Sitting in a science class, my wandering mind searching for ideas, I stared at the periodic table of the elements that hung behind the professor.
Brilliant ideas and possibly even messages from spirit guides may arise from a wandering mind.
By David Remnick The New Yorker, June 5, 2000 P. 33 Talk story about avant-garde jazz legend Ornette Coleman, 70... Mentions his new apartment in the garment district... His conversational style is diffuse, wandering from idea to idea, a little spicy — less like one of his solos than a rehearsal for something.
"For creativity you need your mind to wander," Dr. Schooler says, "but you also need to be able to notice that you're mind wandering and catch the idea when you have it.
Despite this, the experience is exceptionally rich and frequently moving, and I had the idea, wandering through neighbourhoods in mid- and lower Manhattan, that other people, similarly connected to their phones, were also chasing down these stories.
Having already tramped through Afghanistan and curated an exhibition of "Nomadic Art of the Asian Steppes," he was becoming engrossed in a consideration of human wandering — including the idea that peoples on the move make "a natural adjustment towards death, which the super-civilized have lost".
TO Passover cooks parched for new ideas, wandering in a desert of matzo and dried-out brisket, Susie Fishbein is like a tall, icy Coca-Cola — the kosher for Passover kind, made with sugar instead of corn syrup.
The idea of wandering, especially wandering through a beautiful natural setting, had a metaphoric meaning.
Go to centralhotelogcafe.dk There's something very romantic about the idea of wandering out into the wilderness with your tent strapped to your back, finding a beautiful spot and making camp for the night.
Media is changing so rapidly that the idea of wandering to your front porch to pick up the papers before the sprinklers ruin them seems almost prehistoric to the digital generation.
