It’s no secret that we are not only what we eat (most of us are either really salty, or really sweet) but we are also what we think. Our thoughts drive our emotions, our attitudes, and our outlooks, as surely as night follows day. Our thoughts are the keys that turn over the ignition of our mind. I love metaphors; if thoughts are the keys to the ignition, then metaphors are the wiring to a fancier car.

Metaphors can change the current in which your thoughts are flowing. As I was thinking about thoughts, thinking about metaphors distracted me from thinking about thoughts, which only serves to prove my point. Which I’ve forgotten.

Oh, yeah! Thoughts. I was lying in bed this morning, still caught in that delightful state between waking and going back to sleep, and something kept niggling at my mind. It was something vaguely upsetting. It centered around all the crud we have to listen to from various factions, and the fact that no one can agree on what is wrong. Is the country being run by jerks, or should it be taken over by a new set of jerks? As I listen to people argue their various points, I realize there are some I agree with, and some I don’t. If I speak out for the ones with which I have sympathy, I invariably get a comment from someone that my views are not in sympathy with some group’s plight. Or that I don’t get the big picture. It’s true; I rarely get the big picture, and as I get older, I don’t really care about the big picture.

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