Often when I feel the itch to write, to coral my thoughts and focus on one topic I will typically choose one word that has been swirling around my head and write about it. Lately that word has been cooperation (or some similar version like cooperating and cooperative). The definition seems very straight forward, to operate together , so I will focus on those two words. When I hear the word operations I typically hear it in regards to business, military or other institutions. Serious things are happening typically involving resources of time, materials and money. The home itself becomes its own "operation" and the primary way all of us experience co-operation is at home. If co-operation is not happening in the home, the people are likely miserable. So the word operations to me means our lives outside of pure recreation. A much broader discussion is the co or together part of the definition. This means there are people involved other than yo...
Beware the extremes!