top: a Ted Trimmer Sunset
"Haku" Lei (on the head)
Boundary. See it?
Strutting Egret (at the busy Hilton beachfront)
"I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it." - Steven Wright
"He who knows best knows how little he knows." - Thomas Jefferson
"I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other." - Rainer Maria Rilke
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CHILDLIKE TRAITS ARE THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH!
Here are the "childlike" traits that the late anthropologist Ashley Montagu claimed would preserve youthfulness in adults:
· The need for love
· Friendship
· Sensitivity
· The need to think soundly
· The need to know
· The need to learn
· The need to work
· The need to organize
· Curiosity
· A sense of wonder
· Playfulness
· Imagination
· Creativity
· Open-mindedness
· Flexibility
· Experimental-mindedness
· Explorativeness
· Resiliency
· A sense of humor
· Joyfulness
· Laughter and tears
· Optimism
· Honesty and trust
· Compassionate intelligence
· Dance
· Song
Source: "Growing Young" by Ashley Montagu (Bergin & Garvey, 1988).
10 comments:
I want to grow young!
I agree with Ashley Montagu, as a writer we need to have all those childlike traits to creat great works.
To Ashley Montagu's list I would add an aversion to routine, or a willingness to leave the comfort of the known which, in my mind, are both slightly different from some of the other enumerated traits.
Hello Cloudia ! Hello HawaÏ !
Sorry no time enough this morning to try to translate what you have written (seems very interesting).
Your first picture is very very beautiful. I had to clean the romm friends because this evening my cousin Françoise comes to visit me. Her name is Montagu!!!
The sunset is stunning and all the shots are great. I liked the childhood traits.
all bloody brilliant, as my pals in ol blighty would say... thx cloudia
I do believe I will live forever ! Wonderful Cloudia :)
I'm happy with my collection of pebbles - I keep it where Steve Wright keeps his shells.
Aloha Barbara: Your opinion carries weight here in the Spiral. Thanks for sharing!
Chris: Yes! Aversion to empty routine married to love of it's better side . . .
Bonjour Claude: Quel coincidence!
Thanks, Carver ;-)
Laughing Wolf! You so fascinating in your lupine magisty. . .
You GO, I ponder!!
Dave: Ah, you're a true collector!
BTW my e-mails to you get bounced back. Thanks for visiting, Sir
WOW! to that first photo - and yes, I see the boundary.
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