This isn't your Mother's Bananas Foster

 There are many aspects of distance learning that appeals to me, and has driven my interest in this major, and this career shift. I grew up rural, rural communities are limited in their connectivity, but it's getting better. I have interest in many things, much to a fault, it can be difficult to focus on one thing when another is tickling your interest senses at any given moment. Life can be haywire, we are adults now, and nap time is over, toss the Capri-sun in a trash, and button your lip, because it's gonna keep coming. When you can breath, and breath heavy, big, and take in the essence of all it afforded you, because it's a blessing and you are here. 

The thing I love about microlearning and open educational resources is I believe in our own way we do this on a daily basis. Now it may not be perfected, but will anything ever be perfect that is open. You'll always have extraneous content in a world accumulated by the masses, and the only filter is the most successful rises to the top. Do you Digg?

In the early years before Reddit, there was Digg, and socially collected site where users posted links to news, picture, memes, info, and more people that dug it, the higher it rose. Reddit tool this and broke it into subreddits, now you can focus your information in particular areas, this help one navigate focus and prevent cognitive overload. But there is still clutter. But if you think of this we often apply this aspect to about every aspect of our life. Need a new blender for Daiquiris this weekend? Lets see what the web says is best? Want a recipe? Wonder what America's Test Kitchen says of this Bananas Foster? What vehicle to buy? Best places to hit up while in Rome? Tangier? Don't even get me into Discogs. We always want the best, or well, the best we can afford. And why not? We work hard for our money, and it needs to last.

It never ceases, as we casually chatter amongst friends and curiosities arise. We seek out information, but this information we seek grows, and changes like one never ending game of telephone, and sometimes it does get off the rockers just that bad. But it can also make magic. The article references recipes how they change a grow, adapt maybe by the demands of the user's environment, maybe their pocket book, but it adapts. Maybe it's made better, maybe it's cheaper, maybe it's quicker. Either way it's different, and fits a demand. The higher the demand for the fix, the more it rises up the lines, the more attention it garners, and heaven help us if a influencer takes it. 

We are constantly microdosing knowledge, edging our curiosities here or there. Shifting like pine needles in the a Spring breeze, merrily, dancing to and fro at whatever wandering wonder we find ourselves exploring. This isn't you mother's Bananas Foster, no this molten piece of caramelized bananas would make your father see red, and grandma run to church. My god, did this come from Bobby Flay? It even has homemade vanilla sourced from some of the most isolated orchids in Mexico. Who is the manic monster that served them on pancakes from a food truck in Iowa? Surely, they were divine?

It's not all positive. What is if the shifter of what is good, what evolves, and what makes itself manifest isn't the recipe, isn't the knowledge but outside influences. What if the world best banana's foster is still in some mom's kitchen, or some dingy dive more know for bar fight and poor choice tattoos than the luxurious sweet sampled by the staff at closing time. What if the culinary explorer isn't a young attractive influencer but a humble, quiet retired individual, weary from a life in a modular cell, blotchy skin, and thinning hair? Will it get noticed? Will we ever notice it if it isn't served on a platter by Disney or Coca-Cola?