But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret… (Matthew 6:6) Yeah, the passage itself is about owning where you’re seeking your prayer’s reward—are you looking to God, or the crowd?—but it came to my mind for a totally different reason: When I […]
My A offered this to me sometime during her high school years; it’s been hanging above my desk ever since. I think it encapsulates the way she was feeling then (forever angry), the way she approaches the world (with a wry sense of humor), and the essential winsomeness she’s never been able to shake, even […]
Reification is a complex idea for when you treat something immaterial — like happiness, fear, or evil — as a material thing. This can be a way of making something concrete and easier to understand, like how a wedding ring is the reification of a couple’s love. However, reification is often considered a sign that […]
sure, you didn’t get enough sleep again. yes, it was nice that the hormone dose smoothed out the sleep you got, but I get it: still sleepy. we know you’ve had your morning session of iPhone solitaire. and here, back at the table with hot coffee: there’s Jeremiah to transcribe | meditation to consign silence […]
We have a tenant. A Western Screech Owl, I believe; not a very big creature, but pleased enough to have taken up residence. The local carpenter who made the house (a 2017 Christmas gift for My Sweetie) noted that there needed to be water nearby. Fresh water. And what about mosquitoes? I asked. Eh, if […]
Everything in your closet, or dresser, should be ready to wear.—a source that I can’t now recall While turning and pairing clean socks, I remembered reading this as a teen, in one of the several books I studied on fashion and style. Yes, I taught myself nearly everything from the printed word, though in hindsight […]
An inner pattern for people who collect within Enneagram 5 is to set (push?) direct experience away so they can reflect on it quietly. Like writing blog posts in their heads about what they’re doing. Or not-doing. In quiet, I narrate my life like it’s a documentary… which is not, as far as I’ve discerned, […]
(the tool just ate my prior 300 words. we’ll see whether I can do this again.) I didn’t use to give attention to this. I’ve known that the brain and the body support each other—viz. sleep has always been my non-negotiable—but like most US folk I know, I barrelled along as if they were loosely […]
So I’m tagging along behind, running some and walking fast and breathing hard as I try to get caught up again with my readings for class. (One book was due Friday; one and some is due on Tuesday.) Which means I couldn’t justify to myself the time to write out one of the handful of […]
