Gardening Metaphor   Þ

Entailments include
    To grow something by:
Preparing the ground,    Planting seeds,
Caring,                           Weeding,
Fertilizing,                      Watering,
Pruning,                         Thinning,
Seasonal dormancy,     Sprouting back
Thriving, flowering, fruitful vs. drooping

Sports or Contest Metaphor   Þ

Entailments include
    To win the game by:
Playing by an agreed set of known rules.
Deviations from the rules are “fouls”.
Penalties (not punishments) keep parity.
Each team given fair chance,
Players play fairly, take turns.
Each game separate with start and end.
Special relationships within game.
Logic, strategies & sequences.
Players showing greatest skills are honored.
Teams that coordinate are better.
Records kept, scores tallied.
Aggression ritualized, channeled.
Win / lose / draw.

Criminal Justice Metaphor   Þ

Entailments include
   To place blame or responsibility for an event
    and determine an appropriate response by:
Describing the event,     Identifying suspect(s),
Establishing the possibility suspect(s) is responsible,
Following accepted procedures, Developing a case,      
Collecting, analyzing evidence,       
Making logical arguments that account for facts,
Destroying defenses or alternate explanations,
Convincing impartial persons,
Choosing appropriate response to the event.
Found guilty & punished vs. innocent & set free.

War Metaphor   Þ

Entailments include
    Respond to Threat, Gain territory and control:
Fundamental interests threatened by evil-doer,
Their ways totally incompatible with our ways,
Peril increases with time,  They are merciless,
Complete victory, no compromise, no negotiating,
Total mobilization and commitment, Highest priority,
Target any and all aspects of enemy,
Transforming as necessary, Ends justify means,
Being ruthless, Forgetting fairness,
Doing whatever needs to be done,
Moving in opposing directions,
Searching, Intercepting, Surrounding, Attacking,
Retaliating, Defending, Shooting, Being target,
Digging in, Exploding, Occupying territory,
Cutting supply lines, Destroying means of warfare,
Demoralizing, Retreating, Surrendering,
Capturing, Liberating, Fortifying, Destroying,
Battles won, Battles lost, War as a series of battles,
Take any risk, sacrifice money, family, home, life.
Win vs. truce vs. lose.

Common Journey Metaphor   Þ

Entailments include
    Voyage or passage made by:

Steps towards a destination,
Planning, Preparing, Supplying,
Leaving home, Eventually returning,
Learning new customs,
Various modes of transportation,
Detours, Delays, Alternate routes,
Forks in the road, Evaluating choices,
Keeping on track,
Cooperation in travel,
Overcoming obstacles,
Success of one = success of all

Japanese Household “ie”   Þ

Entailments include:
    To ensure continuity, succession:
No beginning or end.
Relationships merged with household.
Seek acceptance and dependency.
Perpetual obligations, involvement.
Sacrifice for the greater whole.
Harmony (over abilities or skills).

Chemistry Metaphor   Þ

Entailments include:
    Change produced through:
Precipitating factors,
Chemical reactions,
Dissolving dense, hard elements,
Introducing a catalyst,

Preparing solutions.

Genetics Metaphor   Þ

Entailments include:

   Building blocks of human being:

Come from birth,

Predetermined, can’t be changed,

Evolved from being more fit, dominant,

Genes survive beyond death of individual,

Imprinted at the most basic, cellular level,

The heart of the matter,

Nature over nurture,

Prevail over learning, experience, free will,

Continuity & improvement vs. extinction.

Building Construction Metaphor   Þ

Entailments include:
    To put together something solid:
Build on firm ground,
Construct stable foundations,
Make sure it is well structured,

It lasts vs. it crumbles.

Gambling Metaphor   Þ

Entailments include:
    Gaining something valuable by:
Knowing the odds,
Having a strong hand,
Taking chances,
Making good bets,
Not tipping your hand,
Having something up your sleeve,

Come out on top vs. bottom, winner vs. loser.

A Mom & a Dad starting to negotiate a divorce:

Gardening Metaphor

Common Journey Metaphor

Game/Sport Metaphor

Mom:  “The kids need me at home.  There’s so much I have to do to have food in the house and to get them to their activities.  And now so much pressure on me about money, being a single parent…”

Just providing the basic nourishment must keep you busy.

Sometimes you need to cut back to promote growth.

A lot of growing happens when you are not in the garden.

You’re both on the same train, but in different cars.

Although each of you got on at different stations, you will arrive at the destination at the same time.

To make this work we need to play by the rules.

Each side can take time out.

You’ll have your turn to call the shots.

Hand off any time.

Dad:  “Let’s get on with the divorce, splitting up stuff, deciding on the parenting schedule…”

You’ll be harvesting the results for years of what you’re doing now.

For what you want to grow you will need to prepare the ground in a certain way.

You want to look down the highway, but we haven’t gotten out of the driveway yet.

Will we plan the general direction, or map out every fork in the road?

Are you on the same team with the same game plan?

You have played this game so many times already that you anticipate each other’s moves.