If you think of how many things can happen to the mind using the English language as a tool, if you don't mind think this -
It can be boggled, as in mindboggling;
It can be blown, as in mindblowing;
It can be lessened, or can be lessnessed, as in mindless (act of writing this) or mindlessness (as in without purpose as this blog);
It can be altered, as in through use of certain prohibited or non prohibited substance use in mindnumbing proportions;
It can be used to 'mind the gap' (between available faculty and reality);
It can be used to 'mind the language' itself (this very language that can twist something beyond recognition);
Ultimately coercing you to ask not what you can do to rid yourself of this mindless nonsense but how you can make matters better if you think of it as matter over mind?
Does it matter? Do you mind?
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
With Rajanikant or Quick Gun Murugan around, you also need to be mindful of the fact that they are watching you, ...MIND it!
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