See Your Home From Different Angles

We see our home from the same angle and the same light every time we look at it the same way. But what would it look like at a different time of day? From across the street? From down the block?

From an airplane?

I saw my old home, Lake Merritt, from the sky as I was leaving it. This is kind of like what it looked like:

And there was our weekly walk to the grocery store.

Reinforced experiences form templates in our heads — language layers, through which we see the world. These templates trick us into thinking we’re affecting our environment when we’re only going with the flow — like a fish, swimming furiously, believing her speed is solely due to her efforts and not the speed of the current with which she flows.