Memes, Metaphors and Magic

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This episode is the audio version of my first Substack post, where I'm officially launching my newsletter. I'll share why I'm pairing my podcast with Substack to more fully convey the spirit of Memes, Metaphors and Magic. 

If you prefer to read and view the accompanying visuals, you can find the full written post linked below: 
https://memesmetaphorsmagic.substack.com/p/nonsense-mostly?r=73sijf

There's also a Spotify playlist that goes with this post.

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3JWmgOyeNMCDoPwjEgaeuz?si=cd469cbfdabb4782 

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Meme Nugget #4:

"I'm glad I learned about parallelograms instead of how to do taxes. It's really come in handy this parallelogram season." 

- Unknown

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Meme Nugget #3:

"Tomorrow is April fools' day. 

Believe nothing and trust no one.

Just like any other day." 

- Unknown

Resources:

• Once More, With Feeling: Partnering with Learners to Re-see the College Experience Through Metaphor and Sensory Language by Taran Cardone
• Philosopher, Poet, Trickster: New Role Models for Corporately Responsible Leaders by Donna Ladkin

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Meme Nugget #2:

"Even though it doesn't feel like it right now, you're going to end up exactly where you need to be, with the people who love you the most, doing what you were created to do. Until then, just keep going." 

- Unknown

Resources:

• Wonderful Digital Consulting
• Connection Project 360

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We're trying something new on the podcast - a new series called Meme Nuggets, solo episodes discussing a particular meme. They'll be sprinkled throughout the podcast along with more amazing guest interviews! 

Meme Nugget #1: 

"Art is what we call... the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the... eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist." 

- Seth Godin

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Just a quick podcast update... wishing you a happy holiday and looking forward to bringing you new content in the new year! 

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Shownotes

Memes: 

• The Breakfast Club Quilting Meme - "Let me tell you about the Breakfast Club meme first because it's the iconic movie poster image of the stereotypical high school kids and I labeled it with different techniques, subcultures in the quilting world."
• Harry Potter "They're Quilts Not Blankets" Meme - "Harry Potter... has this arch enemy and they are face to face in a magical shootout showdown and so the image on the meme, he's holding out his wand and you can tell he's just really intense and he's going to utter this curse and the caption is 'They're quilts, not blankets.'"
• The Sewing Room Won't Tidy Itself Meme - "So this 1... says, 'The sewing room won't clean itself so we'll just close the door.'"

Join our Facebook group to be part of the conversation and view the meme for this episode or you can follow us on Instagram @memesmetaphorsandmagic. Learn more about your personal year number with this free resource!

Metaphors:

• THE INTUITING FUNCTION OF THE MYERS BRIGGS TYPES IS A POPCORN POPPER.
• OGRES ARE ONIONS. 
• QUILTS ARE METAPHORS.
• Underlying, or primary, metaphors:
  • CONSIDERING IS WEIGHING.
  • ORGANIZATION IS PHYSICAL STRUCTURE.
  • INTERRELATEDNESS IS PHYSICAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS. 
  • TIME PERIODS (IN OUR LIVES) ARE CONTAINERS.
  • AFFECTION IS WARMTH.
  • EMOTIONAL INTIMACY IS PROXIMITY.

Magic:

• 4 Lifepath Number (Numerology)
• 2 Expression Number (Numerology)
• 9 Soul Urge Number (Numerology)
• 11 Personality Number (Numerology)
• Context® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Maximizer® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Activator® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Libra (Astrology)
• INFP Myers Briggs Type

Support and Connect with Andi!

• Visit www.truebluequilts.com 
• Subscribe to True Blue Quilts on YouTube 
• Listen to Quilting on the Side
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Spotify
• Like True Blue Quilts on Facebook
• Follow True Blue Quilts on Instagram

Pop Culture:

• The Breakfast Club
• Star Wars
• Star Trek
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Shrek

Resources:

• Loss, Grief and a Blanket by Dr. Lori Hofmann
• Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige
• Once More, With Feeling: Partnering with Learners to Re-see the College Experience Through Metaphor and Sensory Language by Taran Cardone
• Foundations of Meaning: Primary Metaphors and

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Shownotes

Memes: 

• The "This is Fine" Meme - "So meme that I chose is the meme of this dog sitting at a table with his coffee, just kind of casually sitting there and then behind him is engulfed in flames, right? And so that's the one side of things. And he's just kind of.  And for those of you who might not be able to see or listening to the podcast, I just made it kind of like a aloof face facial expression, I would say. And then the other side is a little smiling dog that says with the caption bubble, this is fine."

Join our Facebook group to be part of the conversation and view the meme for this episode or you can follow us on Instagram @memesmetaphorsandmagic. Learn more about your personal year number with this free resource!

Metaphors:

• MAXIMIZING SOMETHING IS POLISHING A PEARL.
• TWITTER/X IS A DUMPSTER FIRE. (Shoutout to our earlier episode with Dr. Shamika Karikari!)
• THE DOG IN THE "THIS IS FINE" MEME IS US TRYING TO SEEM FINE WHEN SOMEONE ASKS US HOW WE'RE DOING.
• FINDING AND EXPRESSING YOUR THOUGHTS IS CRACKING AN EGG.
• THE LIFE CYCLE OF A TREE IS THE LIFE CYCLE OF A HUMAN BEING.
• Underlying, or primary, metaphors:
  • PROCESSES ARE LIVING FORCES.
  • THE NECESSARY MATERIAL FOR A PROCESS IS FOOD. 
  • CHANGE IS MOTION.
  • THE EXPERIENCE OF TIME IS OUR OWN MOTION ALONG A PATH.
  • TIME PERIODS ARE CONTAINERS.
  • ACTIVITY IS LIFE. (INACTIVITY IS DEATH.)
  • CONSIDERING IS WEIGHING.

Magic:

• 7 Lifepath Number (Numerology)
• 3 Soul Urge Number (Numerology)
• Learner® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Restorative® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Maximizer® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Intellection® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Achiever® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Developer® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Scorpio (Astrology)
• ENFJ Myers Briggs Type

Pop Culture:

• On Fire webcomic strip by Casey Green, which includes the This is Fine meme (Merch available on their website!)
• Hannah Montana

Resources:

• Mental Health First Aid Training (Shoutout to when we first discussed this training with Stephen Henninger in an earlier episode!)
• The Introvert Advantage: How Quiet People Can Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marci Olsen Laney 
• Serenity Prayer
• Once More, With Feeling: Partnering with Learners to Re-see the College Experience Through Metaphor and Sensory Language by Taran Cardone
• Foundations of Meaning: Primary Metaphors and Primary Scenes by Joseph Grady 

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Shownotes

Memes: 

• Beyonce Sipping Meme - "It's the meme where Beyoncé is kind of glancing at the crowd as if she walked into a conversation and she's sipping on a drink. Let's say it's a Sprite or Slurpee or something. And then she kind of gives this odd look of like, "This is really none of my business." And she walks away. That's the meme in a nutshell. She's got on a hoodie, a black hoodie. So you can see that she really did just walk in and kind of turn and she's like, 'Forget this.'"

Join our Facebook group to be part of the conversation and view the meme for this episode or you can follow us on Instagram @memesmetaphorsandmagic. Learn more about your personal year number with this free resource!

Metaphors:

• FINDING THE RIGHT MEME IS LIKE FINDING THE RIGHT HALLMARK CARD.
• HAVING THE RIGHT MEME TO MAKE THE POINT YOU WANT TO MAKE IS LANDING THE PLANE.
• YOUR PLANTS' HEALTH AND WELL-BEING ARE YOUR OWN HEALTH AND WELL-BEING.
• LIFE IS A JOURNEY.
• Underlying, or primary, metaphors:
  • PROCESSES ARE LIVING FORCES.
  • THE NECESSARY MATERIALS FOR A PROCESS IS FOOD.
  • CONSIDERING IS WEIGHING.
  • CIRCUMSTANCES ARE WEATHER.
  • PURPOSES ARE DESTINATIONS.
  • MEANS ARE PATHS.
  • ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION.

Magic:

• 1 Lifepath Number (Numerology)
• 9 Expression Number (Numerology)
• Futuristic® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Individualization® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Strategic® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
• Capricorn Sun Sign (Astrology) 
• INTJ (Myers Briggs Type Indicator)

Support and Connect with Sienna!

• Read Sienna's book chapters!
  • The Table: Stories from Black Women in Student Affairs,  https://www.amazon.com/Table-Stories-Black-Student-Affairs-ebook/dp/B08CYCZVGN
  • Navigating COVID-19: Perspectives and Strategies from Women of Color in Academia https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35613-1_16
  • Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices. https://styluspub.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781945459290/Anti-Racist-Community-Engagement
• Find Sienna on Threads @ssabdulahad
• Follow Sienna on Instagram

Pop Culture:

• The Godfather

Resources:

• Truth Initiative: Inspiring Lives Free from Smoking, Vaping & Nicotine
• The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon
• Metaphors: A Practical Introduction, 2nd Edition by Zoltan Kovecses
• Once More, With Feeling: Partnering with Learners to Re-see the College Experience Through Metaphor and Sensory Language by Taran Cardone
• Foundations of Meaning: Primary Metaphors and Primary Scenes by Joseph Grady

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Memes: 

• Stay Away From Negative People Quote Meme "Beware of negative people. They always have a problem for every solution." - Albert Einstein (Maybe? The internet attributes this quote to several people.)
• It Isn't the End Quote Meme - "Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out yet, then it isn't the end." - Unknown

Join our Facebook group to be part of the conversation and view the meme for this episode or you can follow us on Instagram @memesmetaphorsandmagic. Learn more about your personal year number with this free resource!

Metaphors:

• "LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES..." - Mrs. Gump in Forrest Gump
  (Sound familiar? Revisit this metaphor in Episode 2 with Matt Kwiatkowski on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!)
• LIFE IS A JOURNEY. 
• Underlying, or primary, metaphors:
  • PURPOSES ARE DESTINATIONS.
  • MEANS ARE PATHS.
  • ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION.
  • (LOGICAL) ORGANIZATION IS PHYSICAL STRUCTURE.
  • INTERRELATEDNESS IS PHYSICAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS.
  • IMPORTANT IS CENTRAL.
  • ASSISTANCE IS SUPPORT.

Magic:

• 8 Expression Number (Numerology)
• 11 Lifepath Number (Numerology)
• 3 Soul Urge Number (Numerology)
• Leo Sun Sign (Astrology)

Support and Connect with Tyrone!

• Follow Tyrone on Instagram @tyrussell365
• Connect with Tyrone on LinkedIn
• Visit Lehigh Valley Faces at FacesINT.com
• Visit Cleveland School of Cannabis at CSCSchools.edu (web address changed since the conversation after they became accredited)

Pop Culture:

• Ali Abdaal

Resources:

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
• My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
• Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown
• A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson
• Once More, With Feeling: Partnering with Learners to Re-see the College Experience Through Metaphor and Sensory Language by Taran Cardone
• Foundations of Meaning: Primary Metaphors and Primary Scenes by Joseph Grady