Flip The Blob
When I was in my late teens my father gifted me with a clear tube filled with blue goo. As you can guess by that sentence my mother usually gave the gifts, but that made this tube of goo special and so I kept it. It was kind of like an hourglass (without the hourglass shape) in that as you flipped it the thick, slow-moving goo would go through a hole to the other side. As it did so, bubbles formed and slowly popped. In these mesmerizing moments, focused simply on blue goo moving from one place to the next, you slowly relaxed. I brought the blue goo to college and found it to be the perfect antidote to exam stress. As I would begin to freak out that my brain simply couldn’t remember all that was being asked, I would notice it on my desk and flip it. I knew I had until the goo settled to do anything but study. These moments brought freedom to back away from the chaos to listen to some music, dance a bit, grab a snack, or simply lie down while the BG (listen, it has been with us so long it deserves[Read More]
