text: “Flow Chart of Divergent Distracted Thinking. ”
[A chart with three columns designed to represent textually how my mom and I communicate sometimes.]
(a) dialogue, (b) internal thought, (c) internal reaction to internal thought
“We’re going to a 50th wedding anniversary tonight. This couple’s kids live all over ¹ but they’re all in town this weekend…
1. they probably couldn’t stand their parents → 2. no, don’t think like that.”
i published this along with other excerpts from my current journal at the traveler’s notebook