I love a habit. I adore a routine. Doing things in a certain order, or certain time, or certain way. Over and over. I love the dependability. I love the resonance, the echo, the beat. I love the surprising power. Layering one small movement over another and another until the tiniest action builds itself into a...
There are a lot of support needs in life. That's great. We all need and help each other. What's not great is when the support needs turn you into support staff. The needs take all your time. They come first in the priority list. And your core activities, the things that are you and that you do for yourself, get...
Have you noticed there are a lot of dumb little decisions to make? Have you also noticed that most of these decisions, while dumb, are not necessarily easy? There’s not an obvious answer. Sometimes there’s an obvious “I should” feeling, but I have a heavy distrust of shoulds. So I’ve been using this little matrix....
I did some of what I wanted to do and completely missed on other things. This was a nice focus for the month.
Summer reading: Escapism served hot and fresh. Now I’m off to buy myself a hot and fresh personal pan pizza because baby, I earned it.
Let there be lapsesWeeds in the garden, unswept porches,A walk never taken,A flower unnoticed,Missed bill, missed text, missed appointment.
When little trends roll around the blogging world that I’m not into, I ignore them. People get to do things. I don’t need to be part of it. I can put my attention elsewhere. I don’t need to express my opinion of everything. I am breaking that personal rule because this trend has spread from the blogging world to the...
This is very simple but sometimes the simplest changes work really well.
A week notes addendum with an actual update, maybe.
My therapist said humor is a healthy coping mechanism as long as I can also honestly acknowledge my real feelings.
Lots of driving. I am made of iced coffee and beef jerky. The highway is life.
I’ve been slowly sorting through and cleaning up my disorganized collection of notes. I came across one from a few years ago when I was reading Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown. This quote in particular keeps ringing ringing ringing in my head:
