happy father's day

 there are a couple key concepts my dad explained to me from a very young age that I'd like to share.

"let's go like we're trying to get somewhere"

    this means let's make our actions align with our intentions. if we want to be at a specific place at a specific time, let's stop standing around and actually take the steps to do it.

"don't get in front of me and slow down."

    this was said to me when we used to walk around the mall growing up. I would get in front of him and then slow down which was annoying. but also like, don't take the lead on something and then make things worse for the people you're leading. if we really want to abstractify it.

"no style style"

    We would go to the dollar tree and my dad would pick out cheap sunglasses and he would explain that these glasses exhibited "no style style" which was the kind of style that let everyone know that you didn't have any style. pretty forward thinking in a lot of ways. Although a few weeks ago my dad told me this was actually a really bad idea because cheap sunglasses don't have UV protection so your eye opens to let in more light but then it's not protected from the UV light so it's worse than not wearing sunglasses at all. 

 "cookie physics"

    One time my dad pushed a whole sleeve of knock-off oreos into a single small cup by combining them with milk and then stirring so that it removed all the air and it created a denser and denser concoction of cookie-milk that he kept referring to as "cookie physics"

"sweater jackets/ sweater coats"

    If a jacket or a coat has a zipper but is made of a soft sweater like material then that is a sweater-coat and that is the main garment for going outside if the temperature is anywhere between about 60 and 40 degrees.

there are many other concepts but those are the big ones I could think of and I love my dad