Sunday, 10 July 2011

Holistic - Paddy

I just did a weird task to help out my father. I had to move a large plant from my dining room to my garden on a small trolley. Why? The plant in question, a swiss cheese plant, or Monstera deliciosa if you're middle class, had grown far to large and needed to be moved into an area in which my female parent could trim it back down to suitabel size for internal storage. I imagine none of you care about the tribulations of swiss cheese ownership and can't wait for me to move on to the proper subject of my blog. Well there isn't one. All I have to offer you is plants and maintence of them, if you are that upset/bored by this, you can look at this picture instead or go play games here. You can come back in a couple of minutes to finish and read the last couple of lines where I say good bye and what not.
Now, I know that only 3 lines previously I declared there was no second topic. I lied. My second topic is the word Holistic. Holistic according to google means:
ho·lis·tic
adjective /hōˈlistik/ 
  1. Characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole
  2. Characterized by the treatment of the whole person, taking into account mental and social factors, rather than just the physical symptoms of a disease

I am currently interested in this word as recently I watched the BBC adaptation of Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency starring Stephen Mangan. Keen readers will of course remember my previous reference to Dirk Gently in this blog. I intend to use the word holistic in more everyday circumstances and already slipped it into my history work.
Now to quote someone I'm sure "Until we meet again".

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