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In just a couple weeks, I'll be taking a sabbatical. The word, from Latin (sabbaticus), Greek (sabbatikos), and Hebrew (shabbat) means "ceasing." Or in other words, a sabbatical is a rest from work.
Here's what I've noticed. The first question people ask after hearing about my sabbatical is: "What will you do?"
The minute this question is asked, my mind starts to spin. Six weeks with no external commitments! I could go do this, or create that, or learn this, or work on that …
And yet, I can't picture myself lounging on the couch eating bon-bons. Nor do I think that laying around and binge eating will produce the benefits a sabbatical is meant to bring.
And that brings us to the heart of the thing. Here's why I want to take a sabbatical in the first place. I want to learn how to be purposeful without being my own personal task master. I want to let the dust settle so that in the quiet, I can observe the path I've traveled so far, see clearly where I am now, and glimpse where I'm headed.
That quest will be my first task on my sabbatical. I'll experiment, and see what happens. I'm sure that some attempts will be false starts. For me, work is so tightly woven into play and vice versa. Mindset is a huge part of the puzzle. The reason I'm drawing or playing guitar or hiking is likely more important than the activity itself.
I like the idea of a quest. That's not surprising, I'm sure, to anyone who reads this blog regularly. Maybe my very loose plan should be to take on a quest with three tasks, the first of which is finding the quiet. Wouldn't it be lovely if I could find a doorway that remained, even after the sabbatical? Like a secret doorway behind ivy, maybe once found, the passage into the quiet could be forever known. That quiet space could be tended and nurtured until it blossomed.
I plan to post one more time before my sabbatical, and then I'll be away for a while. When I return, I look forward to sharing about my quest, the tasks I discovered, and what I learned along the way.
In the meantime, here's to you and to your journey.]]>
I know it's happened to you. You have that freak-out moment when you realize that your world is simply too cluttered. You absolutely must–at this very moment–clear out your closet. Or your top desk drawer. Or your car. The trouble is, you're craving clean and tidy and what you get is a messy pile.
Recently, I've been clearing a lot of things out of dark corners. Whether it's a physical pile that I've pulled out of the closet, or an invisible pile, such as my unwritten task list, nearly every time, I'm hit at some point with fear, sharp and sudden. This pile! I think, throwing my arms up in despair. It might be more than I can handle.
As long as you can't see the entire pile, you don't know the distance between where you are and relief. You don't know what it will take to achieve a clear closet or a clear calendar. The pile tells the truth. Here are the things you'll have to decide about, and that you'll have to deal with, before this mess is cleared up.
So usually, at least on good days, we push past the fear and tackle the pile. I've noticed the following questions have been helping me brave the rather large piles I've been tackling lately. Maybe they'll spark some momentum for you, too.
Clutter, whether it is physical, mental, or emotional, crowds out creativity. If we allow the messes to stick around in the dark corners, eventually, our creativity is struggling to thrive in a sunless, oxygen-deprived space. However, when clutter is our creativity block, dealing with the situation is challenging. As we take out the mess, the trouble explodes across our physical or internal space. A flood of emotion is quick to follow. In these moments, the thing that helps me most is remembering that it's not just me. I'm not the only one who who sets out to deal with some clutter, and finds that what's required is determination, resilience and courage. All because of a pile!
If your closet, to-do list, or office is in need of some spring cleaning, remember … when push comes to shove, you're not alone. And you CAN do this, no matter how it feels in the moment. Even a mountain can be moved one shovelful of dirt at a time. I'd love to hear your spring cleaning stories, be they survival tales or monumental successes. Share away below, or join me over on Facebook or Twitter to chat.
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Object: Making learning a daily habit with the Curious app.
What Didn't Work: Trying to remember to take time daily to learn something, spending the time I might have spent learning searching for quality material, learning only about topics I sought out rather than material that might stretch beyond my comfort zone
My Aha! Moment: When I visit classrooms, I love to read the list on the board of all that's in store for the day. As students arrive in the morning, they stop, read the list, smile over the parts of the day that appeal to them, make a face over the parts that will be a challenge, and after they're done, they nod. The day's work is accepted.
Honestly, I miss having a teacher lay out a learning plan for my day. Don't get me wrong, I love the post-school freedom choose my areas of passion and focus. But I miss the richness of being introduced to ideas and topics I wouldn't naturally seek out. Divergent thinking is an essential part of creativity. When my exploration narrows to the areas of my current expertise, I can find myself also feeling stuck.
That's why I was so excited to see the update to the Curious app. Now, this one is a paid app, but you can try it out for free to see if it's a good match for you.
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Is there something you've been wanting to try?
Do you long to learn something new?
Do you wonder whether it's okay for you to noodle around on a guitar, or sign up for a drawing class, or try your hand at growing succulents?
When you ask yourself why you shouldn't, the list probably tumbles out:
And the list goes on. Let's look at the reasons, though, really look at them. It turns out they're are all the same.
Somewhere along the way, we cross an invisible line of adulthood. When we do, something terrible happens. We misplace up our permission slip. We decide we're only allowed to do things at which we will not fail. How do we know we won't fail? Because we built that skill set when we were kids … back when it was okay to fail.
To learn new skills, you MUST fail. You have to try that guitar chord and let it buzz and twang as your fingers build new muscles they don't yet have. You have to draw a street scene in wonky perspective to learn what your artist eyes don't yet see. Should kids be the only ones with permission slips for failure? Should you spend 16 or 18 years of your life learning and the rest only repeating those things you already know how to do?
I'm giving it to you because sometimes I need one too. Your permission slip doesn't have qualifiers, such as:
Consider the one year old who is learning to walk. Even if she falls down a hundred times, she will keep pushing herself to her feet and trying again. She knows that eventually she will walk, it's only a matter of time. She's not keeping score, moving toward an ultimatum. "If I can't walk without falling down by tomorrow, then …"
Then what?
We all need a permission slip because every once in a while we need a reminder that it's truly okay to be right where we are, smack dab in the middle of our messy learning process. It's okay for us to try and fail and try and fail, and then take a break and try again. And it's okay to decide after a while that the guitar isn't for you. Just make sure you're not putting the guitar down as a punishment for your lack of super-star skill. Your permission slip doesn't expire.
In fact, being a learner makes you an interesting, attractive person. When you publicly share your learner status, you give others permission to be learners too. What if being a learner was catching? What if because you decided to take voice-over lessons, your best friend decided to try writing a picture book? And what if her brother, while watching her write a picture book, signed up for an animation course? And what if one day that picture book was published and as a team, the three of you, plus a few new friends, created an animated short feature … which not only was a joyful collaboration but ended up inspiring a whole classroom of students to try writing stories of their own … and on and on and on it could go.
No, honestly. Let's actually do it. Let's hand-write permission slips and leave them for loved ones to find. Slip them under pillows or into lunch bags. Let's help one another see that we do, in fact, have permission. Let's remind one another that it's truly okay to play around, to experiment. And while you're at it, make a permission slip for yourself, too. Decide what outrageous thing you're going to try, not because you're going to take this on as your new career, but because you want to give it a whirl. I'd love to hear how it goes. Will you tell me the story below in the comments? Or you can tell me on Facebook or Twitter. Anywhere, really. I'd love to hear your permission slip story. I can't wait to cheer you on as you play around and have some fun. Go ahead. You have permission.
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When we don't leave room in our plans for surprise, we close off possibilities. Most of us squash possibilities for surprise as a knee-jerk reaction without realizing we're limiting ourselves. How? I'll explain, but first, imagine a scenario with me.
Actor One: (pointing frantically) Oh no, look, it's a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Actor Two: (leaning forward) And look, he's nodding his head toward us. I think he's trying to tell us something.
Actor One: Now he's running straight toward us! Run!
Actor Two: (running along behind Actor One, looking over her shoulder) I wonder if we should try to talk to him?
Actor One: He's a monster. AGGGGH! Run!
Actor Two can't salvage the scene, and ends up running offstage with Actor One. The scene is over.
In improv, we call this "saying no." Actor One started the scene planning for a T-Rex to chase her offstage, and no matter what her scene partner said, Actor One was going to play her planned scene. She said no to all the possibilities and possible surprises Actor Two introduced.
Why might this happen?
Actor One might start the scene a little nervous. The audience is watching, and the silence is lengthening. So, she blurts out the first thing that comes to mind. There's a T-Rex! Good, drama. Danger. The silence is broken. But Actor Two, relieved of the burden of introducing the first idea, sees the clear problem with the scene's direction. If there's a T-Rex, they should both run. And running away isn't really a scene. So, Actor Two introduces the possibility that this T-Rex isn't like other dinosaurs. Maybe he has a secret. If Actor One allows her idea to grow and expand, building upon the idea of an unusual dinosaur with a secret, something interesting can start to happen. Neither actor is responsible entirely for the success of the scene. Both actors have the possibility to be surprised. These moments, when actors are bold enough to allow themselves to be surprised, are when interesting things can happen.
Unfortunately, the solution isn't as easy as throwing plans out the window. Classes, meetings, conversations, confrontations and even day-to-day schedules suffer if we don't prepare at all. Maybe here, we can learn a thing or two from improvisational actors.
Recently, I've been challenged to take steps forward into new territory–artistically, professionally, and personally. What's fascinating is how pertinent my improv training continues to be, no matter how far the challenge is from an actual stage. It turns out that improvisation can be a training ground for real life … and as in actual improv, when you approach life's situations with an open-for-surprise attitude, delightful things can happen.
I wonder: In what life situation might you practice your improvisational skills? I hope you try it, and if you do, share your story in the comment area below, or tag me on Facebook or Twitter. I'd love to hear how the experiment goes for you.
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If you're a novelist and you spend the day working on a difficult passage, ending up with 500 words, it's all too easy to judge the day a failure. Only 500 words today. Or, what if at the end of a day of teaching, you realize that you spent most your time resolving a heartfelt conflict in your classroom but hardly any time on spelling?
Asking the wrong question leads to the wrong answer. And the wrong answers, over time, lead to skewed thinking, poor decisions, and too often, a sense of discouragement and confusion.
And yet, reflection is an important part of growth. The momentum that growth brings is key to staying motivated and engaged.
Here are a few I'm going to try.
Donald Miller used to have a course about life-planning. In it, he encouraged people to ask themselves in the morning: "If I could do today over, what would I do differently?" Projecting yourself to the end of the day and thinking about what honestly matters shifts the day's focus from that addictive to-do list to something more lasting and important.
I'm enjoying the experiment–these book-end question sessions at the start and end of the day. Want to try it out too? I'd love to hear about your experience. Feel free to share below, or tag me on Facebook or Twitter and let's chat about it. In the meantime, here's to you and your creative journey.
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INTERVIEW WITH NAOMI KINSMAN by PATRICIA NEWMAN
Naomi Kinsman weaves her life around the creative process. Not only plumbing the depths of creativity for her middle-grade novels, but in teaching children and adults to find their passion for their stories. She started the Society of Young Inklings about eight years ago—named for C.S. Lewis' and J. R. R. Tolkien's Inklings group—to help children find their voices as writers. Naomi and I are represented by the same literary agency, and our paths frequently cross in the writing world. Her devotion to her craft is both inspirational and instructive. I spoke to Naomi by telephone to find out more about her creative process.
Patricia: Is there a childhood memory that sticks out in your mind?
Naomi: I was a very, very shy child. When I was in second grade, my mom took me to see a production of Annie, and I saw this little girl up on stage and she was exuberant and boisterous and I wanted that opportunity to try on a different personality. Around the same time our school was doing a musical called "Totally Buggy." There was this character, a ladybug, who had this beautiful jazzy solo. I had my heart set on being the ladybug, but I couldn't bring myself to audition. I admitted to my friend that I wanted the part. She got me to sing while we were alone on the swings. "The wind will be so loud I won't be able to hear you," she said. We did that day after day, and we got louder and louder. One day in class the girl who was the ladybug was sick, and the teacher asked for volunteers. Somehow I raised my hand. Everyone looked at me. No one thought I would do it, but I sang. I remember hearing my own voice in my ears, having my class look at me, and saying to myself you can do the impossible thing.
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How do you consume stories? Do you read them? Listen to them? Watch them? Play them out? How many stories have you consumed today? This week?
I'll venture to guess that stories are a staple of your every day diet, and not just because you're the kind of person who reads this blog. There's a reason brands use stories as the foundation for multi-million dollar commercials such as the ones aired during the Super Bowl.
Donald Miller, as part of his Storybrand workshops, points out that stories are built on patterns. Those patterns create clarity in the human mind. In a well-crafted story, a character has a problem and sets out to solve it. Through the story's twists and turns, the character strives for the desired solution, and in the end he or she either achieves success or does not.
But the point is: We KNOW what the character wants. We can see the character's progress. We have a mental picture of what success looks like. All the twists and turns in the story are given meaning, when viewed in light of the goal.
First of all, it's not easy to figure out the exact problem and identify a clear solution or goal. Maybe we want fourteen things all at the same time. Or maybe we know what we want but we doubt our motives. We want external guidance and assurance that we're headed in the right direction.
Second, it's not easy to gauge success. When we watch a character try to solve a problem, we can usually read into his or her internal reasons for needing that problem to be solved. Maybe externally, the Three Pigs each want to build their own houses. But what they really need is a safe place to live. When they end up together in the brick house, safe from the wolf, their deeper longing has been met. They are safe. In our real lives, when we don't reach our external goals, we feel frustrated. Even if our internal problem is solved, we may not realize that is the case, leaving us feeling foggy and uncertain. We wonder: Have I made progress? Often the missed goal blinds us to the actual success.
No. Not impossible. And when we do glimpse the story pattern, every twist and turn and challenge and success becomes that much more meaningful. The fog on the path ahead clears, and we see how to carry our life story forward.
Here are some questions I find helpful when reflecting on my own life story.
Question five can be the basis to draw a map for your life story. Where are the notable successes and where are the setbacks? The more whimsical the map, the more it can transform your experience into something objective that you can look at from the outside. The map then becomes a living document that can accompany you on the journey.
I hope you'll try this process out for yourself. Over the past couple years, I've used a map to chart the story of my year. I've gained so much perspective from seeing my story told in this visual, streamlined way. I hope the same is true for you! Feel free to share your story below, or share with the greater community on Facebook or Twitter.
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Because of my number dread, I don't capture data in numbers very often. For the most part, I rely on intuition and my memory.
The thing is, memory can be tricky. Stories can be revised. Intuition, while wise, can also be skewed. What I've learned recently is that whether you're a numbers person or not, numbers are invaluable when it comes to creative problem-solving. It turns out, numbers are our friends.
As a creative person, I constantly have new ideas sprouting up here and there and everywhere. I'm easily tricked into thinking that I can add "just one more thing" to my already full day. Were I to look at the numbers, I'd see that a day has 24 hours. Some of those hours are required for sleeping, eating, exercising, laughing … There's a finite number of "just one more things" that a day can hold. The number 24 provides a distinct, specific problem to solve. How will I spend my 24 hours today?
Improvisational actors know that in order to create a great scene, a set of givens is required. The givens lead to interesting questions, and interesting questions lead to unexpected solutions. If the scene must include an elephant, an umbrella and a pickle, the actors can then work on how to make those things happen. The how is what makes the scene hilariously clever.
When you ask yourself, "How might I … " along with a specific problem to solve, you're likely to come up with a list that includes a few unusual and delightful solutions. But when you ask yourself, "What should I do about … " and ponder a vague problem you're facing, you'll probably feel frustrated, blocked and stumped.
Q: How much time is there in your week?
A: This one is the same for all of us … 168 hours.
Q: What are your firm commitments and how many hours do they take on average?
A: This one is variable, but includes sleep, exercise, meals, family, and other non-negotiables.
Q: How much time is left over?
A: Time – Firm Commitments = Left Over Time
Q: How might you creatively utilize your left over time?
Let your mind roam here. You've done the hard math part, and now you can use your creative gifts. Explore the preposterous, turn the problem on its head, transform the boundaries into opportunities. See what you can come up with. Here's the excellent news. This strategy goes far beyond offering solutions for your current time crunch. Now, you have a roadmap for tackling all those pesky life questions which have been bugging you.
Give your solution some time to kick in, and then check your results against the numbers. Now, you have a process that allows you to experiment and refine rather than inventing the wheel over and over, having no idea whether you're making progress at all.
Now, here's the thing. If you're anything like me, gathering the numbers will be a little bit painful. Your creativity will lurch and struggle against the hard, firm lines of reality. And yet, that lurching and struggling is actually energy building, energy that will throw itself eagerly into problem solving as soon as you set it free. I promise that the pain is worth the results.
Will you try it for yourself? I hope you do. And when you do, let me know how it goes. Post in the comments below, or share your story with me on Facebook or on Twitter. I can't wait to hear about your successes!
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One of the most important things my writing has taught me is about the dynamic nature of goals. Namely, I've learned that in the best stories, the adventure transforms the goal. Characters may not end up with everything they originally wanted, but they do end up with what they need. Let's put that a different way, into real life terms.
I have to say, if there is a way for me to gain "what I need," I'm definitely all for diving in fully. How about you?
Let's break this down a bit and take a look at what dynamic goal setting looks like.
DECIDE TO TAKE A JOURNEY: First, we check in with ourselves and listen to what is calling our hearts. We ask: What am I longing for?
DRAW YOUR MAP: Then, we set the best goal we can, given the information we have. We write the goal down and post it visibly.
START AT THE TRAILHEAD: Next, we commit fully. We aim for the goal and give the process our full effort. We research and discuss our goal with experts and learn and take action.
LISTEN TO FELLOW TRAVELERS: Now here's where dynamic goal setting differs from traditional goal setting. Rather than putting up our blinders and pushing on no matter what, we listen. We pay attention to unexpected opportunities that arise. We don't put in our ear plugs when people we trust challenge us to see our blind spots.
NOTICE THE SIGN-POSTS: We are thoughtful about sidetracks, shortcuts and complete re-routes. We don't follow every shiny object. We watch for patterns. Most importantly, we take time to slow down and reflect on the question: Is this where I need to go next?
JOURNEY ON: We continue to move forward confidently, allowing our destination to shift as needed, and making sure to collect all of our learning along the way.
CELEBRATE EACH VISTA: When we reach a vista, we stop and reflect, noting how far we've come. We write these down too, or record them in some way, so we can keep a running travelogue of our journey. Sometimes a vista is a good time to start the process over again, setting a new goal. Other times, the journey continues onward.
Often, what we need doesn't match what we want because our deep, true needs usually involve change and growth. Growth nearly always requires discomfort, and sometimes is even downright painful. In an ideal world, we'd want life to be easy and pain-free. And yet, to me, a pain-free life that I drift through, never growing or learning, sounds miserable. I don't want to be the same person I am today in ten years. I'm grateful that my experiences to this point have added a richness to my life that it didn't have when I was 20.
I love how Henry Cloud describes the pain of growth in is book, Necessary Endings. He points out that while we might not describe having a tooth pulled as "good," once the infected tooth has been removed, we can then heal and move forward. The experience was a positive one, even if we wouldn't choose to repeat it.
What if, a year from now, you could look back and say, "I've had an Alice in Wonderland year." or "I've had a Bilbo Baggins year." Would you be willing to risk the hardship if you knew you had the opportunity to gain whatever it is YOU truly need?
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1522?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12682387#action_12682387 ] Mark Miller commented on LUCENE-1522: ------------------------------------- I don't think its easy to get a speedy highlighter that works with positions for all of the Lucene queries. In the long term, I'd love to see a fast highlighter that works with positions for all of Lucene's queries . I'd also like it to work if you don't have termvectors stored (though be faster if they are perhaps, as it is now). Essentially we have each of these pieces separately now - the difficulty is doing it with one highlighter. We have the standard Highlighter with two modes: one that doesn't handle positions, and one that handles position sensitive highlighting for Spans and almost all of the queries. This framework is great - its customizable, it handles a lot of corner cases, it works without termvectors, it gets faster with termvectors. Unfortunately, it runs through the source stream one token at a time, and doesn't scale well. Getting hit positions for position sensitive clauses requires converting the query to a span query and calling getSpans on a memory index We also have the termvector highlighters that can work from offsets in the query and avoid running through a token at a time. You need termvectors for this approach, and its difficult to handle positions, but it scales. The difficulty and goal is in merging the qualities of both. > another highlighter > ------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-1522 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1522 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: contrib/highlighter > Reporter: Koji Sekiguchi > Assignee: Michael McCandless > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.9 > > Attachments: colored-tag-sample.png, LUCENE-1522.patch, LUCENE-1522.patch > > > I've written this highlighter for my project to support bi-gram token stream (general token stream (e.g. WhitespaceTokenizer) also supported. see test code in patch). The idea was inherited from my previous project with my colleague and LUCENE-644. This approach needs highlight fields to be TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS_OFFSETS, but is fast and can support N-grams. This depends on LUCENE-1448 to get refined term offsets. > usage: > {code:java} > TopDocs docs = searcher.search( query, 10 ); > Highlighter h = new Highlighter(); > FieldQuery fq = h.getFieldQuery( query ); > for( ScoreDoc scoreDoc : docs.scoreDocs ){ > // fieldName="content", fragCharSize=100, numFragments=3 > String[] fragments = h.getBestFragments( fq, reader, scoreDoc.doc, "content", 100, 3 ); > if( fragments != null ){ > for( String fragment : fragments ) > System.out.println( fragment ); > } > } > {code} > features: > - fast for large docs > - supports not only whitespace-based token stream, but also "fixed size" N-gram (e.g. (2,2), not (1,3)) (can solve LUCENE-1489) > - supports PhraseQuery, phrase-unit highlighting with slops > {noformat} > q="w1 w2" > w1 w2 > --------------- > q="w1 w2"~1 > w1 w3 w2 w3 w1 w2 > {noformat} > - highlight fields need to be TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS_OFFSETS > - easy to apply patch due to independent package (contrib/highlighter2) > - uses Java 1.5 > - looks query boost to score fragments (currently doesn't see idf, but it should be possible) > - pluggable FragListBuilder > - pluggable FragmentsBuilder > to do: > - term positions can be unnecessary when phraseHighlight==false > - collects performance numbers -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Let's get this out of the way right now: Gone Home is not a bad game because whir's da guns? Whir's da fightan?! Every game doesn't have to be an action game. It is not a bad game because of its relative brevity. Plenty of shorter games can be good and memorable enough to justify their existence. It isn't a bad game because it tries to be story-driven and tell a story about young queer love. I personally have no real interest in young queer love, but they don't have to make a game for me, personally, and story's as good a way to drive a game as any. And, of course, it is a video game. Trying to pretend it isn't just shows how little you care about your argument, and your willingness to use "not really a game!" as shorthand for "game I don't like!" Gone Home is a bad game because it relies on three things, and two of them don't work: characterization, romantic storytelling, and nostalgia bombing. I was a kindergartner in 1995. I am firmly a child of the late 90's-early 00's, and I didn't grow up when this game takes place. All the cute little nods, the lovingly-crafted snapshots of a world so like our own and yet so different... it was doubtless mind-blowing for people who grew up then. But, even forewarned and forearmed, it just doesn't work for me. Even if the joke has been explained to you, you just won't find it funny. Second, the romance. What can I say about it that hasn't already been said? The YMMV page has got plenty of examples. I just don't buy it. Maybe it'd be different if I were gay or heavily-invested in homosexual acceptance, but I'm not. To me, it's just a generic teenage love story about how parents just don't understand, and even there the game undermines itself by making the party we're supposed to root for into a couple of impulsive thieves. I can't deny that the characterization is the best part of the game, and the well-drawn inhabitants of the house really do hit you pretty hard. But the rest of the game just doesn't work for me. If you want to try it, you probably already have. Maybe you liked it more than I do. I just hope that you remember that everyone who hates this game isn't a pack of rageaholic shitheads whose opinions you can dismiss out of hand.
Loved it to pieces (but not for everyone)
I have no idea how to classify this growing genre. Ive started just labeling them Interactive Narratives, which gets the point across while sounding nice and pseudo-intellectual. So, Gone Home is an Interactive Narrative game, which consists of you, as 20-year-old Katie, meandering through your not!childhood home after a year abroad. But as its 1995, none of your family had a Facebook page to let you know what the bloody hell went on during your European adventures. Spoilers: Family Drama! Weeeeeee! To say more would spoil it. Gone Home is entirely reliant on its plot and how invested you become in uncovering all the mundane (ie. in comparison of what games are usually about) snippets of your familys life. Its unavoidably going to be compared to Dear Esther, due to the lack of any real gameplay (other than choosing which direction to go) and the portioned out story. Gone Home has more control and interactivity, sure, but its not an unreasonable comparison. To whit I really liked Dear Esther, and I really liked Gone Home. And like Dear Esther, I can see players splitting themselves down the middle - CoD players vs Pretentious twats, which is a shame but hey, Internet. Still, as a pretentious Co D-playing twat, I find myself thoroughly confused. Some of my best friends whose opinion I greatly respect would sooner drive a steak-knife into their goolies than sit through Gone Home, while Im looking forward to a replay. Odd to get yourself wound-up over it. There are a few other items I have seen some take issue with the price, for starters. $20.00 for, at most, 3 hours of gameplay (1.5 seems to be the average. Im a dawdler) might be too much for some. Theres the aforementioned straddling the line between game and movie with arrow buttons. Also theres no twist, otherwordly or otherwise. Sorry. Apparently some were expecting to find Jacob Marley in the attic. So in summary: I liked it a heck of a lot. You may not though. Its that kind of game. I could go on, but Ive just learnt how short 400 words really is. NB. I should also mention I've no real personal experience with the elements of Sams story, Gone Homes main hook, so Im in no position to really judge it critically. I, for one, just found it to be a good, sweet story told exceptionally well.
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Many games that are praised for their story are ultimately just regular games that happen to tell a story inbetween levels, or are totally linear scriptfests that force story upon you. What they have in common, though, is oftentimes a lack of real interactivity, as you merely move along and experience scripted moments, dialog and cinematics. Here, though, things are done differently. Picture a First Person Shooter. Now remove the shooting and make it less linear, focusing entirely on story, exploration, and interacting with the environment. That's basically what you get here. The controls are First Person Shooter controls whether you use keyboard/mouse or a controller, but there is no shooting. You walk around an abandoned house and examine the place, reading anything that catches your interest. And there is a lot. While many games use the "oops I lost my journal" style of storytelling, Gone Home makes more logical sense - the things left around the house include newspaper clippings about events important to the family, crumpled-up unfinished story drafts by the budding novelist father, a rejection letter from a book company, bills, sticky notes, letters and journal entries written by the main character's sister Sam, and more. Some of these writings are genuinely funny, such as a homework assignment Sam chose to goof around in while still technically following its instructions to the letter, turning a health class assignment into an epic war story. You can also interact mildly with the environment, most notably putting a cassette tape into a tape player to listen to it. All these details flesh out the lives of the family in this house and paint a complete picture of what happened to everyone and why. While there's no combat or action, some basic gaming skills are necessary to navigate the house at some points. For example, a secret passageway requires you to crouch and remove a panel from the wall - second nature to a gamer, but not something a non-gamer would pick up on. Also, many light switches are in the dark, and may be hard to find at first. Gone Home is very short, but as an experiment of how to make an interactive story, I hope it succeeds. It has the potential to grow the appeal of gaming as a medium, and hopefully will lead to bigger and better ideas.


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Chef Nam Singh, LAc., will introduce the principles of cooking with Chinese herbs for longevity and health. Delicious tastes of seasonal foods will be provided!
Formerly of China Moon and Monsoon Restaurants, Mr. Singh has worked extensively throughout the Bay Area restaurant scene. He presently teaches in San Francisco at the South Star Academy of Cooking with Chinese Herbs and online through the Academy of Healing Nutrition.
A practitioner of all eight limbs of Chinese Medicine: Meditation, Exercise, Diet, Herbology, Astrology, Feng Shui, Massage, Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Mr. Singh is a graduate of the Tai Pei Institute of Traditional Pharmacology and Acupuncture, and of Wei Chuan's Culinary Institute Tai Pei, R.O.C. Taiwan. As a chef he specializes in Chinese medicinal cuisine.
Chef Singh has collaborated on two well-received books, Between Heaven and Earth, A Guide to Chinese Medicine and Chinese Immigrant Cooking.
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