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Introduction: Like the squirrel in the photo above, we can miss a lot of we don't pay attention.

Inspiration for blog:

1. Donnel B. Stern wrote an article and a book called Unformulated Experience. That got me thinking that I would like to formulate my experience. His original paper was published in 1983.

2. "Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." (From the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (p217))

3. Focusing by Eugene Gendlin

Purpose: I hope through prose and poetry to formulate my experience.

Example: You know that thin layer of contempt when you explain to someone something you think they should know.