Before 2016, much of my car-time involved taking a girl or two to an activity. For me relaxing in the car means talking about whatever’s on my mind. Or her mind, or whomever else’s mind. My nest is empty; no one’s in my car. But my musing doesn’t quit just because of that. So now you’re the one “Driving With Daughters!”
By “another,” I mean “not a labyrinth.” I love labyrinth meditation. But that’s not what I’m talking about now. I mowed our lawn tonight. It’s the second time I’ve ever mowed a lawn. It’s more than thirty years since I first asked to mow a lawn (yard work made more money than babysitting in the […]
Today I found a happy pocket of flow during, of all things, post-building for another site I’m neglec^H^H^H^H^H^H managing. I learned something quite nifty for them, which I’m going to turn around and deploy here. Because it’s 9:22pm. And earlier today I’d considered a new 9pm go-to-bedtime policy. But I’m willing to: What is it […]
I read a book, Beautiful and Pointless, back in…let’s see…March of 2014, per the annotation in my notebook. Its subtitle is “A Guide to Modern Poetry,” though from what I remember the book did not take the tour-guide approach the title might imply. When I picked it up, I thought it might be a different […]
I hammered away at SFD #3 today…3b, at this point, because I wanted to save a copy of the frame I made yesterday prior to filling it in today. So I put many words onto digital paper. (And paper-paper, once I knocked off for the day.) I’m past 1700 of the words, in fact, which […]
Leadership, particularly women’s ways of leadership (h/t Sally Helgesen!), is one of my hobbies. I add that “women’s ways” rider because, while I steadily see women exercising their leadership skills in wonderful and subtle ways, I frequently have those same leaders push back at me that they are NOT leaders. Including the person who taught […]
So in current Girl Scouting, girls can earn meta-badges called (Leadership) Journeys. They take a topic from first introduction (Discover) out to community partners (Connect) and then into addressing a community gap through project-based service (Take Action). If a girl earns all three of the Journeys offered at her age level, she is entitled to […]
“How are you going to make your best of today?” Mike Goncalves during Creative Giant Show #82 Today? You mean: Make my best of being present in the moment? That’s today’s straightforward path: I’m attending two high school graduations, and given the logistics I’ve been “going to graduations” since 11:30am. I’m enjoying witnessing the girls […]
(2009-01-13) Did you ever get thanked for something you didn’t realize you’d done? An argument from the professedly rational against populist Evangelicals is their notion of tiny answered prayers. What earthly sense does it make for the All-Being Master of Time, Space, and Dimension to hand out unchipped manicures and unexpected green lights? This seems […]
Axiom of the Faithful: God, being omnipotent, leverages each of us within our circumstances to work God’s blessing in the world. That is, either God placed you where you are in order to do something specific with regard to your placement, or God works with where you dropped yourself and makes God-things happen. I vote […]
Jeremiah 20:(7) O Lord, you have enticed me, / and I was enticed; / you have overpowered me, / and you have prevailed. (9)If I say, “I will not mention him, / or speak any more in his name,” / then within me there is something like a burning fire / shut up in my […]
