GOTO-HEALTH

The concept was originated by James P Carse, a professor of religion at New York University. Finite Games have a beginning and end and winners and losers. Infinite Games are played to continue playing like a career.

 

I’ve played the Infinite Parenting Game for most of my life. But since my husband passed almost nine years ago, my choices have taken an interesting dimension. Also the covid epidemic as well as my being in my 80s have influenced my choices.  

 

My daughter brought her two girls back to where she grew up. Therefore, I have downsized to my office/bedroom with a view; while she has remodeled and taken over our house, built by my husband, 50 years ago. Covid isolated us and I chose to spend hours learning with YouTube podcasts. I like conversations and discussions, not just lectures. I work to listen to varied choices but realize the algorithms work to present me with most of those choices? 

 

I’m not sure this is a good Infinite game title, but I am learning how to better play the “GAME OF BEING HUMAN and LEARNING - My real self”!  Like Simon Sinek, I choose to be OPTIMISTIC. Like Arthur Brooks, who grew up on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill, I work with Heritage Research for finding true meaning and HAPPIERNESS. Jefferson Fisher teaches me to “let a deep breath be my first response” to a controversy. Lewis Howes is the one I resonated with first and who got me started with podcast listening. I liked the serious guests and technical discussions with Lex Fridman who was a research scientist at MIT and likes robotics. Tom Bilyeu, who grew up in Tacoma, leads his life with his First Principles from his “real self”.

 

Yesterday, Rupert Spira gave me a whole new perspective about “I AM” definitions, starting with, what he does that he just plain loves doing because of truth and beauty! He says: “I love writing, speaking, gathering together with people. I do it, I do it, It’s just my nature.”  

 

Restorative justice rules are: “The Victim Has To Go First”. The Japanese in America stories of discriminative laws and the WWII incarceration, is our story to tell. And we are a community that also has Japanese Heritage values to share. Therefore, I am committing to creating a plan for SUSTAINING our Japanese Cultural and Community Center and it’s activities for the next 100 years in this Pacific Northwest community of the USA. 

 

I love thinking, writing, editing, sharing and having discussions. We currently published  OMOIDE VI (memories) stories and will soon publish OMOIDE VII. Our stories are 500 words or less, targeting school children, but adults are just as enthusiastic. Books are available at Hosekibako (jewelbox) @ jcccw.org.