Labels aren’t for lazy people. I am lazy so I like to generalize. Below are pictures of birds I have taken at the NWR where I volunteer. Some people study the birds shape, size and habits in order to label them with their correct or even scientific name.
Whereas, I too see color, shaper, size and habits, but instead of placing them in a category, wading bird, shore bird-I take the lazy approach. They are all birds.
I am a volunteer and today I answered the phone and a woman said, “There is a manatee dead on the beach.”
I said, “call CROW.”
She said, “The manatee is dead, not injured.”
CROW is a clinic for rehabilitation of wildlife, but she did dial a National Wildlife
Refuge. Not a National Dead Life Refuge…so, this is a classic example of calling the kettle black.
There is no creative way to do 7 loads of laundry. My husband has a severe reaction to poison ivy. In less than a year he has had to go on steroids, three times.
So, just in case we have an oil called urushiol on any of the bedding, clothes, dog beds, blanket, or dog. I washed everything in our trailer.
To use my super power to solve the problem of living on an island with an abundance of poison ivy, I created a vision board and I checked to see where we were on the waitlist for housing.
We applied to three places,,,number 30, 27 and still waiting to hear back.
I am taking a happiness course from (coursera.org) Presented by Laurie Santos, ‘The Science of Well-Being’
The homework suggest you try and use one of your top 5 strengths everyday. And they gave the following suggestion for creativity.
‘For example, you might write a blog post that is unique because it is entirely gibberish. That’s not going to be useful, so it would not be considered creative”
So, I am going to use my “Judgment.” And apply the VIA Institute on Characters definition. “Thinking things through and examining them from all sides; not jumping to conclusions, being able to change one’s mind in light of evidence, weighing all evidence fairly.”
A blog written all gibberish might be useful to someone who wants to blog, but is not confident. The run across said, ‘gibberish blog’ and think, if someone can publish a blog all in gibberish, maybe I can blog.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. The author believes creativity has to benefit self or someone else to be valid.
I say, that’s gibberish. If you believe what you are doing adds value to you or someone else, don’t let a stranger be the one to validate your creativity.
Today I used my judgement and my creativity by blogging and creating a tastefully presented breakfast.
Blueberries, banana, pink pineapple and strawberries.
Melody is fostering her niece while her sister, Captain Opal Erickson, is deployed to Kuwait. A chance meeting at work with Clayton, a const...
