It's our annual retreat at my Quaker Meeting. This year's theme is Reboot. Reset. Restore, because of how *gestures widely* 2020 was ( Read more... )

It's not a secret that I really enjoy external validation. This has been part of my identity since I was a kid. While I do derive some satisfaction out of the things I do, I've always liked it better when I played to an audience. Music, writing, cooking, whatever, I never enjoyed it more than when I could share it with other people. Sure, I can ( Read more... )

Since I didn't post here much during the year, I guess maybe I should try to recap the last year a little bit, see what sticks out in my mind.

( Year in Review )

Wow. Three posts in as many days ( Read more... )

Contrary to what the title may lead you to believe, this is going to be a short post, in bullet-point form. These are thoughts that are rattling around in my head, and I want to put some of them down before I forget ( Read more... )

In no particular order, these are my hobbies:

Reading
Writing
Knitting
Playing video games
Futzing on the internet
Occasionally heading out for fishing/shooting/tramping in the woods

The problem? They are pretty much ALL mutually exclusive.

*siiiigh*

So very frustrating when there are so few hours in the day.

And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.I have found increasingly that I don't listen to music at home anymore. I don't watch that much television either, overall. I go through crazes in which I'll watch an entire TV series in one go, but overall apart from the computer I don't switch on any electronics at all ( Read more... )

I'm just thinking of all the things I'm letting slip by while I bury myself in work.

- writing
- gardening
- knitting
- cooking
- baking
- seeing friends
- seeing my parents
- being outside

I am being morose and mopey today. Hopefully I'll be in a better mood tomorrow.

I wonder what it is that makes people in Canada (or maybe North America? Or "white" industrialized nations, or something?) so very coy about discussing religion, especially if their religion is not "mainstream."

ai731 posted about her path in her other blog the other day, and mentioned that one of the problems with trying to suss out one's religious ( Read more... )

Oy. I arrived at the gym in time fore my appointment, only to be met with puzzled stares: turns out my appointment was yesterday. :::headdesk::: Agenda-checking fail. :P

Otherwise, there's not much to report so far today. The weather is glorious, I'm stuck at work, and things are chugging along.

bodhifox has been writing things that are making me think, ( Read more... )