Experience experiment

EXPERIENCING  THE EXPERIMENTS

Well since many of us are  “sheltering in place”—which is a phrase that no one ever used until this year—we used to  call it “getting grounded,” maybe we can. Do some  word association without waiting for the phone to ring, weaving in and out of  midtown traffic, waiting for the copy machine technician to  get rid of that irritating black streak in all our reports etc.  So here’s the word—-

Experiment

Here’s  my word association...

Scientist, white coat, Bunson Burner, chemicals, lab coat, goggles, data, microscope formula ...

Well  I suspect many people might share  these words, so  the place to start is with what I mean by experimenting IT’s the  “E” in HOPE because ultimately  in order to make things different. We have to do different things because the definition of insanity is truly  doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.     In short what I’m, talking about is  recognizing the same old stuck places and  instead of  trying harder or again—trying different and being aware of the changes that brings.   When we experiment will we always be successful—yes.   What? How’s that?  If we pay attention there is a lesson in nearly every thing we do so  as long as we learn the lesson a mistake is just a step in the right direction.  So why be afraid of trying something different?   When  we think of experiments we do tend to think of paying  close atttention in short, being aware.   In our attention economy we are pulled this way and that way by media choices, travel options, food  variety, and just think back  to a time (some of you can) to a time when we only had three channels or four to choose from and that was on a clear day when your younger brother  went outside to turn the antenna  just a little to the left to get rid of the. Snow and shadows on Bonanza.  

The point is that experimental attention allows. Us to see changes and shift course.  When we do this  we can enter the maze over and over (Persistence)  knowing that this time we might find the path, but if not we will learn. Where not to go.  

The other. Thing about us being. Experimenters is that. It will allow others to  look at the world and us differently and thus  encourage others a to pay attention and act differently.  This is the kind of thing that alters circumstances in ways that may make old tools work again or make it easier to  think of. New tools we have or  the tools we know. Other people. Have.   

To summarize, if you are seeking peace and joy be willing to learn, fall down forward, get up and look around and move some more.  Don’t wish you. We’re learning hope to make things better—-know you are.   

Well that wraps up a review of  “HOPE”. 

HARD WORK

OPTIMISM

PERSISTENCE AND

EXPERIMENTING 

CHANGE YOUR WISHES INTOHOPES AND  ENCOURAGEOTHERS TO HOPE. USING THIS FRAMEWORK—-SHANGE THE. WORLD.

...AND SPEAKING OF HOPE  

It’s time for another  “pandemic Journal  (PE). Day 6 or so...  First I have to start with retraction regarding the Easter Bunny.  Am I now claiming. The Easter Bunny. Is real?  Well.... no, however, continued research  has taught me that  “Easter”  was adapted from an AngloSaxon  pagan  celebration where the goddess of Spring and fertility came along and  healed a bird to insure life would move forward.  However in doing so the bird never  quite returned to normal and was in fact transformed. Into a rabbit that continues to lay eggs.  Thus... ladies and gentlemenand kids of all age...we have the Easter. Bunny.   

So put aside all the stuff I said about the  Easter Egg. Thing being. Brought here from  Germany in the 1700s... this hopping  holiday. Has deeper roots than I was led  to believe so I guess  I should prepare to learn that the tooth fairy will soon be  terminating the process of putting money under the pillow and. Will from this time forward use Apple Pay.  

So what else is in today’s journal?  It’s the day. After Easter and  some folks had wished things would return to ‘normal” by  yesterday.  We can sit here today in a state of disappointment or we  can learn that things don’t always go like we. Expect and that it may be  time to experiment  rather than to expect when seeking peace and joy—except in one way....

Expect this blog will be here in the near future and. Its writer will  be “hoping” your saearch for peace and joy will continue then...