Thinking (uh oh)

Just got back from a camping trip to Oregon and California with a stay of four days in Berkeley.

Little or no thinking involved.

Stayed away from the news, from music, from the papers (although would read the box scores occasionally) and didn't listen to the radio. No computers either.

It was nice.

Went through the hinterlands of which there are still plenty in this good ol' USA and discovered that the vehicle of choice is the Dodge Ram Charger.

That's good to know.

Also good to know that people who drive selfsame also like to tailgate. I felt like the freakin' Pied Piper for most of our trip, always leading a pack of rats (I mean Dodge Ram Chargers) into the sunset.

And I'm not that slow a driver either. I think some people don't really know how to drive unless they're tailgating somebody -- I saw one guy slow down after he passed me cuz there was nobody else in front of him, poor slob.

So the thinking was absent on our big trip, let the mind go idle (which isn't very hard for me to do, either).

But now, am back, and am loaded for beer. I mean bear. In a thinking kind of way. I'm gonna think and think until I can't think no more. Think this and think that I'm gonna think every which way but loose and then when I'm done thinking I'm just going to think some more in a thoughtful manner.

This is what I think: I think that people have two brains, the right and left. The left brain speaks and is verbal, the right brain is spatial, etc.

But what I think also is that sometimes people can be really smart in one or the other brain, and not all that smart in their other brain.

So maybe you’re really smart in school (left brain) but you leave a lot to be desired when it comes to making common sense decisions (right brain).

You see this all the time. People who I used to think were so smart cuz I was only evaluating one of their brains. People who are so smart in one way and go to Harvard or sompin like that but who are kind of morons really.

But say you’re really smart in your right brain, how do you communicate that to people cuz you always have to filter it through the left brain and the speaking thing. The left brain will always edit the right brain and you look like a complete idiot.

That’s a person who is not smart in either brain, a complete idiot!

So I think it’s a good idea to find out which brain you’re better in and then go with the flow baby!

Anyhoo, I think I'm a right brainer, that's for sure. That's why it took a LONG TIME before anybody thought I was anything other than a complete idiot. I'm a right brainer with a very critical left brain, my left brain always thinks it's right so it has been very difficult for my right brain to really shine, always being intimidated, etc. by the left brain as i said.

I have these things that happen to me at the studio where I sit down with all these good ideas that I have thought up (that my left brain has thought up), I've got a million of them, ones that will be the next masterpiece of the world or close anyway, plus I got a couple in reserve in case the good ones don't work out, and instead, I sit down and something else entirely comes out!

Out of the BLUE!

See, I think when I sit down and start working my RIGHT BRAIN takes that opportunity because if I'm drawing or sompin I most likely am in my right brain to supercede whatever my left brain has thought up (something very stiff more than likely cuz my left brain is STIFF) and go for the glory on an idea the Right Brain has been percolating around for awhile.

And so all these other ideas go OUT THE WINDER! And it's kind of a surprise to me and my left brain.

Whenever I get back into my left brain, like the next day when I arrive at the studio, look at what was done the day before my left brain goes HMMMM very interesting but you can tell the left brain doesn't like it very much but the left brain has learned to keep quiet cuz when it comes to art, the right brain wears the pants in the family.

It's been determined (I'm not sure how) that my left brain is not very smart and leaves a LOT to be desired and to our credit (me and my brains) we've all realized this and have made accommodations.

So after thinking and thinking and thinking like I've never thought before I've come to the conclusion that I think that I ain't gonna think no more bout nothin' and by that I mean thinking in this faulty poorly synapsed way that I think my left brain is known to think in.

Instead I'm gonna go into my right brain and stay there! With occasional sorties over to the left brain when I need to do my taxes, etc.