Sports Dr recommends no Ultimate for my knees this season. Aquafitness, pilates, yoga and my exciting programme of squats.

Time travel.

The second thesis I didn't write for my Masters in Philosophy was about how time changes us; me-2008 is related to me-1995 but importantly different. The third thesis I did actually finish for my Masters in Philosophy was about how art represents (we pretend). I riffed on themes in Mimesis As Make-Believe by Kendall Walton. A few weeks ago I was checking the VUW Philosophy website thinking that after Iris starts school perhaps there's a course I could do some tutoring for and be able to play Ultimate with the Vic teams during school hours as well as earn a little money. To my surprise I discovered there's a mini-conference celebrating Walton's work at VUW tomorrow. Me-2008 is going because I feel I sort of owe it to me-1995, and besides, I'm still curious.

Iris just called Hazel's 'teacher' her 'pizza', isn't language development cool.

I went up to some strangers and joined in their sporting activity.

Nobody has told the fruit flies on the old peach summer's all gone now.

Gobbets of thought all over the carpentry table.

I've been thinking again, so here are some notes that might remind me of some sparks I'd seen when next I get to put prefrontal cortex to grindstone.

1. Children use their schemas when processing emotional learning as well. Threads of thinking fitted into space, time, and relationships of all sorts.

2. What's fun about playing?
Free play ECE and supporting schema learning gives children who've got into a flow state the chance to stay in it, and more opportunities to keep on getting into flow.

3. Serenity for the Godless: a user's guide to practical positive psychology.
Flow isn't the only good thing and flow-ish states are really quite good. People who're good at getting into flow and flow-ish states are pretty happy people.

4. Make-believe in Art, Religion, and Sport.

11yr old to 7yr old in playground, 'Buddy reading sucked today because I hadn't planned anything, sorry.'

Flow and some "clear and testable predictions related to its elicitation and control"

This article about Flow answers some of my questions and rings true on some of my intuitions.

Gary Gygax died. I can not imagine my life without his influence.

Hazel just chased, caught, and kissed her first boy.

And she told me 'stubborn didn't drop out of the blue sky' about Hazel!