If I hadn't just been very sick, this morning would've found me clearing out the garden beds for spring. There's snow on the ground, sure, but the weather is delicious. Spring returns! It doesn't surprise me that so many religions have rituals around this time of rebirth; after a snowbound winter, it really does feel miraculous. And like a surprise ( Read more... )

Do you make resolutions or set goals for the year at some point each year? And if so, what do you or the world gain from that process ( Read more... )

This thing came up just as I've been thinking about seriousness, so I share it with you: practice the playfulness of the universe.

Specifically...
1) Describe the 5 areas of your personal inquiry that feel the most serious ( Read more... )

A TWOP recap of a True Blood episode I haven't yet seen offered me exactly the perspective I needed tonight.

I love this culture. This living in a place and time where people root out the allegory in what could be simple melodramatic entertainment.

This is absurd to be sad about. I have (had) an old Canon Elph from like 2002. It's exactly the size of my hand. And sure, I suppose it was wildly outdated (getting what at the time was an astonishing 4MP in such a tiny camera). It was a gorgeous little piece of design - I actually once used it to photograph itself, sitting in MOMA's "everyday ( Read more... )

My self-imposed coaching assignment for this week is to try out a daily spiritual/connectedness/whatever you want to call it practice that works for me. It's shaping into a small, simple collection of physical acts (being on the porch and the air is a big one, as is the pure physical practice of morning warmup), a moving but seated meditation that' ( Read more... )

Tell me a line you like to read, look at, sing, or think about when the ridiculousness of a day of shitty things finally wears off and you just want to cry.

Hey! Apparently I'm painting again [See user icon on this post. My style continues in a primary-school expressionist wanky self-portrait vein, as you'll see. It's the next big thing ( Read more... )

You kids are the best hug delivery service evah. I feel better already.

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I feel like everyone loves me today ( Read more... )