Resigned, to my life at 54

Well, (a deep, dark hole, as we know) I'm 54 today. It's my birthday.

Try as I might to be chipper and all, I feel predominately portly, ineffective, lackluster, and to top it all off, resigned.

Now that I've got my melodrama out of the way; happy birthday March.

 I'll be posting another revelation about singulation here soon too. (Remember Singulation?) I'm reading a book about Color, and in the first chapter she talks about the electrons getting hit with light and how they become something else at that point, through a process called "transitions". Sounds like another word for singulation. More on this later.

Time to go out for a walk, with the dogs, before it rains again.

Erin doesn't really like to dance...

But in my dream last night, I had woken to music on my radio, and had risen to get up and dance a little...it was a great tune; Spencer Davis Group's Gimme Some Lovin'...As I was dancing around, I saw Erin get up out of bed too, and in a one motion silent movement, she shuffled over to where I was and slowly started to join me in dancing. She was a bit thinner than she is now, and she was older too, maybe after or in college?, but she and I were either living together or she was over visiting. She's always said she didn't like dancing, and/or really didn't know how-to, dance,  but she was holding her own now, mostly doing the foot shuffling/stomping body swaying type of  dancing - kinda like how I dance, but with more fot action and no arm waving. I was proud of her just getting up like that to dance with me, and it was also just kinda cool to be dancing around with your daughter, to Spencer Davis...

Looking at 4MAT, again

Thinking about paradigms and ways, frameworks, structures, that embrace the way we perceive, think, process, design.

I thought of 4MAT, again... (well, really, it was an article in the New Yorker that struck my thoughts...the article was about the theater, philosophy, writing, etc. of artist William Kentridge. He was talking about his early theater training and how 'There was this theater school I'd heard about in Paris, L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq, whose approach was very different from traditional forms of theater training. Instead of starting with a text, Lecoq started with movement as the basis."

Somehow, that reminded me of 4MAT, and how that design philosophy says that we begin with experience (one could also say movement too) as how we 'process' our experiences. I also begun thinking about my past training with 4MAT because work hired a ID and asessment person to come in for the last faculty retreat and her book mentioned Kolb, which mae me think about the system again. I heard that her workshop wasn't very engaging, or ? - in any case, I'm thinking about my own knowledge and training.
(A big plus in my book is that 4MAT is also very artistic and looks pretty! LOL)