I AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finding, if you're reading this, I think you're very contagious too!!!!! (In a good way)

Malign, are you reading the book too?? I started reading it yesterday:) I used to do calligraphy too!!!!!!!!!!!

OH!!!!!!!!!!

A lightbulb just went off in my head....................

Wouldn't it be so cool if we took over the world and converted everyone into arty right brained people?!!!!!!!!!!!

The world would be like a masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We could start an art movement!!!!!!!!!! ...............or else an art cult....................

Awwwwwwwwwwwww, I'm with you Invisible! Try this again: http://www.ted.com/talks/list

click on Most Favorited All Time, then click on Jill Bolte Taylor............ hope it works!

Malign, try drawing Censor upside down.... that would be interesting;)

I can't draw upside down: the blood rushes to my head. :-P

Would it be the cult of exclamation points, Invizzy?

Now I'm picturing your head lit up from the inside ... Which might make a cool artwork, by the way.

Never say "I can't" (Ha, I do it alllllllllll the time!!!). That was the one rule we had to keep in our art room last year!

The cult of being right brained and banning the ability to be left brained and exclamation points aswel. I use lots of exclamation points when I'm in a good mood.

That is a good idea Malign, Now I'm gonna do a portrait of me later with a lit up head!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I can just imagine a roomful of teenagers moaning "I can't!" to every assignment. Okay, I'll stop.

"I think I can, I think I can, ..." I used to love the Little Red Engine.

That's a lot of work for just one cult. Can't we just stick to one thing and do it well? Plus, if you completely ban my left-brain, I'm going to be unable to talk. (Stop thinking it's still a good idea.)

Sweet, I'd love to see what you do with the portrait. :-)

If it turns out good I'll make it my next avatar!!!!!!!!

BUT

If it turns out bad, noone will ever see it..................

Someday I will convert the world to vegetarianism and right brainedness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aw, you don't really want a world where we're all the same.

Now, it wouldn't be bad if we all took the time to grow up a little, and get back in touch with our child parts. :-)

With whom you seem to already be well-connected. :-P

Yeah well, it's my last year as a teenager so I figure I might aswel be as childish as possible. This time next year I will be an adult, a Lady!!

A Lady with a capital 'L'! !!!

Are you going to marry a peer? :-)

What's a peer? as in a friend? (peer-pressure?!!)

Well, I thought, to the British, a peer was a member of the House of Lords ... Of course, you're not British. :-)

Oh, I didn't know that... Nah, I'm gonna marry a rockstar!!!!!!!!!! I just have to find one first... Maybe I'll never get married. . All I know is that I want to drive a hippy van someday, like the one in scooby doo;)

Well, find one, find one you like, find one who likes you back ... It's a longer process than you seem to think. :-)

Yah, being happy is more important than being married. Sometimes you get lucky, and they happen together.

That's an interesting dream ... All it takes is some paint, and a van, though. It's achievable.

Unfortunately I can't drive....and I don't think it would be wise for me to ever learn. I'm very accident prone...

Well, okay, then, but now you have to find a rock star who you like who likes you who'll drive you places. You're at risk of running out! :-)

If I can learn to draw without having accidents, my guess is that you can learn to drive without accidents. Maybe you need left-brain exercises the way I need right-brain ones.

Maybe you're right. Maybe I could learn to ride a motor bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's a good idea!!!!!!!!!! That could be my special talent!!! drawing is a lot easier and less dangerous than driving.....

Yeah, well ... My brother used to work in a hospital emergency room. They used to call motorcycles "donor-cycles", because death by head injury makes you an ideal organ donor.

Please take care? :-)

Easier? I drive every day, but I have only just started drawing. Less dangerous? My mind is still blown by it. ;-)

Don't worry, I'm full of talk but I'll probably never do half the things I say! I have no desire to learn to drive right now so I'm ok for the moment.

I know. ;-)

It's wonderful to have all your opportunities in front of you. Just to know that you could do them. It makes it fun for us old folks to talk to you, because of that. ('finding' may hurt me for including her in that thought...)

It's also what makes it sad for us that there are times when you lose sight of all the possibilities there are out there for you.

You're hardly that old...!!! It sounds like you're still young at heart! You dedicated this blog to her so I don't think she'll hurt you this time...

Sometimes it seems like there are no possibilities...

Heh. Sometimes you make me feel old. ;-)

I am looking after my cardiac age, yes. Trying to see the world through younger eyes, again. It takes an effort, sometimes, but it's worth it, every time.

I know, Blossom (and I'm just going to pre-emptively start calling you that), everyone has times when it seems like there's nowhere to go. And some of us more than most; it's called 'depression'. I was hoping you could mark this moment in time in your memory, to use when the depression starts to tell you those lies. It's the kind of fight where you have to make your own weapons, after all: all the action happens inside your own head.

It's weird but sometimes when I feel really depressed I just want to stay that way..

Sure, I know. It's telling you that that's the only way to be.

But it lies. :-)

And I hope I'm not bringing you down just by talking about it?

No, you're not bringing me down.. My supply of coke just ran out....