Ponderings of a Potted Plant

   Blokus: a game of strategy, chance and challenge               a game that will change your life Goal of the game: To get all your pieces on the board first Challenge of game:           1. Your pieces must only touch at their corners. Your pieces must touch.           2. You are not the only one playing. I had no experience in different strategies when I started the game. It seemed to me that the safest thing to do to get all my blocks on the board was to build myself a little home on the board. I made a wall around what I thought was enough space and defended my territory. Whenever another player tried to enter into my space, I would block them by using a piece that would cover all their corners. As the game went on, I ran in to a challenge. There were lots of holes in my allotted territory, but my pieces could not fit because they were only allowed to touch e...

     I believe most people use the words to describe themselves as traveling nomads, chameleons, or invisible immigrants. I found another great descriptive word to use: a potted plant.  What is a potted plant? A potted plant is different from most plants for the simple reason that it is in a pot. It isn't rooted in the ground. It moves its location if necessary.  It moves from its seat by the window,  to the warm outdoors, to the shady porch, to a friendly place by a post next to other plants.  But that is just the outside life of a potted plant. What is a Potted Plant? Imagine a potted sunflower in a flower garden full of black-eyed-Susan's. You will probably see the sunflower sticking up comfortably (or uncomfortably) among the colorful array of flowers vastly different than its own thick, tall stem. It is a like traveling nomad moving from flower garden to flower garden. It still needs the sun and water as all the flowers in the garden. It still en...