a bottle and this one guy in jeans can't seem to get rid of it.
It's sort of hilarious.
First, the bottle is dumped by an uncaring passenger, it rolls around for awhile, and ends up sitting in the middle of the train car.
The train stops at the station and the people coming aboard step around and over the water bottle.
This guy in the center is irked by this bottle and just sort of blatantly kicks it at a women in winter boots standing by the doors.
But it eventually rolls back and hits him in the foot.
He's talking away (blah blah) on his cell, yet maneuvers the bottle ever so discretely to roll it backwards to someone else
But it ends up right back at him twice more.
Next stop, he runs off the train (and away from this bottle), but the person behind him kicks it after him and towards the doors.
Then this one lady with the orange bag and red purse gets up from her seat, and gives it a big kick right out the door.
She does this while the other people are boarding...oops watch out for the flying bottle.
Garbage left on the Metro...Goal! Score! ;-)
(Source Video: Andy Blumenthal)
October 31, 2013
Pain is Relative
Why?
Because pain (like many emotions) is relative to our understanding of it.
To me, when someone says a 10 for pain, I think of someone under the most excruciating pain--like when someone, G-d forbid, is being tortured.
However, someone else may think of 10 as just being really sick and uncomfortable.
That's why I like this graphic that is used to level-set what each number in the scale represents.
Using this simple graphic, our definition of pain is not purely subjective, but rather each person can look at the faces and expressions and see how they relate to them.
Of course, the goal on the right for zero pain is a great goal, even if not always achievable.
In a sense this is a very basic personal architecture--where you have your "as-is" on the scale and your "to-be" which is your goal.
Then the doctor and patient work together to figure out a transition plan on how to get there (medicine, rehabilitation, healthier living, etc.).
While pain is usually just a symptom, it is a beginning to get at the root cause of what is bothering us and needs to be fixed. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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