Thinking in Groovy

I’m currently reading Programming Groovy and Groovy Recipes to hone my Groovy skillz and I’ve come to a realization: my Grails apps and the several scripts I’ve written for work have been nothing more than a thin veneer of Groovy syntax over Java programming.  I’ve still been “thinking in Java” as I write code.  This is not necessarily a bad thing - I’m still able to write code that is *much* more syntactically simple (lists and strings are so much easier to work with in Groovy), but I’m not really writing true Groovy meta-programming code.  Venkat and Scott’s books are helping me down that path…maybe someday I’ll actually be “Thinking in Groovy”.