from the mouths of babes . lessons on new perspectives
Fresh sensibility.
It’s one of the things that kids do so very well. Whether it’s coloring outside of the lines or singing a song with the slightest lyrical alteration. Another gift they provide is saying words they’ve heard me or you say but offering them through the filter of their own hearing.
And so we have “insects.”
Don’t know what “insects” is? Well, it’s the perfumed stick that you burn when you meditate. Or wish to fill the home with a subtle and pleasant aroma. Or, if you are like me, that you light in your truck as you drive from single family home to condo to two-flat as you connect folks buying and selling Chicago real estate.
“Insects.” As I muse upon this tidbit of kid-lish I guess I tip my cards on my own verbal tendencies and intellectual synapses. “Insects” you see came up this morning as I sat in a home inspection of my buying client Steve of an Andersonville condo.
As Pete Neuman of Prairie Home Inspections went from A to Z with Steve from the common areas to the roof to the garage to the condo he inspected I typed the word inspects in my minds eye and couldn’t help but see a logical progression to “insects.”
The beauty of life, in one sense, is flexibility. At least this is what I tell myself each morning as I start the day doing yoga. Now I don’t claim to be a yogi of any sort, let alone a guru in any sense of the word. But I know enough that I greet the day with more vitality when I start it with a little salutation to the sun.
And aside from the physical stretching what I believe to be true a critical part of a person’s, a society’s and my own well being is the capacity to move beyond rigid classifications. Call it the “goose of Seuss” or “tran-slip-eration,” a little deviation from the norm is the necessary spice that adds flavor to the personal/social broth.
And after Pete finished another edifying fact-finding mission for another satisfied buying client of The Real Estate Lounge Chicago I was glad that the only “insects” I found were those named by my sons and waiting to burn peaceably in my truck and not those ixnayed by Orkin.
Questions about the home buying or home selling process? I would love to hear from you. Feel free to call Tom McCarey (that’s me) and my team (The Real Estate Lounge Chicago) any time at 773.848.9241.
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