We are leaving this....
for this!
(Thanks to Elder Scott Zimmerman, serving in the Madrid temple, for this photo he took on Tenerife recently.)
(Thanks to Elder Scott Zimmerman, serving in the Madrid temple, for this photo he took on Tenerife recently.)
We are flying off day after tomorrow. We are 10 days short of 1 year since our first call to Scotland. Our Canary Island call came 5 weeks later. It has been so long that I am having a hard time wrapping my brain around the fact that we are actually going. I am scared and excited at the same time. Right now we shuffle stuff in suitcases trying to keep them in the 50 lb. weight limit. The vitamins I am taking weigh a lot.
Our friend Linda Hoffman, serving in the Monterey Mexico temple, sent me the following and I believe it describes our journey. We are looking forward to what is on the other side of the NEW DOOR! And forgetting life on the other side of the door is probably good.
This explains it all--
Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?
Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses.
Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what's known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next.
Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.
It's not aging, it's the damn door! Thank goodness for studies like this.
Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?
Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses.
Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what's known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next.
Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.
It's not aging, it's the damn door! Thank goodness for studies like this.
