Habits are powerful, and that is both good and bad. They enable us to function efficiently, but they also reduce present-moment awareness and reduce our ability to make creative decisions. Ironically, breaking a habit often involves (indeed, requires) forming a new one.
When I was a graduate student, one professor, who eagerly embraced new-at-the-time participation of students in the class by video conference, said that he would try any change of lecture format just to get away from the stereotypical classroom routine.
I am also using the rides as an opportunity to practice iPhone-photography. Today, I stopped by the Cattle Point, a spot that made me fall in love with Victoria when I first visited it many years ago. The weather was beautiful, but the light was too harsh to make good photos. Here are a couple of shots, post-processed in the app called Snapspeed, while I was drinking coffee at the Hide and Seek Cafe, which I chose precisely because I’ve never been there before. The coffee, by the way, was excellent.
