Discipline for doing daily journaling, it turns out, is something I don't have. I have, instead, occasional bouts of intention and follow through, followed by long spans of distracted spending of my time on other things ( Read more... )

I think collaborative writing has ruined me. Or maybe I'm not really a writer. I mean, I say I love to write, but I have no discipline, and I never finish my stories, and I have a really hard time making myself just sit down and write unless I'm writing with someone else ( Read more... )

I've always looked at New Years Resolutions as basically culturally sanctioned opportunities for failure and guilt. Ways you set yourself up to not live up to your own and other people's expectations ( Read more... )

( Nezu has some serious real world problems pending and is dealing with them like a spoiled child )

Today I'm in a hurry. Sort of. Momo is here to visit and see the play, which is awesome. And I have a brush up rehearsal tonight, and shows tomorrow and Saturday. We have the show pretty much sold out, and we got a good review in today's Bay Times, although they pretty much didn't say anything of substance. But they said go see it, so that's good. ( Read more... )

One of the benefits of working on the play in San Francisco is the wonderful group of new people I have added to my life. I can honestly say I have affection for every one of the cast and crew, and my life is vastly enriched by them. And one of those people, the actor playing Myrrh, the role I played a year ago, is starting an Artist's Way group, ( Read more... )

Let's try that again ( Read more... )

What was I thinking? No, really ( Read more... )

I learned the word cyclothymic from the King Crimson song Three of a Perfect Pair. Specifically from the lyric
He has his contradicting views
She has her cyclothymic moods
They make a study in despair
Three of a perfect pair
It's an awesome word. Evidently it has a clinical definition, something akin to bipolar disorder, only less extreme ( Read more... )

In church on Sunday Rev Terri's topic was Lent. One of the things about a Metropolitan Community Church - we're diverse. At my church just about everyone is some version of LGBTQ, and we all came from different faith backgrounds, so there's a number of former Catholics and Episcopals to whom Lent is something other than that time between Mardi Gras ( Read more... )