Reflections in a dog park

It was quite funny, this morning i set my alarm for 9am, pumped for a massive sleep in. But alas, there were two main factors that got in my way:

1. My new curtains (not block out, designed so i don't sleep in when i need to get up early)
2. My sister coming in at 7:30 to proclaim her annoyance at being up so early.

I must remember these factors for future sleep ins!!

So, anyway, to make up for all this extra time, i took my dog up to the dog park... he is now a brown retriever... rather than a golden one! Whilst i was wandering around, i couldn't help but slip into a reflective train of thought... You see, it is my last shift at the pharmacy i've been working at for over 4 years today... And to tell you the truth, it's strange. More so when i think of where i was as a person when i started 4 years ago.. and where i am now.

I won't go all 'diary entry ohmygosh i've changed blah' on you,  but i'd like to say that it's amazing how time just goes. Flows even. And subtle changes work constantly, until you stop and realise how different things are now compared to back then.  I find it so interesting that we can each establish moments in time from our own experiences and label them 'now', 'present', 'then'. Maybe i am sounding like a philosophy major, but who's to determine that my 'now' isn't someone else's yesterday?

Enjoy my Saturday musings... let me know what you think...  now i must depart and get ready for work! Xx

Neuroaesthetics

This is definitely food for thought- it's about art and neuroaesthetics, called the "peak shift effect". Could poetry and literature be in the same line?

Check out Psychology Today's "Unlocking the Mysteries of the Artistic Mind"...

......and listen to ABC National's All In the Mind Podcast called: "The Marco Polo of Neuroscience".  ( Natasha Mitchell has interviewed many of the world’s most celebrated thinkers on the mind over the past decade, and one the most creative is acclaimed neuroscientist and polymath of the brain Professor V.S Ramachandran.)

So fascinating... Professor Ramachandran speaks about the neuroscience of the metaphor too... !