We have all spent time sitting in a doctor’s or dentist’s office, waiting for an exam, a diagnosis, or test results for yourself or a loved one.
What do you remember about waiting rooms as a child? What’s it like for you to spend time in a waiting room today? Why, when, and where do you remember waiting?
Webster’s defines superstition as a belief held despite evidence to the contrary. As Eurocentric beings, we usually dismiss superstitions as unscientific.
But in other cultures, dreams, visions, people, places, and events are seen as omens of good or bad luck.
Did you harbor any superstitions as a child? Do you have any now, or do you know of any held by family or friends?
Sound plays a major role in our lives. Sound gives us early warnings, enables verbal communication, and affords us the pleasure of music. But what about the absence of sound – silence?
What impressions, emotions, or memories do you carry about silence? Did you fear it as a child? Now do you seek it as an opportunity for peace and contemplation?
Or, in the company of others, do you sometimes talk simply to avoid silence? Or conversely does the compulsive talk of others put your nerves on edge?
President John F Kennedy delivers a major speech for civil rights. A few months later he is assassinated in downtown Dallas. Martin Luther King Jr leads the March on Washington. America becomes fully involved in the Vietnam conflict. Dr Michael DeBakey implants the first artificial human heart. The Supreme Court bans required prayers and Bible readings in public schools. Charade; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; and The Great Escape premier at the movies.
Where were you in 1963 and how were you affected by the events of that memorable year?
From shamanism to science, from plants to placebos, we humans look beyond our bodies to cure illness, ease psychic pain, or alter reality. And as we age, we turn more frequently to pharmacies and prescriptions.
What lurks in your medicine chest? Is it empty or overflowing with little plastic bottles? Do you feel secure as you swallow your morning dose, or do you curse your fate? And have you ever followed Jefferson Airplane’s advice to “Feed your head”?
FCC Commissioner Newton Minow once labeled television as “a vast wasteland.” Journalist Marie Winn wrote a critique of TV in her 1977 book The Plug-In Drug. Is TV merely a “wasteland” or a “drug?” Perhaps not. What were two or three shows that proved inspirational as you grew from adolescence to adulthood? What about these shows inspired you?
Or maybe televised inspiration hit you earlier or later in life and caused you to think about changing direction. Let us know!
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