INTRODUCTION TO HABITS PART II

If we really get right down to the crux of it, it becomes obvious that habits are simply things repeated over

time and space.

Stripes are a habit, as are Scottish plaid and the design that the Oreos make in a black and white milkshake.

Tessellations -- pictures where a mouse eats the same piece of cheese over and over again and again -- are also habits.  

Provided are a few examples for visual learners.

Habits also appear in art:

Rainman, Dustin Hoffman

always eating fishsticks

(as seen above)

Moneymaker, by Ludacris 

"I'm at the top of my game/

You want my hands from the bottom to the top of your frame/

And I just want to take a little ride on your curves/

And get erotic giving your body just what it deserves./

Now let me give you some swimming lessons on the p**is/

Backstroke, breaststroke, stroke of a genius"

One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop

"The art of losing isn't hard to master;

so many things seem filled with the intent

to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster

of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:

places, and names, and where it was you meant

to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or

next-to-last, of three loved houses went.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And vaster,

some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.

I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture

of love) I shan't have lied. It's evident 

the art of losing's not hard to master

though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster."

UPCOMING:

ANIMAL HABITS

 (puppies, kittens, penguins, horses, pigeons, and open to suggestions)

GUEST BLOGGER PRESCRIPTION H RESPONDS TO NY TIMES ARTICLE AND EXPLAINS THINGS WE DON'T KNOW WHILE AT THE SAME TIME ADDING OTHER THINGS TO THE LIST