{"id":24466,"date":"2023-05-28T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=24466"},"modified":"2023-05-28T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T17:38:19","slug":"episode-827-imagination-and-a-stump-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=24466","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 827 IMAGINATION AND A STUMP FENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 827   IMAGINATIoN AND A STUMP FENCE<\/p>\n

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What do you see here?<\/div>\n

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There is more to a stump fence than meets the eye. However you will need a dash of imagination.<\/div>\n
Maybe a dollop of abstract thinking.   Maybe it is possible to see things in a stump fence that <\/div>\n
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Rorschach test\u2026(an ink block test).<\/div>\n

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Long long ago I remember sitting in Runnymede Presbyterian church when Dr. McQueen<\/div>\n
gave his regular children sermon.   He always did this before the adult sermon.  I could <\/div>\n
enjoy those sermons because he used stump fences as triggers for presenting big ideas.<\/div>\n

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. \u201cThis week <\/div>\n
I found this piece of a stump fence that looked like a woodpecker hunting for hidden<\/div>\n
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IMAGINARY LESSON FROM A STUMP FENCE<\/div>\n

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“This week we have a woodpecker in search<\/div>\n
of food\u2026a listener\u2026a searcher for something unseen\u2026.a hard worker whose life depends on <\/div>\n
the ability to pound out holes in search of treasure.  Some humans do that every day.<\/div>\n
Work can be hard.  Hard work, however, often leads to treasure.   A good book can do that.<\/div>\n
I read one the other day titled Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.   You would like that book.<\/div>\n
\u2026presents big ideas that should concern us all.  Like the dangers of pesticides.\u201d<\/div>\n

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All this from a chunk of a stump fence.  yes.  Imagination is wonderful.  Use it.<\/div>\n

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CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING IMAGINARY IN THESE STUMPS?<\/div>\n

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DID you notice the sea otter about to be engulfed by big wave?<\/div>\n

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I see a young sea otter\u2026or is it a duck?<\/div>\n
\u2026Marjorie saw a mongoose.<\/div>\n

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alligator or snake about to eat a yellow flower<\/div>\n

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coiled python with head hidden<\/div>\n

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gaping mouth of the child python found<\/div>\n
on a root about 20 feet away from  the body\u2026that<\/div>\n
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FIND THE TINY HAND!<\/div>\n

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Tiny hand reading out to greet.   Can you find the hand in the original pic? I bet you cannot!<\/div>\n

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alan    may 28,2023<\/div>\n

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(I SAW A TINY HAND REACHING OUT IN GREETING\u2026.does that mean anything?<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 827   IMAGINATIoN AND A STUMP FENCE alan skeoch may 27, 2023 What do you see here? There is more to a stump fence than meets the eye. However you will need a dash of imagination. Maybe a dollop of abstract thinking.   Maybe it is possible to see things in a stump fence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}