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Being
I'm trying to give more emphasis to being the beloved. By "being" I mean taking my foot of the accelerator at times to be rather than do, not that easy after being enculturated in a society which applauds doing. By "beloved" I mean intentionally acknowledging the connection between God and I. Acknowledging also that this connection has been ( Read more... ) -
My Fragmented Life
Sometimes when I look back it seems like my life became fragmented. What I mean is, it's like there is a huge rift between life before and life after. Life before I was able-bodied. Physically, at least, I was normal. Life after became explanations starting with, "I know it's bizarre, but I can't do that." This might sound elitist in an odd way, ( Read more... ) -
The Foundation
Life is a pretty full on experience. I don't know about you but there are times I try and imagine the future. Then, BAAM! My mum is diagnosed with cancer (end of 2004). That wasn't in any of my imagined futures. There's an identity adjustment. Mum becomes mother, wife, sister and cancer patient. I become a support person for someone with cancer. ( Read more... ) -
Castles
It seems we spend a lot of our time and energy trying to be something else thinner, smarter, louder, more serious, more fun, quieter, less smart, bigger, richer... I'm all for self-improvement, but I'm not so sure the energy expenditure is always worth it.
Sometimes I think it's like we build castles. For some people their castle is their body. For ( Read more... ) -
A Place for Emotions
I'm doing an assignment on cognitive-behavioural therapy. One of the main things behind CBT is that our bad feelings come from the thoughts we think, perhaps subconsciously. They use the term automatic thoughts or self-talk. If those thoughts are somehow inaccurate (like not the full story, an over-generalisation, filtering out evidence for the ( Read more... ) -
I'm Blue
If I go to bed this early will I get to sleep? Hmmm ( Read more... ) -
Dear Misunderstood
Here’s to the quiet folks, the kind folks, the ones who get left out.
It takes a kind of complexity to understand and know other people. It’s a kind of complexity that is hard to understand and know.Here’s to the misunderstood and unknown.
You out the rich people, the beautiful people. Many of you are my friends. -
Update By Speech
So much for getting back to the computer. Now I’m nervous about RSI. So I’m trying speech recognition. It is expecting an American accent, but of course there is not one American accent. This works in my favour. When it won’t recognize a word I attempt an American accent. I’m not much of a mimicker ( Read more... ) -
Things Said
Now that I've moved I should be able to appear here more regularly. I can stay up late at night without keeping flatmates awake (or stressing that I am), and I don't need to stress that I'm holding up the phone line ( Read more... )