“You’re better equipped for this world than I am,” she said. “I’m always trying to chnage the world. You know how to live in it.”- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker
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- One woman's journey to right here.
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Latest learnings
September 30, 2009 – 11:16 am
Oh I am so uninspired today. So totally uninspired. Even the bright zinnias I bought at the farmer’s market did not enliven any creativity. But, ah! Farmer’s market! That’s because it is day 3 of my Eat Like an Adult effort. This is an attempt to stop getting deathly sick every 3 months. Hoping a [...]
as we are
September 29, 2009 – 4:34 pm
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. – Anais Nin worth hearing again
Honest & Scrappy
September 29, 2009 – 5:00 am
Wow, so Aidan of Ivy League Insecurities surprised me today by bequeathing The Honest Scrap Award. Cool. My first bloggy award! It’s an award for “honesty and sincerity” in blogging and I could not be more touched. Because, just as Aidan says, I strive to be honest and sincere and know that this is something [...]
Swine Flu By the Numbers
September 28, 2009 – 8:25 am
Number of days in bed: 5.5 Number of times I left the house in 5 days: 3 Number of books read: 2 (pathetically low, indicating what a mess I was) Number of naps taken per day: 2-3 Number of times I threw up from coughing so hard: 3 Highest fever: 99 (who knew?) Days without [...]
Sunday
September 27, 2009 – 3:37 pm
Frightening. Grace brought this photograph home from yesterday’s “rock star” party. I think she looks 16. Terrifying.Luckily Whit remains 4 and a total ham. Notice the bedhead, not remotely subdued by midday. We went to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (has been one of my very favorite books since childhood, and both G [...]
The greatness of little things
September 27, 2009 – 7:27 am
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others. – Kakuzo Okakura
Firestarter
September 26, 2009 – 6:40 pm
Today was a fascinating day, so full of thoughts and emotions that my head and heart are both full to overflowing right now. I spent the day at Aidan’s house with Danielle LaPorte and a fascinating, diverse group of 23 people (22 woman and 1 man). We started with introductions. Most people talked for 2-3 [...]
Choosing or Not Choosing? With grandmothers.
September 26, 2009 – 4:00 am
Maureen Dowd’s editorial, “Blue is the New Black,” is just the last in a series of articles I’ve read recently about declining female happiness. I find the topic depressing, of course, but I think it’s right on. Dowd’s final assertion that our plethora of choices may be responsible for our malaise is both suspiciously accurate [...]
The myth of balance
September 25, 2009 – 3:11 pm
Reading so much great stuff out there in the bloggy world today! I love this post called The Balance Myth, which highlights something I think about (and hear from others) all the time. People ask me all the time how I “do it” which always makes me laugh, as I think of all the things [...]
