thoughts not mentioned

for some reason, there are often a few 'extra thoughts' that i hesitate to include in my blogs. the thoughts are sometimes 'too risky' or 'taboo' or 'not realistic,' but they are often the most interesting ideas.

in the previous blog, about adoption, i left out the main idea that was in the back of my mind all along: adults informally adopting adults. i then imagined whole groups of people adopting each other, and wondered what would happen if 'children' adopted their 'grandparents' and had circular relationships like that.

who is responsible for what, in the adopted relationships?

similarly, on the blog i wrote just now about loss of community, i left out the main idea in the back of my mind, which was: develop a concept of a school that continues throughout your whole life, without ever ending.

i think that this happens a lot, that there is some idea in the back of my mind, but i don't write it in the blog. the ideas are always the ones that seem too challenging, too non-mainstream, too impossible, or fantasy.

i've got a book in my google books library called 'the house of make believe.' it talks about children pretending. i guess those 'pretend' thoughts in the back of my mind are the ones that i hesitate to write down, but again, they're the most interesting ones.

also, those thoughts are shaping all of my long-term goals and plans. they're forming a structure, a concept of what i think a community needs to be, a concept of what should be done about the problems in society.