I didn't write down or post my gratitudes last night, but I did speak them aloud when I was done my sitting practice. The ability to calm my mind still eludes me, but the practice of sitting in physical stillness for a few minutes every night before bed still seems a worthwhile thing to do, even if it's a constant battle to get the brain out of ( Read more... )

her: I sometimes wonder if processing through the monsters with the imagery of physical sensation was a poor choice... then I remember what it was like before I found that direction for it ( Read more... )

[Context: this exchange occured after a 24 hour period in which I had cornered someone into a lexicon-building discussion centred around one deceptively-simple-looking word that turned out to be a relatively serious struggle for him for most of a day to define and articulate effectively. After that portion of the discussion he accused me, not ( Read more... )

Her: sweetie, I gotta say...monogamy is enough work for me...I could not do what you are doing.

me: if it's any consolation, apparently *I* can't do what I'm doing, either :-P

Boudicea: Ah, beavers. Is there nothing they can't do ( Read more... )

matthew has a philosophy that i've always thought seemed prudent: "It's not a question of whether or not you can trust people; it's a question of what you trust them to do." sometimes, you can trust people implicitly, even if it's only trusting them to be true to their own natures in the face of repeated contentions that their natural behaviours ( Read more... )

matthew and i engaged the processes tonight, and covered some valuable ground.

( the value of the hypothetical )

melodramatic much??

this weekend was neither the best nor the worst of times; the highs were high, the lows were low, but no-one bled, no-one died, and in the end, i think we're all further ahead than we were on thursday. ( Read more... )

and it's not because i've got some east indian goddess fetish, either. ( pausing for some introspection )

... in more ways than one.

Main Entry: epiph·a·ny
Pronunciation: i-'pi-f&-nE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -nies

Etymology: Middle English epiphanie, from Middle French, from Late Latin epiphania, from Late Greek, plural, probably alteration of Greek epiphaneia: appearance, manifestation; from epiphainein to manifest, from epi- + ( Read more... )