"Our reality is a living, flowing and growing reality, continually in movement but a universal concept of a descriptive kind can give us a stable point of entry for our inquiries into the diffusely organized nature of those otherwise unique ways of knowing that we exhibit in our movement around us in the world." These points, made by Shotter, had me thinking about MacCurdy and the way I tried to "write the details" about my grandmother. In doing the MacCurdy activity where I went back to my grandmother's house it pulled at all of these threads about my grandmother that helped me explore certain aspects of things I am currently struggling with. So I feel like this was the "concept of a descriptive kind" that helped create the "point of entry" that Gergen writes about. So I'm pretty interested in that activity and the subconcious thought the freewriting activity allowed the window into. Could I write about this for a research paper? There may not be enough material there, unless I examined other people's experience with this same activity and interviewed them to see if they had a similar experience and looked at that point of entry for them. For me, this activity had me looking at my role as a female in my family and how I identify myself as it compares with my mother and my grandmother. This stirred up a lot of feelings/thoughts. It would be interesting to see if others had a simliar type of experience with the activity or to examine other writing assignments that create that point of entry.