The Real Tom Bratt

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This Week's Thoughts...5

  • We all have choice - a lot of choice, more than we think.  Each day we have much more control over all of our decisions than we think.  The internal, constant flow of thought may be the best example.  No one can ever tell you what and how to think, without your consent.  
  • I really hope Deyonta Davis stays at Michigan State for another year.  I think we'll see something great out of him if he does.
  • A clean, organized space is so much more relaxing than its opposite.  I just left my newly organized living room, which was neat and clean, to go to my office, which is very messy.  I felt better in the living room.
  • The exact average human height is the exact average size of the biggest and smallest measurable thing.  
  • Kind notes last much longer than we think.  Below me sit two boxes filled with positivity that I've carted around half the country for nearly two decades.  
  • The scope of influence one person can have - think: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - is amazing.  It would be very interesting to take a look at the interactions you have with people in a given month, and then overlap those with the interactions those people have, and overlap those with interactions other people have and so on; we'd see, much sooner than expected, those circles touching most of the globe. 
  • This matters.  
  • A major reason it matters is that, when you really think about how far our influences can go, it makes it that much more important to be empathetic and kind.  Brief interactions in snap-shot pieces of time have made an extreme impact on me and how I think globally.  
  • On Creation: when we look to the word 'day', as I've heard so often mentioned in churches and such, does this mean a 24-hour period of earth time?  Earth time, I believe, is a labeling system of movements through space.  So a rotation once on its (the Earth's) axis, can be broken into twenty four units, broken into sixty units, twice.  These movements move us; yet, these movements are linked to something much bigger than our world.  That should be mentioned more.  
  • Good coffee is worth the money.  If you drink a cup (of five) a day, why not spend just a little bit more to make all of those things better?
  • The term: Throw Away Fashion, has been spinning around this ole noggin' lately.  
  • Snow in April sucks.