It is called the power of suggestion and according to all criteria, “A good thing,”
A definition according to Google (a trusted source) reads as follows:
The power of suggestion can work for those who have high suggestibility.(apparently I fall into that category).
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And
It can be used to help modify poor behavior patterns. (Ah, yes, there I am.)
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Consequently, during this normally festive week between Christmas and the advent of a new year, when most of the residents in our building were isolating due to covid, I responded with eagerness to suggestion.
And now today I find myself surrounded by my immediate response to shall I say, suggestion, or perhaps a better word, impulse.
Earlier in the week through the magic of streaming I watched an interview with Anna Quindlen, a talented writer. whose career I have followed since her first appearance in the NYT forty years ago.
Ms Quindle is not only prolific and talented, but also wise, and I envy her talent. Consequently, when she advised with almost insistence that we record and share our time on earth for posterity, I quickly responded.
Immediately I ordered print copies of an ebook I had written 22 years ago about my childhood in Hells Kitchen for all the new young descendants of the Donlon, Hall and King families.
Later in the unexpectedly quiet week while recalling several of my daily heath suggestions, I suddenly remembered the wisdom of “An apple a day.” Then lone behold, while preparing my shopping order, I discovered the crunchy and succulent fruit was also a current supermarket special.
Well you know what I did.
Of course, I immediately ordered 5 lbs of Fuji apples ( for applesauce, coffee cake and mere munching.
They arrived within minutes of the mammoth brown cardboard box of bound ms.
And now there is barely room in this (admittdly lovely and luxurious but SMALL) residence for either me or my faithful iPad.
And definitely not enough space to make applesauce or coffee cake or pack the books for mailing.
And I find myself questioning the wisdom of the power of suggestion or perhaps wondering if I should question my own wisdom.
