Recreation is a word to which we’ve assigned a cultural meaning. It usually indicates fun or leisurely activities. Recreation centers are places to relax and exercise. In some schools, it has replaced the word “recess.” But recreation, or the act of re-creation, might give us more than what we’ve taken from the word. There are many ways to re-create one’s self. Play, something that usually happens during re-creation, can sometimes allow for healing and rebuilding.

I was at a class on meditation once. The instructor started by saying that meditation was easy. That if anyone in the room was intimidated by the idea of meditating, he was about to tell us something that would make the process much more simple. “Every thought that crosses your mind,” he said, “can be labelled as past, present, or future. Past thoughts are memories of things that have happened, and future thoughts are thoughts about what is going to happen.

In my Twitter profile, my bio line is “noticing brilliance since ’85.” People use this word as slang sometimes to mean “cool” or “smart” or “interesting.” My understanding of the word is a bit more specific and aligned to the literal definition of the word. To be brilliant is to emit light, to be bright, or to be radiant. There are so many things that I would classify as brilliant that may not seem particularly “smart.

Give a person a fish and you’ll feed them for a day. Teach a person to fish and you’ll feed them for a lifetime. Give a person a rod and they might catch more fish. Teach a person how to think in creative patterns and the world might get a more efficient rod. Give a person a computer and they can track their fish consumption. Teach a person how to code and they might create a global supply chain to feed others.

+++ title = “10” date = 2018 +++ Both Snapchat and YouTube are video sites. Both allow every day users to upload original content. And there are some differences between the two, like, the videos on Snapchat can only be 15 seconds and disappear after a while, etc. But there’s a big difference in the design of these sites/apps that is worth noting. When you load YouTube, the first thing you see is a bunch of content to consume that might be relevant to your interests.