One of my favorite movies growing up was that of Silence of the Lambs. I am not too sure what they says about me. However, It’s what made me want to become a psychologist. My mom told me, though, I was meant to be a psychologist whether I had watched that film or not. Because it is one of my favorite movies, I often quote it. At work, baseball games, the bathroom, at the dinner table, you name it. It’s so insightful how could you not? With that said, there are bits of situations and conversations here and there that also remind me of the movie. Sometimes in very odd ways.
This morning my son was playing on his XBox with online friends. It is such a different world from when I was growing up. It would have been so cool to play online with “friends” across the country. I know many people hate these changes in children’s play, but I believe there are good things to them. I believe their brains are being wired to connect with people in new and fascinating ways. And, we just don’t know yet how this will play out decades from now. But one good thing is that interconnection on a global scale. My son knows people from throughout the US and world and they each talk about their local areas exchanging information and insights. Couple that with our constant travels, I do hope that my son understands that the world is quite diverse and never becomes insular in his thinking. But I digress.
As he was playing, I was walking back and forth and up and down getting ready for the day. As I headed into the kitchen, I heard him say something that gave me pause. He noted that he had been concerned that he didn’t have enough skins but he was ok now. I thought that was such an odd statement to make. I immediately went to my childhood and thought of the movie Silence of the Lambs. I specifically think of the character of Buffalo Bill when he notes “It puts the lotion in the basket“. That is one of my favorite lines from the movie that I quote quite often. I know. It’s weird. But there have been times where it has actually been appropriate to quote it in a team meeting. I kid you not. As I think of the quote I start to laugh and go back to see what my son was referring to. Ah yes! He was referring to outfits (or is it costumes) in Fortnite. All quite innocent. However, isn’t it a bit creepy that they refer to costumes as skins? I suppose it is interesting that my son and I will both have our skin references in old age. Some things change. Some things stay the same.
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psychologistmimi 
A Major Problem With Modern
Psychology and thank Goodness
Science is Catching Up
To ‘Eastern’
Philosophies
Is that our
Neo-Cortex when
We are Healthy Is
A Great Servant of
Our Limbic System
For Mind and Body
Balance in Other
Words there
Is No
True
Healthy
Song of
Life Without
A Physical Dance And
This is the Caution/Warning
If understood by the Science
Of the Human Condition
That ‘Should’ Be
Embossed
On
Every ‘Screen’
As Truly there is no
Healthy Emotional
Regulation or Sensory
Integration without
A Dance of
Life.. i could
Have ‘cured’ all
The ‘Curses’ of
Of Bipolar and
Autism so Long ago
If i Could Have Just Found
A ‘Witch Doctor’ to
Convince me to
Dance like
No one
Is Watching..
‘The Silence of
The Lambs’ is an
Appropriate metaphor
For This Modern Age And
When my Psychiatrist
Saw how i cured what
He could offer zero
Help for 66 Months
He Quit his
Practice to
Teach Movement
Therapy in A
Hospital
Down South…
i also Encourage Dance
As Science is also Finding
Now that it is A literal
Fountain
Of Youth…
‘Onward Christian Soldiers’
Called it ‘Footloose’ Savagery
While
The
Native
Indians
Of Nature
Were Practicing
Heaven On Earth the
Luck of the Irish (me too)
A ‘little’ Jig i Bring You
Today for it
Is True
Fingers Dance
Too and the
Benefit is the same
And True as Long
As We are typing
We are Dancing too…
All i Do is
Dance and
Measure the
Results aLong
The Way Life
Is always Longer
Now When Dance
Becomes
The
Song
Of our Souls.. in
Mind and Body Balance
Oh yeah.. and Dedicated
To my only Son Ryan who Never
Gained the opportunity to
Dance With Hands or
Feet or Smile..
i still iSmile for
Him iDance
iSing iLive iLove
Smiles and yes iPhone
Home
too…
iHurricanes
Do Make iRainbows
That are real and no
Myth
As
Pot of Gold..
See ya later ‘Dorothy’..
-Real Oz
Do Dance
Do Sing Do Love Do Live
SMiLes…
Hehe…
Do Delete…
If This if too Loooonnng
For…
You..;)
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Eek! But yes. Skins are necessary. There is some wastage.
Creepy movie, creepy character. With hugely creepy associations with actual events. I don’t know how you would go about forgiving some of the things ‘humans’ do to others.
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When I think of skins, I think of potatoes. I love potato skins.
Or I think back to jr. hi PE. When we would form up teams to play against each other, it would be shirts vrs. skins. One side would remove their T-shirts to identify which team they were on. Not an option in anything other than an all-male class.
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I don’t think I’ve had potato skins much in the past. I should give them a try. 🙂
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