The Laws of Physics

A storytelling podcast we like to listen to, The Moth, poses questions to it's audience before their live storytelling events.  One of the recent podcasts had the question, "what would you change if you could suspend the laws of physics for one day?"  

I would allow myself to 'scrub' backward through time as though my life were a movie.  Obviously you can't work forward since it hasn't happened, but I would like to see with an experienced eye the moments of my past.  Most of all though I want to know what my first conscious and unconscious thoughts were.  When did they take place?  If you don't have a language what do you think?  Do our thoughts take place as images?  I wonder what an unborn baby that has no images to references thinks of.  If the memory has not been developed then what does one think about? In order to understand oneself one has to start at the beginning.  

Life experiences

The other day I was thinking about experiences I have had in life that in would want the boys to have. I decided to make a list of these with the full understanding that not completing this list in no way signifies an incomplete life. I may even include items on here that I have yet to experience with the hope that when I do I can share them with the boys.

-Travel by yourself to a destination where you know no one.

-Get lost on your a trip and discover something unexpected.

-Cook something using one or more ingredients that you cultivated and grew.

-Create something with your hands.

-Create something with your mind (poem, song, story, etc.).

-Have your heart broken.

-Get a straight blade shave.

-Go to an enormous arena or stadium rock concert.

-Go to a small intimate concert.

-Go to the symphony.

That is all for now. I may return to add items as they come to me.