The first day in a new place. Where to get food? How to organize time? What to do first? Who are these others? How to fit in? Mostly, how to fit into this kitchen. Holy closet! (I am writing in the WordPress app for Ipad and I am having a little fit with inserting pics, … Continue reading The Bed Is Bigger Than The Kitchen
Category: Reading
Sanibel Bound
Tomorrow we go to Sanibel Island, Florida. Never been there. It's supposed to have good shells. I am looking forward to sitting under an umbrella, my toes in the sand, the sound of the surf in my ears, and reading voraciously, and then staring out at the horizon with equal absorption. I am looking forward … Continue reading Sanibel Bound
Blessing the Space
There has been a frost warning the last 2 nights. I wore a jacket into the studio this morning and felt happy that I didn't have any plans to go fishing today with G and her father. (Brrrrr....) (As it turned out it was a beautiful day for fishing and they caught 5 trout.) The … Continue reading Blessing the Space
Reading
I often catch myself wishing I could talk to someone who reads the same kinds of books I read: non-fiction, self-development, new business paradigm-books. Also, books about the latest in neuroscience or the positive psychology movement, or mindfulness, or the place where spirituality and technology meet. Nobody I know reads those kinds of books. Nobody … Continue reading Reading
Time Warrior
I started reading Time Warrior by Steve Chandler this morning. It's all about hacking time to avoid procrastination. The hack is this: forget about linear time. There's no line of time extending into the future like a receding perspective line, and there's also no line running back into the past either. It's all just a … Continue reading Time Warrior
This Analog Life
Woke up to a power outage this morning. No lights, no heat, but fortunately we have a gas stove and had the means to cook, and we had water. Cobbled together some oatmeal in the dark, but didn’t risk taking showers. G walked the dog and went to the office where there was power. I … Continue reading This Analog Life
Nothing to do, nowhere to go.
I woke up this morning and looked at my calendar on my phone and there was nothing there. No commitments, no place I had to be, or go. Same thing tomorrow. 2 days in a row of blessed nothing. So I stayed in my pajamas. I ate cinnamon toast, 2 cups of Ethiopean Yurgacheffe, a … Continue reading Nothing to do, nowhere to go.
A Book Snob Finds Love On the Bestseller List
This year I set a goal to read a book a month, which seems pretty wimpy considering that I used to read a book a week in my college and grad school years. But the thing about reading now, as opposed to then, is that now I am reading for me, for my own edification, … Continue reading A Book Snob Finds Love On the Bestseller List
The Return to Interiority
Even though I get melancholy when the season changes from summer to fall, and even more so when it changes from fall to winter, I have to admit that I really do love the return to interiority. I just read a piece in Elephant Journal by a woman who went to a retreat at Kripalu … Continue reading The Return to Interiority
Fiscal Integration
Today I finished my March book with a half a month to spare. (Wo. All this no-Facebooking is paying off in increased reading time, just as I suspected it would.) My new routine has me coming down in the morning, checking my email, then reading the blogs I subscribe to on Google Reader, and then … Continue reading Fiscal Integration
Inspiration Location 