The Wild Mind, August 2008
- Cat, “The Wild Mind”, Thanksgiving 2007
If you stop in, I’d love to know what you thought, who you are and what, if anything resonated with you. Don’t be afraid to say hi and check back. Often my best posts come from connections I’ve made with things you, the reader, said that resonated with me. It is this exchange that I look forward to having with you!
TheWildMind
Revised October 2009
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October 15, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Brian Wake
My own eyes opened when I explored this website. What strong topics – Hope to jump in soon! Thanks! Arrrgh!
October 26, 2008 at 12:03 am
Jack the Sparrow
You have so much to offer, and, me thinks, just a conduit for it to flow.
November 20, 2008 at 5:25 pm
jeff
Cool blog site! I will most certainly be back.
November 21, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Kip
Concerning the entry entitled “Meet the Wild Mind,” and I can’t imagine anyone who wouldn’t want to, I’m afraid I feel compelled to ask whether you really are a ‘random wanderer,’ as you have suggested. It seems to me this is a misnomer, or merely faulty syntax. A random wanderer, to my way of thinking, is one who randomly wanders … either physically or mentally. You seem to be alluding to a wandering in the mental realm. But I don’t think that your efforts to make sense of the senseless or de-sense-itizing the sensible would necessarily characterize your wanderings as random. On the contrary, I would suggest that the propensities of your mind to latch onto certain subjects (in which you recognize sense or the lack thereof) are reflective of a very specific and finite range of concerns particular to your mind; within that specific and finite range, there may be a bit of randomness at play, but your wanderings are not purely and strictly random because I would venture to say that your mind is making considered and deliberate choices to wander only upon the well beaten path where you are most comfortable. If your wanderings were truly random, you would be susceptible to finding yourself confronting (and entertaining) a subject that your own mind would never willingly confront or entertain. Has that happened? If so, bring those on … those are the ones I’d like to hear about. But how could it happen? You are not capable of randomizing your own choice of topics, unless you have a wheel of fortune you spin for a subject (but even then, it would have been your own mind that had devised the wheel and chosen the subjects). No, I’m afraid that for true randomness, the choice of subjects must come from without, and not from you. And that’s all I have to say about that.
November 23, 2008 at 10:29 am
cabsplace
Hmmm, Kip~
You make a great point about the authentic randomness or, rather, the lack of authentic randomness of my blog topics. Agreed. To be completely random, if we accept your definition of random, then the ideas cannot be my own. You’re on…and anyone else who would like to try submit suggestions for topics. Give me your ideas for blog posts and we’ll go with it.
P.S. Of course you could always just start your own blog, but what fun would that be? This is more like that communication activity where you look at the picture and have to give me good enough directions so that I can replicate the picture exactly without ever seeing it. Only in this case, neither of us have the picture.
Wow! What fun! I’m creating a new page just for this experiment. We’ll see if it takes. If it does…it will all be your fault. LOL!
CAB
November 24, 2008 at 8:43 am
Kip
Okay, Cat, Ms. Wild Mind, Ma’am,
Regarding your solicitation for ‘random’ ideas.
How about pondering the not-too-distant time when all the senior posts in our government are occupied by women and the emasculating effect this will have on the preponderance of males remaining in the House and Senate? This seems to me inevitable, given the evidence that we seem to be growing more enlightened with each new election year, and given that deep down we all sense the superior wisdom of women in the areas of interpersonal dynamics that characterize so much of politics, foreign relations, etc.
How about pondering the place of Art in our society? Versus so much of what passes for Art nowadays. (… yes, this subject is old and tired, but your observations will undoubtedly be fresh.)
How about pondering the intelligent and stimulating programming that will replace reality TV and moronic sitcoms?
How about the Wild Mind’s response to a known sex offender moving in just a couple doors away from where she and her four children live?
That should be enough randomness to get you started. Take it away, Catwoman!!
December 8, 2008 at 7:46 pm
whenwewere25
Dont worry re: single. It will come, yes it will!!!!
January 28, 2009 at 9:51 am
Kip
I tried to inject randomness into your musings, but you have eschewed all suggestions. I guess you just don’t want to be truly random. But wait … can specific suggestions forwarded by an external source qualify as random? I’m not sure they can. I mean, you would be deliberately electing to write a few words on a topic that another person has proposed, admittedly a topic you did not know of before receiving it, but can that really be considered random? I don’t know. I am all randomed out. Hey … that word’s starting to sound funny. Never mind.
February 8, 2009 at 11:22 am
Clark Bunch
Thanks for the comments you left Cat. I went looking for a 3 column theme. With all the stuff I wanted to add in the sidebar, it was getting very long. I wanted to keep the most interesting stuff near the top.
March 24, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Carter Fitchett
Hi Cab, Love the new picture!! Are you still dating the guy you mentioned, if so it definately agrees with you!
March 24, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Cat
Carter,
Which guy?
And…I wasn’t dating anyone when these pics were taken.
So, maybe that’s what is agreeing with me.
Cat