There are just some things that produce natural challenges. I will resist all the urges to refer to things such as getting women to ignore shoe sales and getting men to make a quick trip to the home improvement store. These are just too easy.
Speaking a foreign language has some natural challenges. Dutch (a language [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Natural Challenges
Posted in John's Thoughts on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Swimming Upstream
Posted in John's Thoughts on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am impressed by the dedication of salmon. They fight enormous odds and expend great energy to swim upstream to spawn. And after the do, they usually die. Do they know this instinctively? If they do, what causes them to make the effort?
Learning another language is often like that. Especially when you are not 20-something [...]
Jello
Posted in John's Thoughts on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What shape is Jello? I’m not talking about the institutional kind that you can leave in the Arizona desert in the summer. You know the rubbery kind that stays in cubes in 100+ degree weather. I’m not sure that qualifies as Jello.
Jello, the kind we had as a kid, is just one step up from [...]
