After many months of resuscitating an old garden behind our house and up ending old fence posts to start building a playhouse, my husband and his trusty team of archaeologist trainees have uncovered some interesting finds. My daughter reported that "they are from the 1920s, I scanned them into the computer and it told me." Regardless of their origin or heritage, they sure start the kids wondering, how did they get there? who lived here before us? what did our neighbourhood look like back then?
We talk to ourselves everyday, all day (and night) for the whole of our lives. We started talking to ourselves before we knew we were a self, we forget what we said because we forget everything from before...when we were too young and busy developing our brain to remember those early years. There is still lingering residue of long forgotten conversations I have had with myself as a toddler sitting around in the crevices...sloughing off occasionally into words I tell myself still. We talk non-stop, and not just with dialogue. Our goosebumps communicate to us, our tingly feelings, our neurons, our peripheal vision. They are all submitting data into our self and expecting us to react, respond or all to often, expecting what they are sending us will be ignored. After all that talking, you'd think we'd know what we think about most things, but occasionally we are stumped. Unless we stop what we are doing and really concentrate sometimes that voice(s) ...
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