I love it when it gets brutally cold and crisp like this. I feel like a different person. I feel more adventurous; more rugged and yet still my always-thinking, always-observing self. It's really envigorating to feel both sides of that spectrum in that manner, really. It got me thinking (thinking something greatly enhanced by the cold; myself all bundled up on my patio with two white scarves and a red hat, writing all my ideas frantically in hope that something powerful will come of it)

Balance is truly the highest of aspirations. I could go on forever about balance and on so many nuances of it. One aspect of balance that would be particularly wonderful if achieved would be the balance between thoughts/ideas and actions/force. In a human being, these are possible to combine, but almost impossible to really balance. That is okay. What would really be great is if our society could learn to value people of action and people of ideas equally. It's usually the extroverts that are valued most. In a culture where one kind of mind is valued over another, and the other kind of mind is looked down upon, it breeds grief and envy in those who don't have the preferred mind. The introverts are labelled insane, when it's this sort of functioning that drives them to that point!
I just think it would be so easy if the internal ones would stop looking at the external as starchy-shirted mechanical workhorses and if the external ones stopped looking at the internal ones as over-complicated, immature recluses. If we could work hand in hand, how smooth things would go...