Don't just live in the world
Self-development, posts where I think too introspectively.
This weekend I decided to put all Beatles albums into one playlist on Spotify – which was probably an unnecessary thing for me to do since Spotify probably already has that sort of thing ready and waiting, but I did it anyway. Yesterday I dropped the kid at a thing and I went off to …
I was walking down main street in our little town last week, towards the post office (the new post office – the old post office is a restaurant now, but a beautiful heritage building). My grandparents lived in this town for years when I was younger, I can’t remember exactly when – they moved around …
The thing I need the most right now is slow. I’m trying to work on drawing and sketching. I’m trying to get a handle on work. I’m getting ready to dive in to NaNoWriMo. The thing I need the most is to stop, breathe and slow down. Drawing class is about pieces and practice. Looking …
There is something very pleasing about sitting in a room as the sun slowly sets and everything gets slowly dimmer. Something about sitting on the deck when there’s a chill in the air and coffee in my cup. Getting to a point in a book when you just want to find out how it all …
It is now mid-October, 20 months since I left my office, expecting to be gone for two weeks, working from home while we waiting for this virus to pass by. I went in this summer for a day and there was my March 2020 calendar, still sitting there with all sorts of notes on it …
When I was born my Granny (dad’s mother) was 82. When she died I was 11. By the time I was old enough to remember her she wasn’t remembering much any more, she had Alzheimer’s. Most of the visits to her house involved my Dad telling her the same things over and over again, answering …
Coming out of election is like coming slowly back to the surface after being underwater. It’s disorienting, the journey to the surface exhausts you. After the 2008 election I had three weeks off and I feel ready to go back after that. One week to sleep, one week to catch up and come back to …
One of the things I’m trying to do on my vacation is a bit of mapping out and career planning. It turns out if you ask me where I want to be in five years I have no fucking idea. In my life I have, at least three times, been absolutely sure of what I …
It has been a hell of a two years. I was going to say hell of a year but then I realized, nope, it’s been two. Two years ago, beginning of September, I started this new job. I was on a year-long contract and we were going to have an election and a national convention, …