Thoughts for the week! Paint Party Friday

Thoughts for the week!

 I have so much art in progress but both digital and painting but I found this full post in my drafts and thought I'd share it since this week has flown by!  I'm curious to know if anyone has read the book "David and Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell?

 Years ago a friends step daughter was struggling with science. My friend suggested she befriend  someone who gets high marks! I found her advice quite foreign. My mind doesn't even work that way. I'd have suggested a tutor, help from the teacher rather than soliciting a friend to do their work.  In fact that statement always bothered me.   Probably because I never understood that train of thought until this week!

While promoting his book David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell mentioned how a third of the highly successful entrepreneurs are often dyslexic. Learning vital qualities for entrepreneurial success early in life......grade one, befriending the smartest kid, learning to delegate and negotiate early, having people  do their work for them. Skills they nurture compensate for their condition, sometimes leading to a life of extraordinary accomplishment. I'm now  feeling less ambiguous about my friends response twenty years ago. Maybe that's was how she coped too! 

I find it fascinating to be able to change my mind and perspective no matter how old I am. It certainly pays to be open minded! I look forward to eventually reading David and Goliath!

How about you, have you come to a realization, changed perspectives   or found answers  years after the fact?

Hypocrisy alert!

Not everything is easy to accept!

 Incandescence

I knew you over fifty years 

I loved what you had to share

We turned you off  automatically

or parents would stop and glare

You worked perfectly for decades

We dimmed you, to fool around

Didn't have to replace you very often

or call hazmat if you fell to the ground

They say the new ones are more efficient

in the end there will be  less to pay

Sadly incandescent they've banned you 

The dreaded  ugly CFL's are here to stay

I'm not as comfortable with them
  they don't last as long as first implied

The CFL  bulbs are so expensive

I  fear the powers that be, may have lied

Now I have to drive dead bulbs 

where things with mercury go

I hope they're being recycled

But we'll never really know

When we see new creatures

sporting five heads and sixteen toes

ears like califlower, 

one eye upon their nose

We'll know for sure they've fibbed

you should have never been laid to rest

because anything  without mercury

really would have served us best!

RIP Incandescent..... 

so glad I have a few of you left!
Even if it's not politically correct
I don't mind paying for the luxury
of a bulb without mercury! 

However I reserve the right to change my mind!!

 This is my contribution for Paint Party Friday!