When You go Beyond What’s Possible

(Now imagine a much smaller, much paler person doing this in her bedroom mirror)

Realizing that you’ve done more than what should be possible is one of the best feelings in the world.

A few days ago I was playing squash with a friend. On one water break we paused to watch two guys on another court; at least one of them was on the Queen’s squash team, and although he seemed to be beating his partner they were playing really well.

They were on a higher level than I have ever played at.

My friend and I went back to playing, but soon we saw that the two guys had finished and for some reason they had walked down to watch us. They stood outside the glass and seemed to be commenting on what we were doing.

Having them stand there, watching, talking, changed everything.

On the Genius of Children and Monsters

To summarize the following article, a 12-year old boy got published when he recommended that his father, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, use pictures of Dungeons and Dragons monsters to resolve a question in psychology.

Do people look at eyes or faces?

Grocery Store War

I dreamt last night of a grocery store war

When you were my partner and we stalked the floor

Slipping down aisles, ducking below displays

You a sometime rogue and a sometime mage

Swift to ambush the enemy, or to raise your hands

And with verbal effects take your magical stand

Until we saw another pair in the deadly game

Mirror-made nemeses, even stealing our names