{"id":1435,"date":"2012-06-10T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2012-06-10T08:29:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T12:29:11","slug":"hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You can get into a really weird hard-to-describe mental state by meditating on the nature of how you move a finger, how it starts as some subconscious thought and ends up as a physical motion.  But since you can feel the finger move, since it is constantly providing sensory feedback on its state, it feels like the thought to move a finger lives inside<\/em> the finger itself, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n

If you look at your hand from an early age, you can also contemplate the slowness of aging.  I look at the back of my hand and think, hmmm, someday it will be old and wrinkled.  What will that be like?  I cannot imagine it now, yet I know it will be.  I don’t even remember how it used to look, even though I know I looked at it even when I was in preschool.  So why can’t I remember how it looked in preschool?  Because the change was too slow to see.  (Like those face videos, someone should do a video like "Bob takes a picture of his hand everyday for 20 years.")  Someday my hand will even completely decompose.  I won’t be observing it then, but that will be it’s ultimate fate, which is an odd thought.  Sorry hand. <\/p>\n

If you look at the hand for too long, like thinking about the sound of a word for too long, it starts to seem really funny.  It’s a square of meat with fleshy sticks coming out. <\/p>\n

If I made myself blog everyday, this is probably the sort of stuff I’d write about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can get into a really weird hard-to-describe mental state by meditating on the nature of how you move a finger, how it starts as some subconscious thought and ends up as a physical motion.  But since you can feel the finger move, since it is constantly providing sensory feedback […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[540],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7gI4B-hands","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}