Kinds of Vegetables
You start the car, put it in drive, and suddenly realize as if waking from a spell that you just arrived and parked the car. So preoccupied by some thought or concern, you now don't remember the driving. But how about this one: we are doing some handiwork, washing dishes or some other absorbing activity, when all the while talking to ourselves without ever realizing it.
Aphorism
Corey Anton is an award-winning teacher and author of Selfhood and Authenticity (2001), which won the Media Ecology Association's 2004 Erving Goffman Award.