Room to Think

Let me start out with this.                      That's right people, there are Segway tours in Florence. AND I'm over 18. So I can ride one all by myself. So I did some more research and found this pixellated lie: Small print: 1 hour=18 Euros This ad is design genius.  Because the things that really are offered "free of charge" are the maps and the helmets, and they live in the "Free of charge" oval.  You have to  pay   for the segway rental.  That's why it lives outside the "free" oval.   Pure. Marketing. Genius.   Lure in the stupid Americans like me. 18 Euros an hour isn't so much...but on a student's budget? Yeah... I'll do it someday. Bike Rentals are much cheaper.  They're 10 Euros a day for students.  I can rock yellow, can't I? On another note...I received some bad news last Friday. We all know I inten...

This post was supposed to be finished shortly after I posted Part 1...but obviously that didn't happen, and I apologize for making you all check back repeatedly to see if I had written more. (don't try to hide it, my page views have been going up! I see you lurking.) So without further ado, I give you, Part 2: ******************** In Part 1 , I *strongly* suggested that you all watch Diana Nyad talk about her world-record-breaking swim that she attempted (and failed) last summer at age 60. I envy that woman's motivation.  I doubt I'd even consider a swim like that plausible for myself at that age. If I were her, I'd be thinking, "Oh, that's too bad, I failed my "life's dream", but that's that.  I'm 60 years old, and I gave it my best. The sea gods just hate me is all.  Perhaps I'll try skydiving.  It seems less intimidating..." But because I envy her motivation, I want to uncover what it is about her mindset t...

So I think today's TEDtalk discussion is going to come in two parts. Last night I got caught up watching a TEDtalk that Diana Nyad was giving about a world-record-breaking swim she was training to take at age 60. ...age 60... I'm sorry, but does this woman look 60 years old to you? She definitely doesn't to me.  She's got blonde hair and tanned skin. (that tanned skin is from hours on hours of swim training in the caribbean, but still.  60?!) She looks fantastic. At 60 years of age, Diana Nyad was experiencing a sort of late-life crisis.  She was thinking too much about her past, and with the death of her mother (age 82), she began thinking too much about her own future.  She didn't exist enough in the present, and her solution to bring her back to the present was "to chase an elevated dream, an extreme dream, something that would require utter conviction and unwavering passion something that would make me be my best self in every aspect of my...

Two things:       Drawing once a week is hard.       And I dearly hate my scanner. Happy Sunday, everyone!  I hope you all got out of bed at a decent hour!