Fine is a lie. Fine means I don’t want to tell you how I’m doing, so let’s move it along, okay? How I am doing is none of your business.
Author: Kath Thompson
Writer, yoga teacher, lover of sunny days, long walks, good coffee, and stimulating conversations.
The Stuff I Loved in 2023
Every newspaper, magazine and online outlet is publishing their year-end The Best of in 2023 articles. I thought that would be fun to do here. So, I made a List of the Best Stuff I Loved in 2023.
Inspired By In November
I’ve been in a shame spiral all week about not posting last Thursday. It was my first missed deadline here. But it was Thanksgiving, and I had just returned from Portland, and I was tired and hadn’t been writing my 1K Words a Day, so I was lost.
A Parallel Reality Experience At The Airport
G helped a woman on our flight hoist her luggage into the overhead bin. Then, on the way out, that same woman trippped and fell flat on her face on the jetway at the cabin door. The man ahead of us rushed to her aid. Someone I know casually from Mansfield was on our flight. … Continue reading A Parallel Reality Experience At The Airport
The Yoga of Meatloaf
Yoga is trying to make a meatloaf and just make the damned meatloaf.
I Bought A Painting
When I look at paintings, I either resonate with them, or I don’t. I have an emotional reaction, or I don’t. Something intuitive awakens in me, or it doesn’t.
Inspired By In October
All my “Last Hundred Days of 2023” Projects bit the dust. I’m not doing any of them. Don’t know why. It’s a subject for further inquiry. In my journal. With my purple ink. Not now.
Ask Yourself These 10 Questions Everyday To Know Yourself Better.
Of everything I’ve written here on Inspiration Location in the past fourteen years, this post gets the most reads year after year.
Pronouns, ugh.
And can I just say here, because I can’t say it anywhere else: I don’t have a lot of patience with people’s pronouns when they are plural. I don’t mind switching from he to she or vice versa, but when she becomes they, I go into the land of confusion. I can’t help it. I am neurotypical.
The Season Of Sugar Is Upon Us
I love buttered noodles. And pie (especially pumpkin and especially for breakfast). And oatmeal raisin cookies. And root beer floats. And warm focaccia dipped in crushed garlic and olive oil.
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