Monday night I was gchatting with Batshua and she asked:How do you feel about prayer beads?
I am drooling at them.
I already have two sets and am not buying more.
But this woman does lovely prayer beads for … pretty much anyone.
I'm not much of a prayer beads person myself, but I browsed and we had this conversation:me: I keep looking at the Jewish ( Read more... )

I don't request anyone's queer cred ID when bringing them on for Pride Interfaith -- so it's extra-bonus to find out that someone is in fact queer on MULTIPLE dimensions ( Read more... )

I felt more awake when my 7am alarm went off this morning than when it did yesterday -- having gone to bed ~9pm as opposed to ~midnight ( Read more... )

"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy."
-mylittleredgirl [ more info]
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." --Anne Lamott

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I have been spending lots of time on Tumblr in recent days, and this might be relevant to some of your interests: mountain goats singing the mountain goats

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"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy."
-mylittleredgirl [ more info]
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. And they that dwell in the land of the shadow of ( Read more... )

Huh, today was weirdly relaxing. I'd accidentally turned my 5:30am alarm ON when I re-set it, and I never fell back into solid sleep after that, but I feel like I got a good amount of sleep. I worked on "overdue" posts and didn't feel crunched for time (I tend to feel like I need to have an open block of umpteen hours in order to get anything ( Read more... )

The other day I was thinking, "What happened to my vacation?" -- and then I remembered that I was sleeping ~12hrs/most days and various things involved travel time and etc. This has been a way less productive vacation than I would have ideally liked for it to be -- I know I'm never gonna have as productive a break as I "plan" to, but I still feel ( Read more... )

Hey, remember when I said:While the readings of the Last Supper story that accompany Communion are very powerful, the actual partaking of Communion is really not powerful for me. I think in part because the food is so insubstantial. I have long wished that we had pita bread or something evoking the unleavened Passover bread instead of regular ( Read more... )

At the gym this morning, after working out, I was changing out of my gym clothes and into a towel to shower ... and I felt like I was flaunting the fact that I had smooth underarms/legs; and I felt very weird, like this is not how my body is usually, there is something off here. I've talked before [e.g., here and here] about the fact that I prefer ( Read more... )

I arrived at Thursday morning prayer and took off my hoodie. Joan boggled, because I was wearing a tank top. I was going to the gym afterward ( Read more... )