Click on ‘write’

I think I’ve said this before, but I love clicking on ‘write’ in the WordPress toolbar. It’s as if it’s an entre into writing, that just by clicking on the word, I could automatically feel the pulse of words. It’s as if this empty field is a portal that compels/requires/forces me to write one word after another.

My son is sitting on the floor, flipping through The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond. I don’t know what it is about the pages of that book (maybe the squeakiness of the cover?) that keeps him just sitting there and feeling the pages.

Yesterday was the first day he actually selected a book for me to read to him. Of course, it was Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you Hear? That’s his favorite. This morning it was this barnyard puppet book, and he handed it to me twice in a row.

Yesterday, I read this article on math in the New Yorker. The scientist featured in the article is researching to what extent our brains are wired for math. He’s finding we are not wired for math the way we are wired for language, understanding spatial relationships, approximate quantities. He’s finding that we have ro learn complex computation, and how we learn it (or, where in our brains these processes are located) is different depending upon the situation in which we learn these skills. Fascinating.

The scientist also says that our brains have developed an associative quality, a quality that evolved over time to help us survive. I think of blogs, the internet in general, when links from one site to another present a tactile way of seeing the associative way we think…Which means, I suppose the internet was being born thousands of years ago…