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rted a conservative pedophile for Senate.\u00a0 Well, all I can say is, “You’re welcome.”<\/p>\nWell, well, well.\u00a0 It has been a long time since my last post.\u00a0 I am proud to say that my last blog, back in June of 2016, was instrumental in the wave of votes that kept Donald Trump out of the White House.\u00a0 Imagine the disaster that would have been.\u00a0 By now, he probably would have lowered the level of public discourse with his comments and tweets that….oh, who knows…he’d probably have retweeted anti-Muslim hate videos and supported a conservative pedophile for Senate.\u00a0 Well, all I can say is, “You’re welcome.”<\/p>\n
So how have I been spending the last year and a half?\u00a0 Pretty much the same as before, but after working on my book, I was kind of written out for a while.\u00a0 Something I have been doing most recently is working on a jigsaw puzzle of Van Gogh’s lovely painting of a Paris cafe at night.\u00a0 Three thoughts accompany me as I slowly construct the puzzle from the thousand pieces that started as a pile on my table.<\/p>\n
First thought: If you want to become awed and amazed by an artist’s work with color, get a jigsaw puzzle of their work.\u00a0 Each little piece is just a splash of one or a number of colors.\u00a0 Gazing at the piece alone, you can never quite gather what it depicts.\u00a0 However, when I insert the splash of colors into its rightful place, the greater image materializes.\u00a0 Working such a puzzle allows me to walk with the artist in his own creative process and, with a guy like Van Gogh, note how quickly he must have created a deeply evocative image with just a few brush strokes.\u00a0 Try it.\u00a0 It is very relaxing.<\/p>\n
Second thought: If you want to deepen your Myers-Briggs Sensing function (or simply satisfy its needs), work a jigsaw puzzle.\u00a0 First, it is a feast for the senses – more specifically, vision.\u00a0 I have said to myself many, many times during the past few weeks how blessed I am to have sight, so I can enjoy this process.\u00a0 Also, the careful organization that a jigsaw puzzle requires promotes the strengths of Sensing.\u00a0 Detail, care, organization – all are there to be massaged.\u00a0 Last night I took all the orange and golden pieces and set to work on the middle portion of the picture.\u00a0 I was so happy to have the available pieces right there in front of me for easy pickins.<\/p>\n
Third thought: Many times, I would take a piece that looked like it belonged\u00a0right there<\/em>, only to find that it was too big for the space provided.\u00a0 There was a part of me that wanted to\u00a0jam<\/em> it in so it would fit.\u00a0 But obviously, you can’t do that.\u00a0 This put me in mind of people who willfully refuse to see what is right there in front of them and insist on jamming a piece into place that manifestly does not belong.\u00a0 Hmm, seems like I started this post with just this topic!\u00a0 Anit-abortion pedophile for Senate, anybody?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, well, well.\u00a0 It has been a long time since my last post.\u00a0 I am proud to say that my last blog, back in June of 2016, was instrumental in the wave of votes that kept Donald Trump out of the White House.\u00a0 Imagine the disaster that would have been.\u00a0 By now, he probably would Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}