I had a wonderful "paid professional friend" for a while who commented that my mind was like a Calder mobile, its drifting elements being my various passions and interests. The interest-du-jour was whichever element had drifted to the foreground.
I found this metaphor enormously reassuring, because up to that point I'd just called myself flakey.
In sharing this insight with friends, I've concluded that Calder-Mobile-Mind is a trait I have in common with everyong I find interesting, and it's a source of intermittent despair to all of us.
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Date: 2007-07-27 04:19 pm (UTC)I found this metaphor enormously reassuring, because up to that point I'd just called myself flakey.
In sharing this insight with friends, I've concluded that Calder-Mobile-Mind is a trait I have in common with everyong I find interesting, and it's a source of intermittent despair to all of us.