5 Nice Things About Today

1. It snowed!
2. I found a scientist who argued for the inclusion of emotion and motivation into the equation when we create our account of human thought. "When considering this question from an evolutionary perspective, we are forced to recognize that complex human behavior has co-evolved over time with the organism as a whole. The brain and its functions have been shaped by bodily needs and cultural rules that are quite independent of the rules of logic. The evolutionary perspective therefore suggests that it is impossible to equate "thinking" with reason. ... How we feel about what we think about and how this fits into our shifting hierarchy of desires determine the outcome of our mental activity at least as much as logic does." ~Csikszentmihalyi. *wild applause*
3. I saw a squirrel make an exquisitely graceful and effortless leap from sidewalk to garden wall. Poetry in motion.
4. A kid in the subway station was spinning with a knapsack in each hand, letting their momentum take him round and round.
5. I keep smiling. I don't think I've stopped in an hour. I feel filled with excitement and love.