Guess I'm on the wrong career path at age 53 ... (silly meme-ness)

Your result for Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test...

Naturalistic

41% Logical, 12% Spatial, 45% Linguistic, 29% Intrapersonal, 27% Interpersonal, 6% Musical, 4% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 71% Naturalistic!

"This area has to do with nature, nurturing and relating information to one's natural surroundings. Those with it are said to have greater sensitivity to nature and their place within it, the ability to nurture and grow things, and greater ease in caring for, taming and interacting with animals. They may also be able to discern changes in weather or similar fluctuations in their natural surroundings. They are also good at recognizing and classifying different species.

'Naturalists' learn best when the subject involves collecting and analyzing, or is closely related to something prominent in nature; they also don't enjoy learning unfamiliar or seemingly useless subjects with little or no connections to nature. It is advised that naturalistic learners would learn more through being outside or in a kinesthetic way.

Careers which suit those with this intelligence include scientists, naturalists, conservationists, gardeners and farmers." (Wikipedia)

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Now that I've talked to Samurai, I can post it here.

My Uncle Doug, my father's younger brother, died yesterday (there is a third brother, the youngest, but he has chosen to estrange himself from our family, and having met him, I am sadly grateful he is estranged). I got a call last night from a neighbor of Doug's wife (wife is profoundly hard of hearing and cannot use a phone, so she asked her to call me). Doug had the foresight to move two years ago into a retirement community so that if anything happened to him, there would be people to support his wife Beth.

They had no children.

The saddest part for me is that I had put off, put off, back-burnered, etc., etc. writing to them about our trip to Japan. Doug loved trains, and his passion was building model RR layouts both indoors and out, with entire villages, humorous little scenes with people in them, etc., and trains that ran around the tracks. He had "garden railroads" in Seattle that people (foreign visitors, especially, who subscribed to a garden railroad international newsletter that he edited) would want to visit. Sometimes an entire busload of people would pull up and want to see his layouts.

When we were in Japan, Samurai and I took many trains, and talked about how Doug would love this experience, and our photos. We wanted to buy him a model bullet train to add to his layout, and visited toy stores looking for one. We didn't find any. But in the airport as we prepared to head back to the U.S., we found a larger model, battery powered, that a child could control by remote control and race around the floor. We were in triumph at having found this! I could just imagine Doug playing with this toy in delight, and Beth grinning while rolling her eyes.

I had not yet sent it to him.

Friends, it's easy to put stuff like this on the back burner in favor of work deadlines, volunteer commitments, immediate family things (whether it is elementary school parent-teacher conferences or getting your child settled at college). Don't.

JUST DO IT. Now. What's more important?