I’ve traded in the mountains of Colorado for my valley in New Hampshire where the flowers managed to survive in my absence. This podcast marks my first attempt using the laptop and results were mixed. The quality isn’t as good and some technical difficulties ultimately drove me back to the desktop to finish editing it.
The idea that we use words such as “healthy,” “normal,” to say nothing of “aggression,” “dominance” and that whole Pandora’s Box of behavioral terminology as if some universally accepted definition of these exists continues to fascinate me. It’s another one of those areas where certainty seems to affect those at the opposite ends of the knowledge spectrum the most keenly. Those who know little or nothing about these subjects take an Alice in Wonderland “Words mean what I want them to mean” approach. Those who are deeply entrenched in some behavioral pursuit or discipline of one sort or another assume that their definition is the only right one.
It’s only when we step back and get the big picture that we realize how these terms are defined may vary to the point that their use may be meaningless.
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great commentary and podcast, your gardens and house look beautiful in the pictures 😎