There’s one more week until I dive into the Glen Workshop. One of my Glen-friends, with littles who do not come to Glen, has (I believe) begun an hour-by-hour countdown tracker. I’m beginning to fizz, myself… …and solidly daunted by All The Things I Planned to Finish Before Glen. It seemed so much more reasonable […]
So yeah, I could have chosen differently when I scooted back from the massage. (Besides the parts where I put on people-clothes and arranged a date with My Sweetie-!) I could have settled in to write something of import or depth. But at 4:45pm on a Friday afternoon, I instead chose to click on the […]
A was visiting this week. Happy birthday, Mom! she says.
I have led a day of outwardly-directed, list-clearing virtue: I exercised, ran my first tutorial (orientation) for a webmistress to replace me on our synod Presbyterian Women website, lunched at a new restaurant with my TWO lovely daughters—A is spending her vacation/long weekend with us—got acupunctured, spent more-but-fruitful time chasing the difficulties my file restoration […]
The yard had to be mowed again this morning. We’ve arrived at Peak Grass, without the balancing effects of Peak Heat, so the blades double in size every week. When it gets hotter, the grass will slow down (just like people!), but we’re not there yet. So after I finished my swim (thanks, Coach Paul!) […]
Some of the folks who are providing references for grad school for me shared what they sent the admissions committee. This is humbling and glorious—it’s seldom one can discover how one seems to other people. Asking them point-blank never seems to yield results; I’ve tried on multiple occasions. At this stage in the game that […]
Many files have arrived from ARTHUR’s still-running disk. But the ones from end of May through July 10 are still to come. On the other hand, most of the applications have been installed anew. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll get to try something less consuming. Or differently consuming-!
No wit today. Instead, my attention and my bandwidth are consumed with: Edward, poor baby, is back from the PC-hospital with a whole new disk. So now we’re back to Edward-building Square One. To soothe my, um, chagrin, I’ve been interspersing this work and laundry with Queer Eye catch-up. Shoulda done that last time. Sweetens […]
At 1:30am, I had two beautiful ideas I wanted to write about. But it was the middle of the night, I soothingly told my brain (as if it were a toddler), and we don’t write at 1:30am. We sleep. At first-whistle-blow, the podcasts I was listening to while mowing mentioned a few things I wanted […]
My friend Leon wrote an intriguing blog post today, musing about what listening to God might be—might always have been—about. He notes, “I’ve been trying to surrender my outcomes to God, to trust that God knows what God is doing, and in the midst of that struggle I know I was listening more intently.” Me […]
