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Recently while trying to monetize YouTube a lie told myself was uncovered that I believed for 11 years “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” ― Isaac Asimov Blind Spots It easy for me to recall when I was first introduced to the idea of blind spots. Our blind spots cause a failure to recognize that emotions, such as fear and distrust, change how we and others interpret and talk about reality. We think you understand and remember what others say, when we really only remember our thoughts about about gets said. And that is not all… Today, I was working on my YouTube presence trying to attract enough followers and subscribers to monetize my channel. I uploaded the first video there 11 years ago! Wow. Over a decade and it only has 625 views. It’s kinda whimsical, one of my first attempts at making a video from sill pictures. Read the entire article on Medium at Real Window Creative

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People are the fruit of the Earth, so much like an Apple is to a Tree. “A tree Apples and the Earth Peoples: — Alan Watts People are the fruit of the Earth, so much like an apple is to a tree. The tree takes it’s time growing up and finally bears fruit. The apple grows and matures but has little say in the matter and only two possibilities for it’s future exist. Maybe, they are even the same in a way, It could be a crab apple, a bit sour, left on the branch until over ripened then falling to the ground. It is returned to the Earth nurturing her, providing nutrients to the soil. Or, maybe it’s a red delicious apple, sweet and juicy. Birds pick at it, insects live in it, or it is harvested and sent to the grocery store. It is being given to you, the apple, or to life to be enjoyed. It’s purpose is simply to help sustain other forms of life. It is life at the height of beauty and working perfection. In effect, either scenario is the same. It nurtures either way and even looks beautiful in the process, yet the apple has no choice. The best outcome is for life to benefit from it, other life. People are really the same, yet I believe unlike the apple, we have a choice. You can sit alone being sour like a crab apple, eventually getting returned to the earth in a box nurturing worms.Continue Reading